June 21, 2019
Retirement . . . are you kicking back and enjoying your grandchildren? Are you sitting by the pool or playing golf? What is on your bucket list? Skydiving! Are you looking to ease into retirement now? Considering a firm with more than one location. Live in NYC but want to spend time in Florida?
June 17, 2019
Who doesn’t love a virtual reality tour? Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has introduced a new guided virtual reality tour of its Dallas and New York offices online. Why you ask? This is a new way for the firm to have recruiters and law students look around their offices and see what it would be like to work for them.
June 6, 2019
The path to making partner is not for the faint of heart. For lawyers, becoming partner is end-game and what most fail to realize while on this track is that becoming partner is a “slow and steady” concept. Let me explain, in order for associates to become partner they must put in their dues by pleasing their partners and clients and fulfilling billable hours. However, what they fail to realize is that there are other things that contribute to becoming partner. Young associates tend to forget these things while attempting to keep up with the “hefty billable hour requirements” requested of them within a 168 hour week.
June 17, 2019
Who doesn’t love a virtual reality tour? Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has introduced a new guided virtual reality tour of its Dallas and New York offices online. Why you ask? This is a new way for the firm to have recruiters and law students look around their offices and see what it would be like to work for them.
August 6, 2018
It is undisputed- for attorneys- that rapid technological advances are heralded as both a blessing and a curse. In this column, we examine the evolving trends in work styles and explore how modern day practice has adapted. Technology and work are always a topic that (more…)
July 6, 2018
There is perhaps no hotter topic—and seemingly intractable problem—in the legal profession today than that of the diversity gap. Despite good intentions, client incentives, innovative ideas, best practices guides, tech tools, and a host of surveys, initiatives, benchmarks, and trainings, true diversity (more…)