Dina Wang is a Fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School. She’s on twitter at @DinaSWang. Hiring big-hitting lawyers by General Counsel and large companies is going through a major ground-shift, according to a new study. The law firm pedigree may be less important than many of the Big Law […]
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The US has become aghast that beloved Bill Cosby could really be someone who had sexually abused women at the height of his fame. Could this be true? His lawyer, John Schmitt, did the lawyering on the swirling rumors and accusations: He would not dignify the “decade-old, discredited” claims with a response. He released a
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The merger between Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Bingham McCutchen has been placed Jami Wintz McKeon as a powerful lady in the law. Already chairing Morgan Lewis and acting as the woman heading the largest law firm in the US, she now rides shotgun on the merged firm which was described by Philly.com as a kind of ‘law firm
Worcester- based law firm Harrison Clark Rickerbys has received accolades from Legal 500 with a number of top rankings in the Chambers UK Guide rankings of major UK law firms. In the guide, produced annually by Chambers & Partners, HCR was ranked in the top tier of band one for family law, licensing, litigation, private
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James Peters wrote this piece for Forbes magazine. He is vice president Legal, New Market Initiatives for LegalZoom, an online legal service that has created its own disruption of the legal marketplace. Disruption is often a direct result of innovation, and in today’s global market, innovation and its subsequent disruption in one area of the world set
At last! After a long gestation it appears that Morgan Lewis & Bockius are to “kind of” merge with Bingham McCutchen. Kind of? Morgan Lewis are to take on 227 partners from Binghams, leaving around 60 in the cold. The deal follows Bingham voting in favor of the deal. Reuters report today that a Morgan Lewis
Among the many issues arising for women in the law, pregnancy is the major bugbear forstalling careers and leaving women stranded from making partner, the boardroom or lofty heights. And so when a New York lawyer requested that an upcoming trial be postponed because of her pregnancy, it lead to a major row. Deborah N
Let’s face it, there are not many divorce settlements that land the divorcee instantly in the list of the richest people in America. But that’s what is happening with the divorce deal done between Oklahoma oil man Harold Hamm and his former wife, who is now set to pocket close to $1 billion. Your read
Lawfuel.com – Law news daily – David E. Weiss has been named the Managing Partner of Reed Smith’s San Francisco office effective immediately. “David, whose busy practice connects him to our global network, has a strong rapport with the partners, associates, and staff in San Francisco,” said Reed Smith’s Global Managing Partner, Sandy Thomas.
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Tobacco heiress Doris Duke left a lot of money when she died – over $1 billion in fact – and it has now been left with a once-bankrupt lawyer who lost over $4.5 million of client money in a venture that was connected to a Ponzi scheme, according to the New York Post. The Post
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