Leading London law firm Mischcon de Reya, setting itself up for the UK’s largest law firm float, has had another major setback with an admission that it breached its duty by failing to file a hard copy of an appeal bundle in time on behalf of client, former Premier League football club Sunderland AFC. The […]
Law School admission in the US has long involved the LSAT, but it could become a thing of the past following announced plans made by the US Law School Admission Council this week? The answer is ‘No’, but there are certainly major changes afoot. >> Your law job here The legal education program due to
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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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Among the many thousands taking up arms against the Russian invaders in Ukraine are many lawyers and others, including a Judge from Ukraine’s Supreme Court, Ivan Mishchenko. Media reports say that Mishchenko, a judge of the Supreme Court in Ukraine with a background in commercial litigation, has joined one of the units defending the capital
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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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Australian law firms have had record financial years with the Australian Financial Review reporting strong results for the first half of 2022 due to the financial marketings pushing revenues up by over 13 per cent. The report from Thomson Reuters released last week showed that practice areas continue to grow with Australian law firms outpacing
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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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As cryptocurrency becomes increasingly accepted, some law firms are now beginning to also accept cyrptoasset payments for legal services. In the UK, the first major law firm to accept cryptoasset payments is innovative law firm GunnerCooke who have joined other professional groups who are beginning to do the same thing. In a press release issued
The Metaverse provides major new opportunities for lawyers to develop their ‘metaverse law’ practices
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Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ELLIOT SMERLING pleaded guilty today to a bank fraud scheme that caused the issuance of approximately $140 million in collateralized loans on the basis of forged documents, including subscription agreements from purported limited partners, audit letters attesting to his private equity
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