John Bowie The mess that is Brexit is made for law firms who are there to try and untangle – or even simply predict – how things may play out. And London’s Big Law players are having their time in the Brexit sun. The New York Times reported recently on the City firms that are […]
Connecting a star law firm like Boies Schiller Flexner with a high profile case such as that involving star lawyer Michael Avenatti has become something of a byword for the way in which Boies’ law firm operates. The Avenatti arrest sent an already hyper-intense media into overdrive as the former lawyer for Adult actress Stormy
NEWSRELEASE For Immediate Distribution March 25, 2019 Nicola T. HannaUnited States AttorneyCentral District of California Ciaran McEvoyPublic Information Officerciaran.mcevoy@usdoj.gov(213) 894-4465 Lawyer Michael Avenatti Arrested on Federal Bank Fraud and Wire Fraud Charges LOS ANGELES – Attorney Michael Avenatti was arrested today pursuant to a criminal complaint alleging he embezzled a client’s money in order to pay his own expenses
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The Big Money at Big Law firm Kirkland & Ellis continues to grow, as the Chicago-born legal monolith has surged to a global turnover of US$3.76 billion, with profits per equity (PEP) partner topping $5 million for the first time. Legal Business reports that the firm, which released its 2018 results on 21 March, enjoyed
Will Bartlett* Cyber attacks on law firms continue to be a major threat, one of the latest such techniques being the so-called ‘spear phishing’ approach where hackers contact a target and impersonate a trusted client or individual. But it is a human shield defense rather than just technology against phishing that provides the greatest protection
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Game of Thrones, or “GoT” for the millions who know and love the cult show, has n it would seem, but what is a leading attorney like Matthew Syrkin, a partner and chair of the Hughes Hubbard Media Group, doing behind the scenes. A unique deal, that’s what. In fact, the sort of deal that
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Law firm DWF has been valued at the largest amount of any law firm in Britain’s law firm IPO history with a value of almost $US500m (£366m), the firm announced this week. The legal firm intends offering over 78 million shares to provide £95.2 million, according to a Financial Times report. DWF’s offering is the
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Charles Needham* The Practice of law is increasingly doing away with the notion that ‘lawyers’ in the conventional sense are the ones to provide the advice businesses and people require. The need for lawyers is diminishing, with the onset of technology and ‘new-model legal providers’, who are now handling business and personal issues in a
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LawFuel subscribers will recall our June 2018 article about London’s top-earning lawyers, which featured David Higgins, among others, who left Freshfields to join the aggressively expansive Kirkland & Ellis. Higgins, a private equity lawyer, made the move that some saw as insulting to his old firm and the Magic Circle, but it was nonetheless followed
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Big Bucks From Big Law = Toxic Work Environment Say, Junior Lawyers Tom Bowker – ‘Toxic’ work environments in law firms have been the subject of a contentious letter written by junior UK lawyers, following young laywers struck off after working in difficult conditions. The letter was sent to the UK Junior Solicitors Regulation Authority
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