A recent article published in The Washington Business Journal’s FedBiz column featured a dispute between Booz Allen and a former employee, Gia Allen. Ms. Allen claims that Booz Allen extended a counteroffer to entice her to decline a competing firm’s [...]
Even in today’s difficult economy, law firms are still bringing in lateral partners, and partners are still changing firms. A key component in the lateral partner hiring process is the lateral partner questionnaire, or LPQ as its termed in today’s [...]
Earlier this month, Business Week jumped on the “law firms must adapt or die” bandwagon. This follows a story concerning the so-called travails of Mayer Brown in the New Republic with the patently ridiculous title, “The Last Days of Big [...]
As we approach the end of the year, law firms are focused on two major initiatives, collecting bills and determining partner compensation. […]
Remember when after the 2008 economic meltdown, some pundits were predicting that law firms based in Washington would benefit from the increased regulatory work, somewhat at the expense of New York-based firms. Well, it hasn’t turned out that way, and [...]
In a recent article in FCW, “Demand grows for data scientists”, the author, Frank Konkel, discusses how the addition of 2.5 Quintillion bytes of information every day to our current systems has affected the demand for data scientists. [...]
Tim Ward, Principal at The McCormick Group Inc., recently had a Q&A session with Emily Mekinc from the Washington Business Journal about sequestration and the government contracting market. […]
Recent surveys conducted by the Citi Private Law Firm Group and Lexis-Nexis indicate that while lateral partner hiring remains as robust as ever, a large number of managing partners question the overall efficacy of such efforts. […]
A study of early financial results reported by law firms for 2012 reveals that last year produced very similar results to 2011, with nearly identical increases in both revenues and profits per partner. […]
Two recent news stories regarding organizational conflicts of interest should catch the attention of leadership teams at federal government contractors. […]