Wake Up Call: Allen & Overy Tests New Performance Review Model

• A pilot program at Allen & Overy that eschews performance reviews and instead relies on “feedback and dialogue” to boost lawyers’ performance is getting rave reviews, especially from women lawyers. ( Legal Business ) This approach gets around gender bias inherent in performance reviews. Will other Big Law firms try it? ( Above The Law )

• Antitrust enforcement will continue under the Trump administration, says Bill Baer, who is returning to Arnold & Porter as a partner in its Washington, D.C., and recently talked to BLB. Over the last four years, Baer climbed to the number three position in the Obama administration’s ...