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Skadden Arps Wins Career Management & Diversity Award

Skadden received the best practice award for career management and diversity at the 11th annual Legal Trophies ceremony in Paris on November 28. [wp_ad_camp-3] The event acknowledges the achievements of private practitioners, in-house lawyers and others in the French legal profession. The firm was recognized for its efforts in career development, including mentoring and training […]

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Financial Industry Group Partner Added to Reed Smith in DC

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Angelovska-Wilson Bolsters Financial Services Regulatory Practice   (December 3, 2013, Washington, DC)– Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Angela Angelovska-Wilson as a partner its Financial Industry Group (FIG), which comprises some 275 attorneys worldwide. Angelovska-Wilson, former counsel at Latham & Watkins LLP, will work from the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. “Angela is widely

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LexisNexis Acquires China Legal Information Provider

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HONG KONG, Nov. 27, 2013 LawFuel.com Law News Daily — LexisNexis® recently acquired Greater China’s leading practical legal information provider, LegalStudio®. With an extensive library of fully bi-lingual Chinese commercial contracts supported by daily legal and tax news updates, articles and commentaries, LegalStudio® offers critical support to legal professionals in companies and law firms across

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Law Firm Mergers at Record High

Law firms are facing a record year of mergers, notwithstanding the canning of the proposed merger between Orrick Herrington and Pillsbury Winthrop, announced today.   Reuters reported that Orrick Chairman Mitch Zuklie and Pillsbury Chairman James Rishwain said in a joint interview that a conflict of interest between clients in Orrick’s public finance practice and

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Former Animal Planet Television Host Pleads Guilty to Selling Endangered Wildlife

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  LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – Donald Schultz, 35, of Playa Vista, the former host of Animal Planet’s “Wild Recon” television show, pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of violating the Endangered Species Act by offering to sell, and selling, two live desert monitor lizards (Varanus griseus) in interstate commerce. [wp_ad_camp_1] In the plea

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Equity Partners Being Squeezed From Bigger Law Firms

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Squeezing equity partners out of partnerships in order to squeeze more profits out of law firms has become a “managed equity” way to generate more income in a “down” law market, according to reports from Australia, but the same is reportedly occurring in other jurisdictions as well. Shoulder-tapping equity partners in large firms has been

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Dallas Law Firm Welcomes New Associate to Fidelity & Surety Practice Unit

Dallas, Texas — Strasburger & Price, LLP (Strasburger) is pleased to welcome Rebecca Fitzgibbons Nichols to its Dallas office’s Fidelity & Surety Practice Unit. Nichols joined the firm as an associate. She received her law degree from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law School in 2012 and focuses her practice primarily in the areas

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