John Bowie A story in the New York Times earlier this year created high interest everywhere, not the least among the former crisply-suited legal colleagues of the distinguished-looking, down-on-his-luck lawyer Gregory Owens. The problem faced by Mr Owens is that one of his law firms went belly up and he had entered the world of […]
International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges is advising FTSE 250 company RPC Group Plc, one of the world’s leading suppliers of rigid plastic packaging, in its planned acquisition of Hong Kong headquartered ACE Corporation Holdings Limited, for an initial consideration of US$301 million (£178 million) and a total consideration of up to US$430 million
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Toby Moffett will co-lead US legislative affairs and help coordinate firm’s activities in Africa Washington, DC, 1 May 2014 – Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that former US Representative Toby Moffett has joined the firm in Washington DC as a senior advisor in its Government & Global Trade
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The glory days of Big Law are gone for most of the American Lawyer Top 100 firms, according to the latest report. It’s not all bad news, but its not exactly exciting times either for Big Law as cost cutting measures, slower client demand, discounting fees and the overall effect of the financial crisis bringing
Women in law continues to be an area of growing interest – not just for women but also for the law profession. And so Yale’s “Women in Law” report on the Top 10 Family Friendly law firms is a matter of considerable interest. The survey involves Vault 100 law firms and looks at issues ranging
Law firm mergers are hardly anything new, but watching small firms grown into big ones is one of the trends encouraged through deregulated markets, like the UK legal market. And so the most recent news of a UK legal merger, between a firm that had its origins in Liverpool over 200 years ago and
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Law firm marketing is an ongoing battle, but the battle for the law marketplace has become harder as inhouse law departments do their comparison shopping for legal work. Attorney at Law’s Elizabeth Lampert, who runs Elizabeth Lampert PR, along with Nigel Savage of Savage Communications, both of which assist law firms with their directory and
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A storm has erupted over the law firm at the center of the investigation of Jackson Kelly, the sponsor of a mining convention in Denver where Senator Joe Manchin, a close ally of the coal industry, launched his defense of his “dear friends” at the law firm that has been at the center of coal
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As more law firms fail the risk of hiring laterals has placed the hiring law firms in line for potential legal action by the bankruptcy trustee of the failed firm. Arnold & Porter partners wrote the following for Law360, dealing with issues about minimizing risk in lateral hires. By Lisa Hill Fenning, Pamela Phillips, Jonathan
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The death of the hourly fee has been predicted with varying degrees of confidence for some years – but will it ever happen? Well, it is occurring slowly but surely among a growing number of law firms who are continuing to experiment with alternative fee arrangements and to think outside the hourly fee square. The
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