by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
Did Your Firm Announce Bonuses Yet?: We made it easy for you to catch up on (or rush) the compensation! These Firms Did!: Linklaters, Clifford Chance. Dumb Costs: Trump and Habba have to pay for their failures. With cash. The Search For A Missing Lawyer Continues:...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
What lawyer first came up with the concept of canned cranberry sauce? Hint: It was part of an effort to extend the selling period of his staple crop. Years after canned cranberry sauce had become mainstream, he said of the innovation, “I felt I could do something for...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia and his wife, Cathy, reached an agreement with the I.R.S. to pay over $5 million in back federal income taxes. This agreement comes hours after the Department of Justice’s Tax Division filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
When I was in law school, negotiation was not a required class (it now is). Still, the reputation of our negotiation program and negotiation faculty convinced me negotiation would be more than worthwhile to take as an elective. I learned a lot in that course, and...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. When institutionally and governmentally and globally there’s kind of chaos and unpredictability, it’s harder to lead an organization. I think you live in a world now where there’s risk if you act and risk if...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Eleventh Circuit finally weighed in on Donald Trump’s appeal that hoped to set aside the massive sanctions slapped upon the president and his lawyers in the Florida conspiracy case against Hillary Clinton and most of D.C. In a...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
The search for missing Dallas attorney Charles Hosch enters a heartbreaking new phase. The longtime cybersecurity lawyer, a partner at boutique firm Hosch & Morris and an adjunct professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, vanished on November 11th while hiking Blood...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
Abracadabra! Biglaw bonus announcements are magically appearing in associates’ inboxes left and right, and the latest firm to unveil a bonus scale is Clifford Chance. Last year, the firm took in $3.25 billion in gross revenue and now they’re sharing the good fortune...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
Bonus season is underway, and Biglaw firms are lining up to reward associates for a year’s worth of effort. The market scale — unless some firm breaks rank and crashes the party — tracks last year, which can be a bit anticlimactic, but with the economy possibly...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
There’s a high-priority email associates are looking for this time of year — the one with a bonus announcement. Thankfully, Linklaters associates are done with the wait. The firm raked in a whopping $2,965,192,000 in gross revenue in 2024, according to American...
