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Prominent Shipping, LNG and Energy Partner Kevin Keenan Joins Reed Smith’s Global Transportation Industry Group in Houston

Press Releases / September 10, 2020

HOUSTON – Sept. 9, 2020 – Reed Smith today announced that Kevin D. Keenan, a Houston-based lawyer whose wide-ranging global practice is at the intersection of energy transportation and infrastructure development, has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner in its global 140-lawyer Transportation Industry Group. A former partner with Hogan Lovells, Keenan advises clients across

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How COVID-19 Has Created An Advantage for Hackers & Other Bad Actors With Ransomware Attacks

Briefings / September 9, 2020

How You Can Fight Back Against Ransomware

Patterson Belknap – As we previously described and as reflected in the rapidly increasing number of cyber-attacks since its start, the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a shift in working practices that hackers and other bad actors are using to their advantage. Recent studies show a 273% percent rise in large-scale data breaches in the first quarter of 2020, compared to prior-year

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How Has COVID-19 Impacted Personal Injury Cases?

Harrisonburg Personal Injury Lawyer – It’s easy to understand why people are worried about COVID-19 and the whole array of ways in which it has had an impact on their daily lives. But even in these uncertain times, law firms have remained open and have continued to place their clients as their top priority. The

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Can you sue a police officer for misconduct?

Briefings / September 9, 2020

Paul Sander – Philando Castile. Walter Scott. Eric Garner. Rachelle Jackson. Names that you’ve probably heard of, unfortunately, because their lives were brutally taken by officers sworn to uphold the law. Law enforcement is supposed to serve and protect us, so we are traumatized, betrayed, and angry when they break that trust. And of course

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Cutbacks From Skadden Arps and Other Big Law Firms

Law Job News, US Law / September 8, 2020

US law firms continue to announce layoffs with recruiters and others saying more layoffs lie ahead with overcapacity among noneqjuity partners. One of the issues is that lawyers working from home are less reliant upon staff members at law firms. Altman Weil principal Eric Seeger told Law.com that he has spoken with about three dozen

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Veteran Lawyer Joins Ngai Tahu Board

New Zealand Law News, NZ Press Releases, Power List / September 8, 2020

Ngai Tahu Holdings is excited to announce the appointment of two new directors to its board – Kristen Kohere-Soutar and Juliet Tainui-Hernandez Both highly experienced directors are joining the NgÄi Tahu Holdings Board for three-year terms. Kohere-Soutar was previously chair of Whai Rawa, the NgÄi Tahu savings scheme, until joining the board of global professional

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What Makes A Great Managing Partner in a Law Firm?*

Headlining, Headlining NZ, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / September 8, 2020

*According to a leading legal journalist who has gossiped and drunk with many Drinking with managing partners can be a challenging pursuit, even for a legal editor like Alex Novarese of Legal Business. But it does help provide some interesting and perhaps more honest appraisal of where the legal industry is going after the upheavals

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Law Firm Management Strategy: Leading UK Law Firm Offers Expansion or Exit Route For Legal Firms

Law Firm Management, Press Releases, UK Law / September 7, 2020

O’Neill Patient Solicitors to offer expansion help or an exit route to other legal firms One of the UK’s leading conveyancing solicitors, O’Neill Patient LLP (ONP) is prepared to provide help or an exit route to other legal firms. Following its purchase of South East based Cavendish Legal Group, which completed in June, it has

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MinterEllisonRuddWatts Advise on Sale of MediaWorks

MinterEllisonRuddWatts, New Zealand Law News, NZ Power Law Firms, NZ Top in LawFuel / September 7, 2020

Leading law firm, MinterEllisonRuddWatts advised MediaWorks on its sale agreement to sell MediaWorks TV to Discovery Inc (Discovery), a global leader of ‘real-life’ entertainment.MediaWorks is New Zealand’s largest independent commercial broadcaster, with MediaWorks TV comprising free-to-air channels Three and Bravo, streaming service ThreeNow, and multi-platform news and current affairs service Newshub, as well as the

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DLA Piper Moves to Commercial Bay

New Zealand Law News, NZ Press Releases / September 7, 2020

Global law firm DLA Piper is moving its Auckland office to new premises in the PwC Tower in Commercial Bay on 7 September 2020. DLA Piper’s New Zealand Country Managing Partner, Martin Wiseman, says “I’m incredibly excited to be shifting to this world-class, open-plan, technically sophisticated office environment. It tangibly reflects our desire for more

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