The devastation in the Ukraine rendered by Russian forces is one thing, but Moscow is being abandoned with growing force as big law firms continue to desert the Russian legal landscape. Six leading international law firms have announced plans to pull out of Russia today, including global giants Latham & Watkins and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,
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Cravaths’ ‘wow’ factor on mid-level and senior associates’ pay levels The Big Law salary scale just took another push from big law salary payer Cravaths . . Cravaths, along with Davis Polk and Milbank are the ‘troika’, as AbovetheLaw describes them, that lead the way on the big law salary scale and – once again
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‘Londongrad’ is under threat with the Ukraine war and the pressure on ‘enabling’ lawyers who act for oligarchs Lawyers who act for oligarchs in Britain are under intense pressure from multiple quarters to take action against ‘Londongrad’, or the ‘London laundromat’ that is used to launder Russian money. Lord Carlile QC said in the House
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In addition to the unusual mass arbitration Intuit is fighting, federal regulators and state prosecutors are still investigating the company, which made $2 billion dollars last year. Justin Elliott* Faced with a class-action suit filed on behalf of customers who claim they were tricked into paying to file their taxes, TurboTax-maker Intuit knocked the case
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Sanctions include blocking orders against two state-owned Russian financial institutions, expanded restrictions on Russian sovereign debt, and prohibitions on transactions in separatist regions. Starting on February 21, 2022, the Biden administration began to issue a “first tranche” of economic sanctions against the Russian Federation in response to what President Joe Biden has called “the
Truck crashes occurs in a disturbingly growing manner as trucking remains the means by which about 70 per cent of all products distributed in the United States reach their destination. The growth in the truck crash rate is a cause for concern and truck crash liability is also an area of law that occupies a
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Las Vegas is a city that thrives on entertainment and excitement. It is also home to some significant criminal activity conducted in the ‘city that never sleeps’. The types of felonies in Las Vegas are as diverse as the city’s landscape. Some of the many millions who visit the city are interested to know
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Kirkland & Ellis is a billion dollar revenue machine but it still faces issues attracting key legal talent – why?
‘What pandemic?’ the legal services markets seem to say . . Legal services revenues have not been touched by the pandemic during the past year, according to figures in the UK that show a major growth in revenues for the sector – a fact that is also evident with the US legal sector. The UK’s
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