Law firm leaders aren’t often thinking about their firms’ work in terms of routine tasks, but with payroll as the highest expense, investors will. In a working paper for the... read more →
Attorney Jonathan Wolf, writing for Above the Law, recounts a nonprofit board’s decision to reduce employees’ hours to 33.75 per week without any drop in salary or benefits. Last year,... read more →
End-of-year figures showed legal employment returning to the numbers it saw at the start of 2019. While this means that 2019's gains were essentially undone by pandemic losses, a 2.3%... read more →
Engineering/construction behemoth Bechtel will be adding junior lawyers to its team via alternative legal services provider (ALSP) Legal Innovators. The press release announcing the deal highlighted Legal Innovators' focus on... read more →
Even in-house roles are not immune to elimination, as paint supply company Benjamin Moore showed in November when it got rid of its entire legal department. Unlikely to become a... read more →