Wake Up Call: Dentons Makes U.S. Move by Adding Salt Lake Firm

In today’s column, Houston-based Susman Godfrey, whose founding partner and longtime managing partner died of Covid-19 last month, named its first female managing partner; business at some major law firms is better than last year, while other big firms are struggling in the Covid economic crisis; average legal demand is down but average billing rates are up; California’s top court rejected a petition to make a recent reduction in the bar exam pass score retroactive and Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court rejected a petition to grant diploma privilege to recent law grads.

• Leading off, the world’s biggest law firm by head count, ...