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2010 Midlevel and Summer Associate Surveys

October 29, 2010 17:33

The 2010 Midlevel and Summer Associate Surveys are currently out and available for download at all subscription levels. In addition, ALM Legal Intelligence is making individual question scores available for participating firms. This additional report includes data per associate for...

INCISIVE LEGAL INTELLIGENCE ON THE ROAD

March 02, 2009 11:00

Each year we do a series of trade shows, conferences and annual meetings. The three at which we see an enormous number of customers, potential customers and old friends are LMA, SLA and AALL. As usual, we shall be at...

ARIC PRESS AT GEORGETOWN LAW SYMPOSIUM

February 27, 2009 09:00

You know, of course, that the vast majority of materials in our database are culled from the pages of our publications, under the meticulous and creative leadership of editorial director Aric Press. This coming Tuesday, March 3, 2009, Aric will...

NEW MATERIALS IN THE ILI DATABASE

February 26, 2009 16:49

For years, some of the most eagerly anticipated reports to appear in the magazines have been the associate surveys, Midlevel and Summer. A couple of months ago we added the Midlevel Associate Survey to the database, a single Excel® notebook...

MORE ON LAYOOFS, INCLUDING AN ARTICLE ON “HOW?”

January 27, 2009 16:12

AND A LIST OF AMLAW 200 FIRMS AND THEIR EMPLOYMENT MOVES It is unfortunately true that we spend a great deal of our time now commenting on layoffs, partner departures, redundancy consultations and such matters. Here are two additional notes...

DIVERSITY: AN IMPORTANT METHODOLOGICAL CHANGE

January 22, 2009 15:39

Some of the material printed in our publications is useful in that it can be collected, rearranged, studied, analyzed, combined and taken apart to form conclusions about a law firm’s performance and prospects. Some of the material, however, is more...

LATERALS

January 15, 2009 17:39

Never mind Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day—think of February as Laterals Month. There is now quite a bit more information available on laterals than there once was, or maybe it is just easier to turn up. To cite only two...

MORE TO THE BILLABLE HOUR

January 12, 2009 16:57

When I wrote last week about Evan Chesler’s and Aric Press’s remarks about the fate of the billable hour, I noted that billing was an area in which we saw, within law firms, more and more interest over the past...

LAYOFFS, BRANCH OFFICES, PRACTICE GROUPS

January 09, 2009 17:03

The unfortunate news from London that Clifford Chance, largest (by gross revenue) law firm in the world, has undertaken redundancy consultations concerning seventy to eighty associates serves as a reminder that ILI has undertaken to renew what was a very...

BILLING AND THE BILLABLE HOUR

January 08, 2009 16:12

The Incisive Media law.com site has an article by Aric Press from The American Lawyer about the status and future of the billable hour. Aric is reporting on comments made in Forbes magazine by Cravath presiding partner Evan Chesler. Here...