No amount of legal training could have prepared Rachael Denhhollander for what lay ahead in blowing the whistle on serial sex abuser Larry Nassar. Ms Denhollander, an attorney in Louisville Kentucky, wrote in the NY Times about taking on the power of the US Olympic Committee and the cunning and predator expertise of Larry Nassar […]
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Ogletree Deakins – As Chief Diversity and Professional Development Officer at Ogletree Deakins, I have seen that law firms specifically, and the legal industry, generally, face external pressures from clients, outside counsel, and diversity groups to maintain diversity initiatives. Recently, some of that pressure has been coming from sources internal to law firms—namely, their own
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New York, NY – (January 16, 2018) – Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced today that Joseph J. Palermo has joined the firm as Chief Operating Officer. Palermo will work closely with firm leadership to provide executive oversight of the firm’s day-to-day operations and input on the firm’s business strategy, with a focus on organizational processes and professional business support
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that ONYEKACHI EMMANUEL OPARA was extradited from South Africa. In December 2016, OPARA was arrested in South Africa on
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20 2018 ASIL Annual Meeting – “International Law in Practice” April 4 – April 7, 2018 Washington, DC The 112th ASIL Annual Meeting will consider how and by whom international law is made, shaped, and carried out; and how international legal practice has changed and is continuing to change in response to geopolitical shifts and contemporary challenges.
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Don Testo* Donald Trump under oath – as he faces with the Mueller investigation – is something the President treats with traditional bluster and bravado. Given that he has uttered an alleged 2000 lies since taking ‘the oath of office’ the issue now is what he might do to himself when speaking with the special
Heather McCullough* What a law firm looks like today is dramatically different than what it looked like 50 years ago. Law firms benefitted from client expansion and demand for legal services, and grew exponentially. The sheer size of law firms today necessitates doing things differently than they have traditionally been done. Partners don’t work down
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JONATHAN POWELL was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison for computer fraud in connection with his scheme to obtain unauthorized access to more than 1,000 email accounts maintained by a New York City-area university in order to download
Cravath partner Mark I. Greene was named to Lawdragon’s 2017 list of “Legends,” which recognized those lawyers who have been featured among Lawdragon’s list of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” for 10 consecutive years. Lawdragon described those on the short list as “the very best of the profession,” and noted Mark as “one of
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Bell Gully has retained its market-leading position as a legal adviser for mergers and acquisitions, according to two major international league tables released in January. Annual reviews from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters ranked Bell Gully within the top 20 firms in Australasia in three out of four measures of merger and acquisition activity in 2017.
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