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Boies Schiller sees big drop in revenue after partner departures   Image from Shutterstock.com. Boies Schiller Flexner will likely drop out of the American Lawyer’s list of the nation’s top 100 grossing law firms after losing a third of its equity partners last year. Law.com has a report on the firm’s 2020 financial numbers. Boies Schiller saw a 38% drop in gross revenue, a 54% drop in net income and a 32.1% drop in profits per equity partner. Revenue per lawyer increased, however, by 4.6%. Total gross revenue was $250 million, down from $405 million in 2019. That number will likely ke...

News Roundup Afternoon Briefs: 5 Jones Day plaintiffs drop claims; no immunity for cop who shocked girl during seizure   Only 1 plaintiff remains in Jones Day pay-bias suit Five of six former associates suing Jones Day for gender bias have dropped their claims. The move follows a decision by all the plaintiffs in December to drop class action pay-bias claims in the suit. The five plaintiffs said in a statement Thursday they dropped the class claims after receiving payroll data that did not support them. “We remain committed to advancing the goal of having greater equity in the legal profes...

Upgrading technology can help lawyers comply with ethics rules     Lawyer Megan Zavieh speaks Friday at an ABA Techshow 2021 session titled “Tech Ethics in a World Molded by the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Lawyers seeking to comply with their ethical duties would be wise to upgrade a wide variety of technology services they utilize, attorney Megan Zavieh said during an ABA Techshow 2021 session Friday. Home internet, online payment software and cloud storage tools were among the areas in which Zavieh recommended attorneys pay for enhanced products. She said the upgrades would help attorneys ens...

Professor's post-class comments criticizing Black law students captured on Zoom   Image from Shutterstock.com. Updated: Georgetown Law Center has terminated the position of an adjunct professor who was video recorded saying, “a lot of my lower ones are Blacks” with regard to students who took a negotiations seminar she taught. Sandra Sellers is a Virginia intellectual property lawyer and trained mediator, according to her website Technology Mediation Services. David Batson, who co-taught the course with her, also appeared on the video, and he appears to nod his head while Sellers is spea...

Do clients care more about a lawyer seeming smart or likable?   Katy Goshtasbi, CEO of Puris Consulting, speaks Wednesday at the ABA Techshow 2021. Want more leads that turn into paying clients? Embrace your authentic self and market who you are, even if it initially makes you uncomfortable, says Katy Goshtasbi, the author of Personal Branding in One Hour for Lawyers, a book from ABA Publishing. Goshtasbi, an experienced securities lawyer who now helps lawyers cultivate personal brands, spoke Wednesday at the ABA Techshow 2021. In her session, titled “How to Use Branding to Maintain a Div...