Why Are K&L Gates Losing Partners?
Why are K&L Gates partners leaving
Boies Schiller Add High Profile Justice Lawyer for High Stakes Litigation Role
Powered by LawFuel – Boies Schiller Flexner LLP today announced that , the former acting Associate Attorney General of the United States, will join the firm in Washington D.C. and Florida as a partner, focusing on high-stakes litigation and appeals, regulatory counseling, enforcement defense, and crisis management. Panuccio has served at the highest levels of
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‘Scrappy, Middle Class Kid’ Who Became Prominent Kirkland Lawyer Dies at 46
Kevin Morris, a prominent Kirkland & Ellis private equity partner, died this week at age 46 after a three-year battle with brain cancer. Morris was one of only a small number of African American lawyers heavily involved in dealmaking in major law firms. He had worked at Kirkland all his career with the firm saying
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Ogletree Deakins Boosts Employment and Benefits Capabilities in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS – November 14, 2019 – Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce that Scott Preston and Tiffany Hofmeister have joined the firm’s Indianapolis office as shareholder and of counsel respectively. Preston joins the firm from Jackson Lewis, where he was a principal and the
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Reed Smith becomes first international law firm to gain ABS license
Regulatory approval enables firm to broaden client services, attract wider pool of top talent and be more agile. LONDON – Global law firm Reed Smith today announced that it has become the first international law firm to convert to an Alternative Business Structure (ABS), after receiving approval from the UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority. Unlike the
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Clifford Chance and the Robots: Firm Launches Robotics LegalTech Training in Asia Pacific
Clifford Chance has started an interesting robotics training programme, together with ‘Josef’, a legal automation platform, to train lawyers on how to work with a ‘no code’ platform to develop contracts. LawFuel wrote about Melbourne-based legal ‘bot’ Josef and receiving investment funding earlier this year. The firm’s press release explaining the initiative is below –
The Law Firm Battle That Reads Like a Grisham Legal Thriller
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. . And Now the DLA Partner Accusing Colleague Is Placed on Leave
The DLA Piper partner who accused colleague and DLA Piper partner Louis Lehot of sexually assaulting her has been placed on leave herself. The firm said that it was placing Vanina Guerrero on paid leave while it investigates “serious issues” with her conduct that it called unrelated to her accusations against Lehot. Guerrero had earlier
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Big Law Firm Investigated For WhatsApp ‘T*ts and Filth’ Group
Amid the #Metoo era and major efforts by the law profession to stamp out the culture issues that come with sexist, gender-offensive activity a major law firm is reportedly investigating a “highly offensive” text messaging group about female trainee solicitors. The Independent said it had received a statement from the big law firm confirming the
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Big Grossing Kirkland Promotes Record Number of Partners
As the world’s highest-grossing law firm, Kirkland & Ellis is used to pushing the limits and has done so again making 141 partners in the largest partner-promotion in a big law firm. The firm promoted 122 partners last year and interestingly it works to fast-track associates to partnership in contrast to many firms that increasingly
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