Robert Rhoda, the former international arbitration head in Hong Kong of Denton’s has joined Mishcon de Reya working from the firm’s London and Hong Kong offices. Mischcon’s media announcement on the appointment is below – Mishcon de Reya has announced that Robert Rhoda has joined the firm as a partner in its Disputes department. Robert is an […]
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The latest round of Biglaw associate salary increases has been unusually quiet this summer, with only a handful of firms matching Milbank’s elevated scale. Ice Miller has now joined the fray but with conditions – it is only for its New York associates, and the higher paychecks won’t arrive until next year. The firm announced
Ashurst’s exit from Canberra has handed mid-tier rival Thomsons a major windfall, vaulting it into second place among firms advising the Commonwealth. In early 2025, Ashurst jettisoned roughly 60 staff and seven partners from its Canberra office and stepped back from the bulk of its Commonwealth government work, as a result of margin pressure and
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is launching a Chicago office by hiring five partners from Kirkland & Ellis: Ryan Harris (Managing Partner of the new office), Cole Parker, Kyle McHugh, Ryan Jackson, and Ziyad Ziyadzade. The group specializes in middle-market private equity and family office work, advising on M&A, leveraged buyouts, growth investments, restructurings, and
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Key Takeaway Law firms poured record money into AI through 2025, with technology spend up 9.7% and knowledge-management investment up 37.2% since 2021. New BARBRI research finds most firms rolled the tools out faster than they built any way to measure whether lawyers actually work differently. The question underneath: firms are deploying software that does
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Holland & Knight announced on August 6, 2026, the opening of the Firm’s new office in Huntsville, Alabama, its 36th location worldwide. Intellectual Property attorney Ryan Letson will lead the Huntsville office as executive partner, and International Trade attorney Andrew Tuggle joins him as a founding member. Holland & Knight Chair and Chief Executive Officer
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Wachtell’s Summer of Love – And The Day Marty’s Firm Got Old What would brilliant lawyer Marty Lipton make of it? Restructuring and finance partners walking out in unison, litigation partners follow and a partner is filmed cosying up in Bryant Park when he should probably be billing. The once‑unthinkable idea of Wachtell Lipton coming
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The merger of US-based Winston & Strawn with Taylor Wessing’s UK-led business is set to test demand for intellectual property counsel capable of straddling the geographic divide. But unlike most transatlantic partnerships, IP was not just another practice area in need of integration — it was a “key driver” of the decision to join forces, two Winston
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What Brown Rudnick’s Major Hire Signals For Big Law’s Lateral Wars Brown Rudnick has just fired another shot in Big Law’s lateral wars, landing the largest group hire in the firm’s history and using it to plant a fresh flag in Silicon Valley. The Boston‑headquartered firm has recruited a 34‑lawyer intellectual property litigation and patent
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Munich – Global law firm K&L Gates welcomes intellectual property partners Dr. Christian Wende (pictured) and Markus Eustermann and their team in Munich. The nine-person group, which will include patent attorneys, trainees, and specialists, joins K&L Gates from WENDE IP, a boutique German intellectual property law firm founded by Wende and Eustermann. Wende and Eustermann advise clients on a broad
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