The economy may be slowing, but billing rates continued to rise, according to information provided by 127 law firms that responded to billing musings submitted as part of the NLJ 250, The National Law Journal’s annual survey of the nation’s largest law firms.
Billings climbed by an average of 4.3%, 70.6% of firms increased billings this [...]
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Billing Rates Continue to Rise
Corporate Attorney - Job of the Day
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Job Title: Corporate Associate
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Mid-Level Corporate Associate
Pittsburgh office of national firm has an immediate opening for a corporate associate with a minimum of three years experience in mergers and acquisitions, federal and state securities law compliance and general corporate governance.
This opportunity offers immediate client contact and substantial client contact and responsibility. Article courtesy [...]
Singapore Licenses Six Western Law firms
Singapore has issued licenses for six western law firms to practice.
Previously, foreign firms could only advise clients via a joint venture with a local firm.
The firms receiving the new Qualifying Foreign Law Practice licenses are Clifford Chance, White & Case, Latham & Watkins, Allen & Overy, Norton Rose and Herbert Smith.
Law Minister K. Shanmugam estimated [...]
Career opportunity of the Day - Banking Associate
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Job Title: Banking Associate
Location: New York, NY
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Mid to Senior Level Banking Associate
Seeking an associate with a minimum of 4 years experience in general banking, acquisition finance and leveraged finance law. Leading drawer law school/law firm experience required.
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Boutique Firms Doing Well in Poor Economy
Conventional wisdom has it that in an economic downturn large law firms fare better than small boutique firms because of their diversified practice areas – when one area Is not doing so well, structured finance or real estate for example, complimentary areas of practice, bankruptcy for example, will help balance things out.
Some boutique firms are [...]
Paul Newman Wants to Stay Dead
In what may be a first, the late actor Paul Newman noted in his will that his executors should prevent any “virtual performance or reanimation of any performance by me by the use of any technique, technology or medium now in existence or which may be known or created in the future anywhere in the [...]
