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Private Equity Companies Look to Continue Inroads In Legal By Funding Lateral Partner Moves
Private equity companies, which have successfully made inroads into the legal industry, are now considering funding lateral partner moves to bring top rainmakers to midtiered firms that might not otherwise have the compensation flexibility to land top names, experts say.
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Players On the Move
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
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Firms Getting More Nimble and Efficient In Lateral Hiring to Stay Competitive
Even as they become more probing, law firms are also moving faster to make significant lateral hires, according to industry recruiters and consultants.
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Players On the Move
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
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Players On the Move
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
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Strategies for Promoting Lateral Hires
Firms believe they only get one chance to call attention to lateral partner hires. How the initial splash is handled with clients, as well as internal and external communications, is certainly extremely important. However, maximizing lateral hire announcements should really be viewed as a critical kick-off to the overall timeline and success of lateral integration over the first year and beyond.
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Processes, Challenges and Solutions In Lateral Partner Integration
Tips and shared advice from lateral integration professionals provide creative, practical and streamlined solutions to law firm marketers involved in the lateral integration process.
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Ethical Obligations and Risks of Engaging a Temporary Attorney
It is not uncommon for practitioners and law firms to employ the services of temporary (or contract) attorneys as the need may arise in contemporary practice. This article discusses the ethical obligations and associated risks that flow from engaging the services of a temporary attorney.
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Plan to Protect Cybersecurity for Employees Before Day One
With new employees come new risks; from aspiring insider threats that intend to join a target to extract sensitive information, to insecure processes being exploited due to too much trust being placed in candidates and new hires.
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Why Law Firms and 3Ls Alike Should Consider Deferring
We can expect that soon some enlightened Big Law firms will level with their incoming associates (or at least the corporate ones) and explain that market conditions are such that the firm cannot assure them of the volume of work necessary for their normal growth and development and, accordingly, the firm is offering a stipend (and health insurance) to those who choose to defer for a year.
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