Latham & Watkins has moved into Number 1 position for top grossing law firms according to a report from the American Lawyer, generating $2.6 billion in revenues. The revenue increase is 14 percent more than the previous year. AmLaw’s rankings look at financial metrics including revenues and profits per partner and it moves Lathams into
Bankruptcy law, as you might expect post-GFC and a few other crises along the way, is big business. And one of the biggest – if not the biggest – attorney handling bankruptcy law is Weil Gotshal partner Harvey Miller. Mr Miller, 82, died recently after acting for such notable bankrupts as Lehman Brothers Holdings. “Harvey
Xerox-xls.com – In February, the White House appointed DJ Patil as the first “chief data scientist” in U.S. history in order to address the challenges of Big Data, who will be tasked with trying to use that data to create efficiencies, promote innovation and unlock economic potential. Businesses face a similar situation in dealing with
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Hong Kong, 28 April 2015 – LawFuel.com – Mayer Brown JSM today announced that Thomas Kollar has joined as a partner in the Corporate & Securities practice group in Hong Kong. “Tom is a great technical lawyer with a wealth of experience in regional cross-border capital markets matters,” said Jason T. Elder, Mayer Brown
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– Sullivan & Cromwell represented Baker Bros. Advisors, LLC (U.S.) in connection with their funds role as lead investor, along with several co-investors, in the purchase of a newly authorized class of Series A-2 Convertible Preferred Shares of BeiGene, Ltd. (China), collectively representing 23.55% of BeiGene’s total capital shares on a fully diluted basis, for
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— LawFuel.com – Attorney General Pam Bondi today filed a complaint against the Obama administration in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida challenging the federal government’s attempt to coerce Florida into expanding Medicaid by withholding Low Income Pool healthcare funding. The complaint was filed on behalf of Governor Rick
LOS ANGELES –– The leader of the Oxnard-based Colonia Chiques street gang was sentenced this afternoon to life without parole in federal prison, plus an additional 55-year consecutive term, for his conviction on a host of narcotics and weapons offenses, including leading a continuing criminal enterprise (CCE). Luis Manuel Tapia, 39, of
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID RILEY, former Chief Information Officer of Foundry Networks, Inc. (“Foundry”), a California-based technology company that was acquired by Brocade Communications, Inc. (“Brocade”), in 2008, was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for his participation in an insider trading
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Using the “F Bomb” to plead your case is not necessarily the most effective way to persuade a judge to uphold your claim, but for pro se plaintiff Tamah Jada Clark’s $10 billion federal lawsuit that’s exactly what she did in her claim entitled “Notice to f*ck this court and everything it stands for”. Ms
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Canadian litigation lawyer Rob Sutherland was having a perfectly satisfactory morning discussing a case with the Crown attorney when his morning turned into a fireball when his parked car exploded. It’s the stuff of movies – a ‘take down’ of a rebel lawyer, perhaps – but for the Nova Scotia lawyer it was something less
