Mandatory retirement age restrictions have been a bugbear for employers – and employees – for as long as there has ben retirement. But for a Vancouver law firm, the issue has been taken to the Supreme Court of Canada, which has ruled that law firms and other partnershps can force partners to retire. Why? Because […]
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The problem or issue of the rain-making, king-hitting “gorilla” lawyer, the ones that are the big billers and big earners, is something that most firms value of necessity. But is that a correct standpoint. Legal consultant Tony Williams is a princpal of London-based Jomati Consultants and has worked internationally as a worldwide managing partner of
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Mountain View, CA (May 16, 2014) – Fenwick & West, one of the nation’s premier law firms providing comprehensive legal services to high technology and life science clients, today announced the results of its First Quarter 2014 Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey. The survey analyzed the valuations and terms of venture financings for 156 technology and
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Law firms are “late developers in talent management” according to Mary Cranston, former chair of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and successful class action litigator and company director. Interviewed by LawFuel publisher John Bowie, Mary Cranston has established herself as an innovative pioneer in terms of diversity employment practices, starting with her role as Pillsbury
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Lawyers representing former New England Patriots tight Aaron Hernandez have been kept busy by the footballer as he faces two counts of first degree murder in 2012 and were seeking the dismissal of a first degree murder indictment for a fatal shooting in 2013. Hernandez is currently in jail on the separate, 2013 killing of
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Reuters correspondent Alison Frankel writes about the judgment of US District Court McMahon and her references to incentive fees – they are a “bugaboo for McMahon,” she writes. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon of Manhattan included a highly unusual warning in her recent opinion approving the $15 million settlement of a securities class action against
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Cheryl Garcia, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations (“USDOL-OIG”), and Peter M. Rivera, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Labor
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The American Lawyer’s annual law firm rankings show some of the biggest are using a Swiss legal partnership to keep country profits separate. All of the firms have set up “vereins”—a Swiss legal partnership that lets the law firms maintain separate national or regional profit pools under a single brand. The AmLaw rankings also
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It has been an extraordinary move in a marathon legal battle between oil giant Chevron and the DC law and lobbying firm Patton Boggs. The latter, representing Ecudorian rain forest residents and having vowed to ensure a judgment against Chevron would be enforced have suddenly withdrawn and agreed to pay Chevron $15 million. The case
LawFuel — Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Key Energy Services, Inc. (“Key Energy” or the “Company”) KEG -1.19% . Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at rswilloughby@pomlaw.com or 1-888-476-6529, ext. 237. The investigation concerns whether Key Energy and certain of its officers and/or directors have violated Sections 10(b)
