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Good Lawyers Are Hard To Find, So Why Aren’t Law Firms Doing More To Keep Them?

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Good lawyers are increasingly hard to find with demand set to grow. However, recent research uncovers that many firms may be under-utilising key tools & strategies available to attract top talent. Salaries have remained flat despite obvious, and continuing, high demand for quality personnel. These are among the top findings of the 2019 Australasian Legal Practice […]

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Hogan Lovells Successfully Defends Growth Equity Fund Client in a Securities Action Case

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a victory that Dennis Tracey, Robin Muir, and Peter Romeo secured for Technology Crossover Ventures, which provides capital to growth-stage private and public technology companies.   In the now-dismissed action, the plaintiff incorrectly claimed that TCV had realized profits on lawful purchases and sales that are recoverable under Section

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US College Bribery Scandal Sees One Big Law Firm Score A ‘D’ For Crisis Management

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John Bowie* Willkie Farr & Gallagher has placed its co-chairman, Gordon Caplan on a leave of absence following the US college fraud scheme that has lead to the arrests of dozens of people and embroiled actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlan. The scandal involves bribes used to get the children of wealthy individuals, including CEOs,

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Cleary Gottlieb Celebrates Its Women Lawyers

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As part of Cleary Gottlieb’s celebration of International Women’s Day, we’re spotlighting the firm’s women lawyers who have earned outstanding recognition from prominent business and legal publications. In the last year, a total of 25 women received 29 awards, with honorees based in various offices across the firm, including Brussels, Cologne, Frankfurt, London, Milan, Moscow,

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Hogan Lovells Add Litigator From Koch Companies to Expand Texas Practice

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Jennifer Adams joins Hogan Lovells from Koch, expanding the Environment and Natural Resources practice in Texas HOUSTON, 13 March 2019 – Hogan Lovells announced today that Jennifer Adams has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner in its Environment and Natural Resource practice. Adams joins the firm from Koch Companies Public Sector, where she

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High Risks For Publishers With New Public Interest Defence

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The embedding of the public interest defence to defamation has raised the bar for publishers, Chapman Tripp says. The public interest defence differs from the Lange qualified privilege defence, which it replaces, in two key ways: it shifts the burden of proof from the complainant to the publisher, and it requires the publisher to prove not only

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Former Senior KPMG Audit Partner Involved in “Chain of Corruption” Over PCAOB Info

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 Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID MIDDENDORF, who was the National Managing Partner for audit quality at the accounting firm KPMG LLP (“KPMG”), and JEFFREY WADA a former employee of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”), were convicted of wire fraud charges in

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Doing Away With Lawyers . . Why ‘The Law’ Is Increasingly Dispensing With Lawyers

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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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Former Congressman Michael Capuano Joins Foley in Boston

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FOLEY ADDS FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL CAPUANO IN BOSTON BOSTON, MASS. ­– Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that former U.S. Congressman Michael Capuano has joined the firm’s Government Solutions Practice as a public affairs director, splitting his time between the firm’s Boston and Washington D.C. offices. He joins Foley’s team of former Congressmen, which includes public affairs directors Dennis Cardoza and Scott Klug,

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US Magic Circle Spoilers Continue to Disrupt The City

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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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