That type of law firm structure, similarly employed by some other distributed, partner-heavy law firms, generally allows lawyers to take home a higher portion of fees charged to clients.

Nishimura became the second Big Four Japanese law firm to adopt a foreign law joint enterprise structure, enabling it to hire and promote foreign-qualified lawyers as equity partners and attract ...

The NYLJ 100 ranks the 100 largest firms by number of lawyers in the state of New York. All private law offices in the state are considered (public law offices—NYC's Corporation Counsel, the ...

It’s time to stop pretending that the $300B U.S. legal industry is anything but big business. All legal providers—including law firms-- should be able to operate from a corporate structure.

The Big Four structure is remarkably similar to most large law firms who operate under a single brand name but whose partner interests often diverge along economic, practice area, geographical ...

We used a sample of large, international law firms active in Germany between 2003 and 2011 for our research. We found that the average ratio of non-equity partners to equity partners in those firms ...