Cleary Gottlieb advised on two matters selected by The American Lawyer as winners of its 2014 Global Legal Awards, which recognize the most distinguished cross-border legal work across a range of practice areas. The American Lawyer received more than 270 nominations, including more than 170 transactions, from 66 law firms. Cleary Gottlieb earned the “Global […]
Who are the elite law firms who have most benefited from the megadeals and mergers? Who are the firms that garner the massive fees from the biggest deals? The top five law firms in dollar terms who had more than three-quarters of the market in the first half of the year were assembled by Dealogic
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SAN DIEGO – San Diego criminal defense attorney James Warner pleaded guilty today to two federal felony offenses, admitting that he laundered $100,000 of a client’s drug trafficking proceeds and then tampered with a potential witness in the case. Warner, 65, a San Diego resident who has been a member of
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Holman Fenwick Willan – Leading international law firm Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) is delighted to announce that Leigh Borrello has joined the firm as a Partner, effective 1 July 2014. Leigh will work from Sydney and Singapore and help to develop the firm’s asset finance practice, with particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Leigh is
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Privacy issues and the law have intersected so many times, particularly with social media’s impact on court reporting, that rulings over the media’s reporting of private disputes like divorce cases have become common. But the recent case of a UK hedge fund tycoon who sought to prevent the publication of Britain’s richest divorce case has
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The collapse of law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has seen accusations follow lawsuits as the criminal charges against the former chiefs at the failed firm face criminal charges. Now the lawyers are saying that the firm’s collapse was at least in part due to the voracious greed of some of the firm’s partners, claiming the
New technology like Google glasses may seem like a novelty rather than an aid to developing a personal injury law practice, but for California personal injury lawyer Mitch Jackson, whose practice focuses on personal injury and wrongful death law suits, the use of Google Glass has been something he uses as what he sees as
The IRS recently providing some information on how they follow the source of drug cartel money when it snakes into the US (or offshore) banking system. Money laundering charges are now a big part of bringing drug dealers to justice and unravelling their pipelines. From the IRS: It’s really pretty simple: No matter what the
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Any lawyer involved in litigation will have tales of discovery and the laborious nature of the whole darn business, but when “discovered” document don’t quite live up to expectations on the ‘other side’ then all hell could be unleashed – as happened here. Above the Law reports,” his guy’s lawyer went brutally funny on them….”
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Law firms are planning to hire more equity partners and full-time nonequity members because they are confident the demand for legal services is growing, according to a survey released Wednesday by Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group. The Law Watch managing partner confidence index survey for the second quarter, however, showed confidence in associate hiring
