Climate change risks, costs, and opportunities are now firmly part of the corporate governance landscape. In this FYI we explain why, and what the board’s risk management agenda should include to address this. Our earlier FYI discussed the legislative changes underway in response to climate change risks, the most recent being the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) […]
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Former Linklaters lawyer and potential British PM Dominic Raab has been castigated by his former legal colleagues following his recent debate over the Tory leadership on UK TV. The Channel 4 debate saw the front runners other than THE major front runner Boris Johnson, debate the leadership question, revolving around the current Brexit fiasco. Raab,
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Dallas – June 17, 2019 — Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Timothy J. McCarthy to its Commercial Litigation Practice Group as a Senior Counsel in the firm’s Dallas office. He joins Dykema after two decades of practicing at various firms in New York City, including Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP,
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NEW YORK, June 17, 2019 – Global law firm Reed Smith announced today that Ben Love, an international arbitration lawyer with multijurisdictional experience worldwide, has joined the firm’s International Arbitration practice in New York. Love, who joins from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, is the second seasoned arbitration lawyer added to Reed Smith’s International Arbitration practice in the
Frank Cordner – Attorney General William Barr’s efforts to ‘investigate the investigators’ with an inquiry into the origins of the 2016 Russia investigation has created some serious concerns among many in DC and elsewhere. Will it, for instance, hamper attempts to fight the Kremlin’s political meddling in the next election? And will it provide his
Fiverr International Ltd. (“Fiverr”), an Israeli startup offering an online platform that connects businesses with freelancers, has announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,263,158 ordinary shares at a public offering price of $21.00 per share. The underwriters of the offering will also have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional
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Washington, D.C.—Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, is announcing today a proposed combination with MawereSibanda, a leading law firm in Zimbabwe. This combination builds on Dentons’ strategy to become the first pan-African law firm owned and controlled by Africans. It will also give Dentons’ clients access to the experience and talents of lawyers working in
Leading international law firm, Clifford Chance has launched a year-long trial across the firm’s offices in the Middle East to understand the impact of removing utilisation – total billable hours as a percentage of total hours available to be worked – from its assessment of lawyer contribution and performance. The pilot programme, which will include
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Mark Medice* – Mark Twain is often reputed to have stated that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” This phrase comes to mind when reading recent reports from The American Lawyer on the performance of large law firms in 2018. In its reporting, The American Lawyer observed that the Am Law 100 grew revenue at 8% over
Senior Ashurst lawyer Bernd Egbers, based in the firm’s Munich office, has been as to leave the firm due to “conduct which is contrary to (the firm’s) values’. The actual ‘conduct’ referred to is not disclosed in the statement, but Egbers joined the firm in 2006 from Norton Rose, handling cross-border financial transactions. He became
