American Firms Pay Premium
am 01.12.2006 von German American Law Journal :: American EditionCK - Washington. An Azur overview of salaries paid associates in Germany-located law offices points to premiums paid by America-based law firms. The fall 2006 compensation table list both base and maximum salaries. There are small German firms with better deals but the Azur compilation appears to limit itself to larger firms. The German firms in the list may be better able to gauge the local market. The table includes domestic firms with excellent talent and superb attractiveness that pay at the low end …
Gute Zeiten für Paralegals
Jurabilis / - Paralegal compensation in U.S. law firms and corporate law departments showed solid increases over the previous year, above the rise in the cost of living. - Paralegals working in law firms received somewhat higher increases than their law dep…
Die Nestflucht der Großkanzlei-Associates: Warum und wohin?
Jurabilis / At the 250 largest law firms, the arrows are pointing up for many associate indicators. Summer internships are up. Incoming associate classes are up. Recruiting costs for both summer and first-year associates, in dollars and in partner time, are…
Law Firm of the Year
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The strange phenomenon of attempting to gauge law firms in a top firm of the year format finds its German result in a JUVE list of nominees. Among the firms without an American presence but great name recognition is a firm tha…
Schwieriger Markt
Jurabilis / If anything, Clearys experience is a road map of what to do-and what not to do-when breaking into Germany. The legal market in the country is in a great deal of flux. U.S. firms continue to arrive: Reed Smith, Kirkland & Ellis, and Squire, Sande…
Foreign Law Firms In China
Jurabilis / According to that small corner of the blogosphere that writes about China and the law, theres a memo circulating through Shanghai thats the talk of the town, at least among the expat legal community. In an item titled China Poised to Crack Dow…
Expansion in der Rezession
Jurabilis / In Zeiten nach hinten verlegter Associate-Einstellungstermine, Associate-Entlassungen und angedachter Gehaltskürzungen wirken solche Berichte wie aus einem Parallel-Universum:A question: Could the grim economic times be a recruiting boon for fi…
Der Bewerbermarkt
Jurabilis / The most common first-year associate salary at law firms with more than 500 attorneys climbed to $135,000 in 2006, NALP reported. That figure likely was welcome relief for law graduates, whose salaries at those firms were stagnant at $125,000 from 2…
Starke Marken
Jurabilis / Linklaters has surpassed magic circle rival Clifford Chance (CC) as the UK law firm with the strongest brand, according to a new study. The 2008 table of the top 500 business brands compiled by Superbrands saw Linklaters rank highest among law …
Summer Associates: Less Big-Scale Entertaining
Jurabilis / All play and no work. Thats the common conception of summer-associate programs at the nations biggest law firms. For about three months, the thinking goes, the firms bestow upon an anointed crop of law students a taste of the good life. They lunch a…
Law firms need to be more enterprising
Handakte WebLAWg / Our top law firms seem to be pretty good at how they employ people, but they are not particularly enterprising. That has to be the message drawn from a couple of leading awards results published recently. A few weeks ago names of familiar law firms w…
Ernennungen neuer Partner bei den TOP 50
Jurabilis / Diese Tabelle bietet eine gute Übersicht für den Markt im UK: Partner promotions across the top 10 City firms fell by 10% over the last financial year, according to Legal Week research which suggests law firms are already tightening their belt…
Mandant zieht die Notbremse
Jurabilis / Wal-Mart hat die Nase voll von ständigen Honorarsatzerhöhungen (jeweils nach den Gehaltserhöhungen für die First-Year-Associates) und fasst die eigene Haltung in einem lesenswerten Memo zusammen (WSJ berichtet):Starting salaries for junior a…
Very good English for lawyers/Sehr gute Englischkenntnisse als Anwalt
Transblawg / Alexander at Jurabilis links to the site e-fellows, which has a list of recruiting partners in big German law firms saying what qualities they look for if they are going to hire an associate. Alexander points out that the statements...…
Die Kunst, Seiteneinsteiger erfolgreich anzuwerben
Jurabilis / Most law firms have perfected the art of recruiting at the law student level: Send lawyers to law schools, exchange witty (or dull) banter with a number of future lawyers, bring a percentage of the candidates to the firms office for interviews,…
Law Firm as Stock Corporation
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The Handelsblatt newspaper summarizes today a ruling by the federal supreme court in Karlsruhe that law firms structured as stock corporations violate German professional rules in the event that their shareholders may also…
Stop being the equipment in games lawyers play
Vertretbar Weblawg / Im Jahr 1998 hat eine amerikanische Anwaltskanzlei die folgende Werbung geschaltet (via What About Clients?): IS THIS A GREAT TIME TO CHANGE LAW FIRMS, OR WHAT? Doing business has changed. But many law firms haven’t. They still charge for ̶…
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