LONDON, November 18, 2014 — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is pleased to announce that Daniel Gal will join its market-leading International Litigation and Arbitration Group in London. Mr. Gal was most recently a partner at a U.S.-based international law firm, where he led its London international arbitration practice. He has extensive experience
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Privacy and other important legal rights are increasingly the subject of hot debate among lawyers and clients alike. But now the question raised in a Washington Post article is whether internet moguls with access to a goldmine of data have somehow elevated themselves above the law. Have they? The issue arose after Uber Technologies executive Emil Michael
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), and Shantelle P. Kitchen, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations Division (“IRS-CI”), announced today the arrest of KAREN
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Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld has found himself in hot water with students over an op-ed in the NY Times regarding campus rape. The professor’s problem is that he his comments about consent indicate that affirmative consent policies are unenforceable and too broad. More than 75 students have signed an open letter about the
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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
