Let’s Talk About Recruiters
By Murray Gottheil | January 15, 2025 Lawyers struggle to attract talent who are both capable and a good fit for a firm’s culture. If only there were consultants whom firms could retain and candidates could work with who understand the market, the culture in different firms and practice groups, the current salaries being paid by […]
BARE BONES BRIEFS: No charging order for fees though client refuses to direct settlement to firm; Judge orders duelling counsel to lunch together; Lenczner Slaght obtains $259 million judgment in Manitoba’s first electronic trial; BLG hires Hélène Deschamps Marquis to co-head privacy and cybersecurity group
By Julius Melnitzer | January 5, 2005 BAD WAY FOR LAW FIRM TO START NEW YEAR On New Year’s Eve, Ontario Superior Court Justice Todd Robinson denied Woodrbridge, ON law firm Capo Sgro LLP‘s application for a charging order over settlement fees, brought after the client sought an assessment (still pending) of the firm’s total […]
Retirement For Young and Old Lawyers: Part Seven
By Murray Gottheil | January 1, 2025 In Part Four, I wrote about the dread that some of us experience when we contemplate the fantasy number that we think we have to save to retire. Once I abandoned my original demented plan to work as long as it took to achieve my number, I asked my […]
Retirement For Young and Old Lawyers: Part Six
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 […]
The Unhappy Lawyer: It’s Not About the Journey
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 […]
Retirement For Young and Old Lawyers: Part Five
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, […]
Retirement For Young and Old Lawyers: Part Four
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 […]
Retirement for Young and Old Lawyers: Part Three
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 […]
Retirement For Young and Old Lawyers: Part Two
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 […]
Does Size Matter? Big Law, Small Law, La La La
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 […]