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Challenging Market Conditions Sees Profit Margins Fall At U.K.'s Largest Law Firms

October 24, 2016

Continental Breakfast: your daily update on what's happening in Europe.A combination of growing pressure from clients on fees, increasing associate…

Scientists Create Artificial Intelligence Software That Can Predict Trial Results

October 24, 2016

Artificial intelligence has become one of the hottest trends in Big Law, with a number of major U.S. and international law firms starting to use machine…

Tweeting Ted Boutrous and Followers Vow to Fend Off Trump for Free

October 24, 2016

The Twitter accounts of lawyers are usually lonely, desolate places ignored by many and visited by a nerdy few, but Ted Boutrous just broke away from that pack.

Judge Smacks Down FTC for Venue Shopping

October 21, 2016

A federal judge in Pennsylvania admonished the Federal Trade Commission for threatening to “pick up its marbles” and go elsewhere for not getting the desired ruling in a reverse payment case involving painkillers.

Coming Next Week: Pay Equity in America

October 21, 2016

Starting Monday, through Law.com, ALM will take a closer look at why fair pay issues are bubbling up so intensely now—more than 50 years since the federal…

Bentham Makes Bet on Whistleblower Suits

October 21, 2016

Australia-based litigation funding outfit Bentham IMF this week rolled out a new initiative in the U.S. designed to increase its investment in whistleblower cases under the False Claims Act.

States Look to Give Teeth to National Pay Equity Legislation

October 21, 2016

A wave of legislation has swept across the country as states attempt to enact more forceful pay equity legislation than the federal Equal Pay Act of 1963 provides.

Cyberattacks Hit Several Major Websites, Though No Major Damage Reported

October 21, 2016

Widespread internet outages hit the United States today, causing all sorts of digital trouble for some Web services, according to news reports.

Obama Administration Champions Pay Equity, But Some Allege Overreach

October 21, 2016

The EEOC is readying to collect pay data along gender lines from a large swath of companies, extending the legacy of an Obama Administration that made pay equity an early priority. But some say these efforts have gone too far and are hurting business.

Assault on Wage Gap Forcing Industry to Pay More Than Lip Service

October 21, 2016

A series of articles on gender pay equity The movement to bring gender pay equity to the American workforce has been around…

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