Three in Shareholder Activism Practice; Two in Litigation Practice; One in Real Estate Law Practice; One in Corporate/Securities Law Practice NEW YORK, December 13, 2018 – Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP, one of the premier mid-sized law firms in the country, today announced that six lawyers have been promoted to partner and one lawyer has been promoted to
ATLANTA – John Koenig has been elected managing partner of Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Atlanta office, effective November 5, 2018. Koenig succeeds Stuart Johnson, a veteran corporate and transactional attorney who joined the firm to open the Atlanta office in 2009. Johnson will return to the full-time practice of law, in which he advises middle market
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Slaughter and May advised the Arsenal Football Club on the battery storage project with Pivot Power at Emirates Stadium. The project is one of the largest of its kind at any sports ground in the world, and is capable of powering the 60,000-seat stadium for an entire match.
FinanceAsia has named Davis Polk “Best Law Firm” as part of its 2018 Achievement Awards. The awards recognize the most impressive deals across Asia from the past year and the organizations that make them happen. Davis Polk was also recognized in the capital markets space, receiving “Best Investment Grade Bond” for our involvement in ChemChina’s $6.4 billion equivalent six-tranche
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By MAS The ways that cyberbullying occurs are diverse: calling people offensive names online, posting embarrassing content (including photos and videos), discrediting or posting false information, ostracism and exclusion, stalking or harassing via phone or web, impersonating someone, sexually harassing, threatening and intimidating. Over the last 10 years these hazards of our online environment have
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David Weavers, Banking and Finance, Auckland David is a home-grown talent, beginning his career at Russell McVeagh before basing himself in London with New York firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, and then in Hong Kong with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Returning to the firm last year, he advises financial institutions, private equity
Over Two-Thirds of Americans (69%) Say They Would Use Online Legal Services to Save MoneyPORTLAND, OR (December 10, 2018) – Results from a new survey conducted online by The Harris Poll on behalf of Your Lawyers Online show there is nearly universal agreement among Americans that legal fees today are extremely expensive, with over 9 in 10 (91
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector in Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), Ari C. Shapira, Special Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”), and
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Eric Styles* Simpson Grierson’s photoshopping misadventure may not be of the scale of Russell McVeagh’s sexual harassment disasters, but in media terms it scored the firm all the publicity it didn’t need. While any publicity is (by some accounts) good, for law firms seeking to paint the perfect picture of themselves the clumsy and –
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Slaughter & May What if all it took to build a nuclear bomb were a piece of glass, a metal object and a battery? What if the discovery of nuclear fission had allowed any person to unleash devastating destruction simply, with commonly available tools? Would civilization still exist? This is one of the thought experiments
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