Partner moves: modern courtship, still risky; when big-stakes players hop from firm to firm, both sides can find that silver linings are laced with gray financial clouds

Article Abstract:

Issues regarding the disappearing of the stigma against lateral moves among law firms are discussed. Laterally hired partners face the danger of not learning enough about a firm's culture and reputation before moving there and of not knowing whether what they are told is really true.

Human resource management, Law firms

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Women in NLJ 250 hit a glass plateau; mergers, lure of other work keep numbers at law firms flat

Article Abstract:

The plateauing of the numbers of women attorneys at the largest US law firms is discussed. In the law firms making the National Law Journal's list of the 250 largest US firms, the percentage of female partners decreased from 15.7% in 1998 to 15.6% in 2000. Firm leaders expected more progress this year.

Employment, Women attorneys, Women lawyers

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Legal follies of 2000; we had some legal heroes in 2000. Alas, this is not their story

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Examples of some crimes, some msconduct and some very egregious faux pas of lawyers in the year 2000 are given.

Humor and anecdotes, Practice of law

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