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Craig Levey is an employment law attorney with over 12 years of experience. He says there are often early signs of layoffs, which usually occur in the fall. Levey recommends [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes A real estate-focused law firm involved with some of the most high-profile developments in New York in recent years -- the World Trade Center, Essex Crossing [...]

Summary * Benefits of mentorship include networking, increased engagement and job satisfaction, enhanced growth and skill development. * Great mentors provide encouragement, actionable feedback and help their mentees build their [...]

Summary * There is a fundamental disconnect in the way law firms develop and support rainmakers and leaders. * The scarcity of firm resources (time, effort and money) amplifies a [...]

The pandemic has led to a phenomenon throughout the United States where workers at all levels are quitting their jobs. Many articles have been written in national publications about this [...]

While Lowenstein Sandler's attorneys and support staff were working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, the firm's leaders made a bold decision: They would not only renovate their 100,000-square-foot Manhattan office [...]

Heather Meeker sipped on a glass of Champagne as she deleted all her firm's required apps from her electronic devices. After 25 years as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at [...]

As the legal profession approaches both the halfway mark of 2018 and the 10-year anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers--which many say serves as a, if not the, defining [...]

The legal industry has seen its fair share of disruption from the coronavirus pandemic: Many law school graduates were -- and still are -- stuck in a state of limbo, [...]

The life of an attorney is defined by pressure and stress. For decades it's been common knowledge that people in the legal field struggle significantly more than other professionals with [...]

Are law firms invoking obscure contractual clauses to delay partners from moving to rival firms? Or does it just seem that way? When New York City intellectual property litigator Jayadeep [...]

Law firm associates and staff members apparently see their jobs as a classic good-news/bad-news scenario. On one hand, they're not as fearful about getting laid off as they were a [...]

Byline: Bernadette Starzee In the wake of last year's landmark tax law and amid a generally favorable business climate, there is potential for an economic boom in the Long Island [...]

It may not be the first word that comes to mind when thinking about lawyers, but trust is what matters when choosing the right employment law attorney. 'It's a personal [...]

LAW FIRMS HAVE A VERY EXPENSIVE TALENT PROBLEM: C PLAYERS. These are the associates who lack judgment, write poorly, miss critical issues or don't take ownership. Partners write off their [...]

Dramatic developments in the legal industry are leading to big changes in the ways law firms do business and structure themselves. The traditional lockstep model with high associate leverage and [...]

LAW FIRMS OF ALL SIZES face the problem of losing good associates after the firms have spent years of time and a great deal of money training them. Often, those [...]

LAW FIRMS, particularly larger firms, invest heavily in recruiting new associates--only to find that those associates often leave the firm within a few years before they are truly productive. The [...]

If the collective attorney growth--that is, the increase or decrease of the number of lawyers--at the nation's major law firms over the past year and a half could be measured [...]

GOOD LAW FIRM LEADERS recognize that their team is their greatest asset and that the success of both the leader and the firm is dependent upon that team. To get [...]

You love that your secretary Betty plows through lunch to get your letters done and out to the client, taking bites of her turkey on rye in between keystrokes. You [...]

Pinsent Masons, with the help of Stonewall's Diversity Champions' program, has created a policy on sexual orientation at the workplace. The law firm has also formed a lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) network that would contribute to development of policies and would support LGB staff. The business benefits from Pinsent's sexual orientation policies are also evaluated.

Eversheds could win a bonus for meeting workplace diversity targets that include having at least 25 percent of their partners to be female and 10 percent of its trainee intake to be from black and minority backgrounds. The firm is going to large universities to broaden their trainee intake and has established an internal diversity and inclusion committee.

An increasing number of clients and prospects want to see diversity in their law firms. More and more law students and lateral hires are attracted by inclusive environments and targeted [...]