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Travers Smith has overhauled its bonus structure, shifting to a discretionary, performance-based system, or what several people have described as a ‘black box’ model. For a firm that has historically held fast to tradition, the shift to a performance-based bonus system represents a fiscal and cultural leap that has been met with uncertainty, despite the possibility […]
December 2, 2022 Washington, D.C. partner Roscoe Jones, Jr. and New York of counsels Karin Portlock and Brendan Stewart were named to The National Black Lawyers Top 100 Black Lawyers 2023, a list of “influential lawyers who have a reputation for providing excellent legal representation and who are leaders in their respective practice areas.” The National […]
Attorneys for a Georgia jail detainee shown on security footage being punched by guards repeatedly in the head and neck have called for the deputies to be fired and arrested, insisting the videos show the violence was unjustified. “There is no way in hell that anybody should be beaten the way this man was beaten,” […]
A theme of our ongoing coverage of the legal proceedings on Guantanamo Bay is the immense difficulty of prosecuting individuals previously tortured and subjected to incommunicado detention. Indeed, the government may reach plea deals with the five defendants in the Sept. 11 case instead of finishing the critical suppression hearings – which still have several […]
Factors preventing Black lawyers from advancing to the senior ranks of the legal sector include being viewed as “aggressive” and having to tackle burdens that white counterparts do not face, according to a new report that shines a light on the realities of Black lawyer progression. The 1% Study, commissioned by Extense—a legal sector specialist inclusion […]
Factors preventing Black lawyers from advancing to the senior ranks of the legal sector include being viewed as “aggressive” and having to tackle burdens that white counterparts do not face, according to a new report that shines a light on the realities of Black lawyer progression. The 1% Study, commissioned by Extense—a legal sector specialist inclusion […]
Afro-Brazilian lawyers have long been underrepresented in the legal field in Brazil. But Mattos Filho is trying to change that. The firm has hired nine Black lawyers, who will join seven different practice areas. Mattos Filho said it wants to increase representation for the group, which has long been underrepresented in the legal field. More than […]
Some might say commercial lawyers are operating in a kind of bubble, operating with inflated salaries in half-empty luxurious offices while the rest of the country struggles with rising food, fuel and energy prices. At the very least they are at the comfy end of the profession. When criminal barristers staged a walkout this week […]
The average number of Black lawyers across the largest U.K. law firms remains well below the national average in the U.K. population, according to the latest research by Law.com International. Across 68 major legal institutions, 2.2% of lawyers and 1.05% of partners are Black, the research found, compared with 4.1% of the U.K. population recorded […]
Historically, the legal profession has been one of the least diverse in the nation. In 2007, around 4% of lawyers identified as African American, and about 4% identified as Hispanic. A decade later, those numbers increased to approximately 5% each, despite the fact that African Americans made up around 13.3% of the population and Hispanics […]