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In the span of two days, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius made changes to leadership in nine of the firm’s 28 offices, with many of the changes adding a recently hired Bingham McCutchen partner to co-lead with an existing Morgan Lewis managing partner. The moves are part of Morgan Lewis’ overall effort to integrate the more […]

We’ll never be younger than we are today. Our youth and prime of life are fleeting. As George Bernard Shaw famously declared, “youth is wasted on the young.” Our generation, the Millennials, is said to be the most racially tolerant of any generation. However, we may not be as racially tolerant as the media triumphs, or as […]

Our society is solely focused on running-and-gunning and always looking for entertainment, fun and excitement.  The Memorial Day weekend always comes around the same time as the end of the school year, graduations and summer-time fun.  Often what gets kicked to the back burner, or even left out altogether are visits to the cemetery, new […]

It’s easy to fall into a pattern of “always working” rather than working smart.  However, there are ways to avoid falling into that trap: 1. Take more breaks. In one of my favorite books, Stephen Covey tells a story about a woodcutter whose saw gets more blunt as time passes and he continues cutting down trees. If […]

WASHINGTON — After five years of fractious political combat, President Obama declared independence from Congress on Tuesday as he vowed to tackle economic disparity with a series of limited initiatives on jobs, wages and retirement that he will enact without legislative approval. Promising “a year of action” as he tries to rejuvenate a presidency mired […]

Top staffing and document review firm, GRG, Grimes Recruitment Group says that financial litigation remains active in 2014!  Also, after a review of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2014, it appears that 70% of them are valued above £100 million.  Below is a summarized list of the top 20 cases of 2014: 1) JP […]

Top Legal Search Specialist Nancy Grimes and all of the GLI/GRG team wish you all the best for a happy, healthy and successful 2014.  Happy New Year!

“When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace.” Nelson Mandela meant many things to many people.  Many projected on him a god-like persona as a “political superman”.  Others saw in him the qualities they wanted or feared.  For many years, […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The proposed merger of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman would instantly make the firm the biggest in the Bay Area, with nearly 500 lawyers split between the San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. But that’s almost beside the point. On each side, the strategic thinking seems more about […]

Article as seen on Law.com – By Gina Passarella of The Legal Intelligencer – March 14th, 2013 As the final pieces of the America Invents Act are about to go into effect March 16, intellectual property lawyers are scrambling to get thousands of last-minute patent filings in before the old rules expire Friday. And with firms […]