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Gavin Newsom Signs Law Requiring All Companies to Include Salary Ranges - The new pay transparency law will require nearly 200k California companies with 15+ employees to disclose pay starting next year. More here.
Lawyer Burnout Bad, But Not as Bad as Q4 2021 - A Bloomberg Law survey reports lawyers feel burnout an average of 47% of the time in the first half of the year; which is down 5% from the last quarter of 2021. More here.
Average office occupancy for law firms nationally was 60.7% for the week of Sept. 21, compared to 47.3% average occupancy of all other industries for that week, marking the highest level of occupancy since the start of the pandemic. More here.
TikTok Faces $29M Fine in UK - After the Information Commissioner's Office provisionally found that the company breached child data protection laws for a two-year timespan between May 2018 - July 2020. More here.
AI: How Will In-House Law Depts Run in 10 Years? - Senior Legal Counsel Elizabeth Colombo talks through her predictions on how in-house law will change as AI becomes more integrated into workflows. More here.
'Talent is Talking': Glassdoor Survey on What Matters Most to Employees - Of 850 employed professionals, 69% say it's extremely important that their employer has a brand they are proud to support. Download the report here.
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The firm has announced year-end bonuses that significantly outstrip those offered by the largest law firms in the nation.
The past week has seen a series of notable shifts in the legal leadership of several high-profile companies.
In-house legal professionals discuss their views on anxiety in their advanced careers.
DOJ pushes Google to sell Chrome, share data, and consider divesting Android to address its search monopoly, drawing criticism from Google as extreme and overreaching.
Milbank announced year-end bonuses for its associates, and industry insiders said it's likely that other firms will issue associate bonuses but it was unclear whether any year-end bonuses would include summer bonuses, which had earlier been skipped over.
Paul Weiss announced the promotion of 34 new partners, nearly tripling the size of its class after announcing that it would roll out a non-equity partner tier. Steptoe meanwhile announced a revamped associate compensation system with three full-time billable-hour tracks.
Sidley Austin, a leading law firm, recently undertook a groundbreaking experiment to evaluate the efficacy of GPT-4, the latest generative AI model from OpenAI, in the realm of e-discovery and document review. This article delves into their findings, shedding light on both the advantages and limitations of employing GPT-4 for legal document review.
In-house legal professionals discuss what they do when the business team won't listen to the legal teams' advice within their company.
Legal Operations professionals talk through what legal metrics dashboards work for their teams.