Law firm mergers are set to dramatically increase in 2021 after the pandemic, with some predictions indicating a four-fold increase in mergers is coming. A report from Altman Weil makes the prediction, showing mergers began a rebound in the first quarter of 2021 with 26 transactions which would break the number of mergers last year […]
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The Google lawsuit involved code used in the Android operating system and has been a landmark copyright dispute Google has succeeded in its long-running lawsuit against Oracle over software used in the Android mobile platform, with a 6-2 decision involving around 12,000 lines of code. The code was taken from the Java application programming interface
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While Russell McVeagh have announced the return of firm alumni in a recent press release, there has been nothing said about the departure this year of star tax partner Brendan Brown. Tax partner Brendan Brown, a highly respected practitioner, has left the firm to join Mayne Weatherell with little-to-know fanfare from either firm. Formerly National Chair of
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A victory to Vergara over the control of frozen embryos provides an insight into right-to-live lawsuits, another fast-growing area of law that family lawyers everywhere need to be aware of Actress Sofia Vergara has succeeded in her ongoing lawsuit with her former fiance Nick Loeb over their frozen embryos in a long legal battle that
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Speaking out against the Uighur Muslim group has seen China impose sanctions against Essex Court Chambers and aroused the ire of international barrister Michael Polak China has stepped up its sanctions against just about everyone in the West it would appear, but one of those recently targeted has been leading London-based barristers chambers Essex Court,
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It’s smaller firms leading the Twitter charge but Donald Trump may have put others off the platform’s advantages The smaller firms and one of the oldest in New Zealand are leading the Twitter charge while the bigger law firms lag in the rankings here. Among the Big Law contenders, Meredith Connell have 122 followers, Anderson
It may have taken three years, but the Law Society has now pressed charges of alleged misconduct against the former partner The former Russell McVeagh partner who left the firm following the allegations of #MeToo sexual misconduct involving summer interns is to face misconduct charges before the Law Society on May 17. The former partner
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the legal profession like every other business, but some law firms are taking the whole work-from-home trend a step further Linklaters is one of the world’s largest firms, with over $2 bn in gross billings and making it in the top ranks of the world’s largest law firms. It has
The Big Law firm has hit profit per partner of $4.52 million Big Law doesn’t get much bigger than Latham & Watkins post a $4.3bn revenue on the back of pandemic restructuring, deals and just plenty of fee-earning business. Revenue growth has been 15 per cent – not bad during a global pandemic that Latham
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Dentons have encountered continuing issues in their Middle East operations with recent news that the world’s largest law firm has now encountered problems operating in the Sultanate following a case taken by a local law firm against Dentons. The case taken by the Omani law firm operating in the same field as Dentons had resulted
