By Julius Melnitzer | December 19, 2024 Mergers and acquisitions can give rise to many legal and financial complexities related to executive compensation. “The key thing from acquirers’ point of view is to understand what their objectives are with respect to executive compensation,” says Elizabeth Boyd, a pensions, benefits and executive compensation partner at Blake, […]
By Murray Gottheil | December 18, 2024 Husband: “Green Acres is the place to be . . . keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.” Wife: “New York is where I’d rather stay. I get allergic smelling hay. I just adore a penthouse view. Dah-ling, I love you, but give me Park Avenue.” – Lyrics by Vic […]
By Marcel Strigberger | December 17, 2024 The following is an excerpt from Marcel Strigberger’s new book, First, Let’s Kill the Lawyer Jokes: An Attorney’s Irreverent Serious Look at the Legal Universe Hey lawyers! Is everybody happy? You may be one of the fortunate ones. I Googled “unhappy lawyers” and my search triggered 17,200,000 results, including “I hate being […]
By Julius Melnitzer | December 16, 2024 Far be it from me to judge whether a reprimand was an appropriate sanction for Jeremy Diamond’s misconduct, though I’m a firm believer that the initial Law Society Tribunal that heard his case had no business refusing to let him withdraw his admissions of guilt after rejecting a […]
By Murray Gottheil | December 10, 2024 Way back in 1997, my firm had an existential crisis when our three largest rainmakers decided to ditch private practice to chase the really big money. And of course, they all wanted their capital back. At the same time. So, brilliant lawyer that I was, after surviving that crisis, […]
By Murray Gottheil | December 9, 2024 This is Part Four of my series on retiring from the legal profession. In the first three parts, I did not even mention “the Number”. We all know what the Number is: the amount of investments that you supposedly require so that you can retire. I spent many years […]
By Murray Gottheil | December 7, 2024 In Part One, I told you to figure out what you want your retirement to look like. In Part Two I advised you to get to know yourself. This time, a cautionary note. You need to figure out if you really want to retire or whether you are just […]
By Murray Gottheil | December 5, 2024 In Part One of this series on retirement, I defined retirement as a time “when you are doing exactly what you want to be doing,” and I wrote about needing to figure out exactly what that is. In order to do that, you need to know yourself. For some […]
By Marcel Strigberger | December 4, 2024 The following is an excerpt from Marcel Strigberger’s new book, First, Let’s Kill the Lawyer Jokes: An Attorney’s Irreverent Serious Look at the Legal Universe Big Law, Small Law… Big difference? If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle – Rickson Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial artist What is Big […]
By Murray Gottheil | December 3, 2024 I look in the mirror and wonder who the little old lady staring back at me is. – Doris Gottheil, age 95 What a strange title. Everyone knows that it is only old lawyers who have to worry about retirement, not young ones. Right? I think not. Life is […]