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May 17 2012
New York law firm Kelley Drye & Warren has agreed to pay $574,000 in compensation to former equity partner Eugene T D’Ablemont, who was forced to give up his equity in...
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May 15 2012
As the partnership of Dewey & Lebouef’s partnership scatters across the legal services market, one senior partner has made an audacious claim against the firm,...
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Apr 24 2012
Berwin Leighton Paisner has hired high-profile mergers and acquisitions lawyer Alan Paul from Allen & Overy. Paul spent 27 years as a partner at A&O, before announcing...
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Apr 11 2012
Law firms in Washington DC have taken the first five places in a ranking of business retirement plans. The survey, conducted by financial advisor BrightScope, looked...
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Mar 13 2012
The issue of how law firms handle older lawyers who wish to keep working is becoming more acute as more lawyers challenge mandatory retirement policies.
An age...
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Mar 07 2012
Interesting article here about the pension plans offered by major law firms. The most generous plan in the survey is at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, which promises...
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Feb 13 2012
UK firm Allen & Overy has announced that it is doing away with a policy that sets a fixed retirement age of 60 years for partners. A&O is following in the footsteps of...
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Aug 30 2011
Clifford Chance has relocated Hong Kong partner Andrew Whan to its Tokyo office to replace outgoing local head of corporate/M&A Alan Kitchin.
Kitchen has left the...
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Aug 11 2011
A former litigation partner from US firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan is suing the firm for allegedly denying him retirement benefits to which he believes he is entitled....
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Jul 05 2011
Here is an interesting article about the remuneration of judges in New York, where the bench hasn’t seen a pay rise in 12 years. According to the article, judges have...
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Apr 27 2011
Mitch McCormick, 66, is making a challenge to the compulsory retirement policy at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, the Vancouver law firm where he has worked for 40 years....
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Feb 02 2011
Sullivan & Cromwell partner James Carter has moved to Dewey & LeBoeuf, one of the few large law firms without a mandatory retirement policy. Carter faced the prospect...
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Jan 19 2011
There is an fascinating article in Slate about ageing federal judges in the US. It points out that life tenure, intended to foster judicial independence, was enshrined...
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Jan 14 2011
Leading UK firms are reassessing their retirement policies ahead of legislative changes that will abolish the default retirement age of 65 for UK employees.
Firm...
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Dec 07 2010
Ronald Barusch spent over 30 years as an M&A practitioner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, before retiring this year. In this article he gives some insight...
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Aug 26 2010
Opposition hiccup for judges’ retirement bill
The Hindustan Times has reported on how Opposition parties on Wednesday appeared reluctant to provide...
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Jul 22 2010
Most US law firms have a policy to encourage older partners to retire. They justify the rules on the basis that they make way for younger partners to develop and to...
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May 17 2010
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom have announced changes to their retirement policy. The previous policy required partners to begin transferring work to younger...
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Apr 09 2010
Kelley Drye & Warren has dropped its mandatory retirement policy following pressure from the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Under the former policy,...
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Jul 21 2008
Leslie Seldon, a solicitor who was forced by his law firm to retire at 65 has lodged a test appeal, claiming that he was the victim of age discrimination. Mr Seldon's...
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Dec 08 2007
As baby boomers hit their 60s, Am Law 200 firms try to keep the most experienced and talented ones from walking out the door.
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