The American Lawyer

How are women reacting to Sheryl Sandberg’s (seemingly overnight) transformation from women’s icon to the bitch of the C-suite? It seems as if they've been waiting for this moment to settle a score with the Lean-In goddess, @lawcareerist writeshttps://trib.al/43UaGKR 

"It was big, it was impactful, and it was scary" - Tammy Baldwin, chief of business operations of @PerkinsCoieLLP, whose Anchorage office was hit with some damages in Friday's magnitude 7.0 earthquakehttps://trib.al/3LCe0e8 

"I’d like to bring meritorious class actions and also defend meritorious class actions for companies, and a lot of firms just don’t allow that," new @PBBPHllp partner Deborah Renner saidhttps://trib.al/qWd9AiS 

Women’s associations from eight elite law schools are joining the fight against forced mandatory arbitration among legal employers @Harvard_Law @YaleLawSch @StanfordLaw @PennLaw @BerkeleyLaw @UChicagoLaw @CornellLaw @nyulawhttps://trib.al/IJw3Zca 

Eric Bruce, a former counselor to the U.S. attorney general, has joined @Freshfields after spending nine years at Kobre & Kim, where he led the white-collar practice.https://trib.al/gxJ8J31 

It's that time of year when law firm managers may start to consider taking clients to court over unpaid bills. But even when the firms are sophisticated business litigators, the rulings show that success is hardly guaranteed.https://trib.al/GgAwIKH 

The U.S. arm of litigation funder @BenthamIMF raised $275 million from outside investors, with the expectation that it will raise a further $125 million by the end of the yearhttps://trib.al/y7whp7h 

.@GlaserWeil has hired Larry Hadley from McKool Smith to rebuild its intellectual property practice group. The Los Angeles-based firm lost its last IP partner to Jeffer Mangels in October.https://trib.al/QemvCtV 

When Jay-Z grabs the microphone, people listen. Consequently, the ADR industry is now under the spotlight, after the legendary rapper-turned-mogul accused the AAA of lacking a slate of African-American arbitrators capable of handling complex cases.https://trib.al/oNbSJ4N 

The Hong Kong firm, which will have 6 partners, will join Deloitte’s global legal network, which has over 2,000 legal professionals in more than 80 countrieshttps://trib.al/dyYH1u0 

“Our interest is not in acquiring books of business. We don’t care so much what year you are, we’re not interested in the hierarchy. We’re interested in people coming up with great ideas,” said John Harkrider, a founding partner at Axinnhttps://trib.al/kCyt98S 

“What our clients want is a very granular understanding of what lawyers bring to the table,” @PrioriLegal's Mirra Levitt says.https://trib.al/tnw5wrI 

John Harkrider, a founding partner at antitrust and IP shop Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, sees hiring opportunities as a result of the “broken” law firm economic system, he said.https://trib.al/dC1Q6mS 

"Fast-forward a couple of years, and it will be absolutely unthinkable to not study your judge or to not study the lawyer you’re going to hire in a statistical fashion."https://trib.al/lepMeNG 

Nicole Sahrasky said she began talking to @Mayer_Brown a year ago and ultimately deemed it a better fit, in part because of the appellate group’ resemblance to the Solicitor General’s Office, where she argued 29 cases before SCOTUS over 10 years.https://trib.al/gitZVdp 

.@DLA_Piper has added bench strength to its northern Virginia offices with the hire of corporate partner Christine Walchuk from Goodwin Procter.https://trib.al/gyPVj54 

You can refer clients to a finance company to help cover legal costs, but must tell them if you hold an ownership stake in such a business and direct them to independent advice before they take a loan, @ABAesq says in a new ethics opinion.https://trib.al/sg4eW71 

The case most cited by every federal judge, for 100 different types of motions, is now available to litigators at the click of a mousehttps://trib.al/ysC1Ns9 

"We’re creating cultures in law firms that are misaligned with the values of taking care of one another." - Christopher Newbold of @ALPScorphttps://trib.al/9pKcSpi 

"We’re trial lawyers, and our approach to this is essentially the same" said new committee member Karen Dunn. "One part meticulous preparation, one part an unreasonable level of confidence, and one part having the judgment to know what to do in the moment"https://trib.al/RiqKefg