Kerri Durso Joins Paul Weiss New York, August 19, 2024 – Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that Kerri Durso has joined the firm as a partner in the Finance Group within the Corporate Department, resident in New York. Durso’s practice focuses on broad-based over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives and the negotiation of complex derivatives […]
What Does The 2025 ‘Best Lawyers’ Tell Us About the US Law Business? Tom Borman It’s a big job – to say the least – selecting the best lawyers in America but who better than the leading directory called ‘Best Lawyers in America’? What is perhaps more interesting is the changing landscape in the US,
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Playing Long Game In Class Action Lawsuit The law firms involved in the $2.7 billion NCAA settlement include Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro and Winston & Strawn are seek to reap major fees from the $2.7 billion NCAA settlement, along with Wilkinson Stekloff, led by Rakesh Kilaru, played a significant role in negotiating the ground-breaking settlement
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Mesothelioma Attorneys New York Winners List Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor Seeking the best mesothelioma lawyers in New York is always made easier with a Forbes List and for 2024 the company has provided just that. New York ranks fourth in the U.S. for asbestos-related deaths, with significant numbers of deaths occurring in counties like
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Russell McVeagh Opens First South Island Office Russell McVeagh is set to expand to the South Island, opening an office in Queenstown headed by local lawyer Tony Van Aart of Van Aart Sycamore Lawyers, the Dunedin-based commercial law boutique. The new office opens on 1 December and will take existing staff members from Van Aart
Inappropriate Behaviour Action From The Magic Circle Firm Linklaters has released a statement in response to reports that a partner has been prohibited from consuming alcohol at work events due to allegations of inappropriate behavior. According to The Telegraph, the firm issued a final warning to the partner after a complaint that he had inappropriately
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The Legal AI Case Study Norma Harris, LawFuel contributor Legal AI is overtaking many areas of business and daily life, including law firms who continue to learn how to best embrace the technology rather than being overwhelmed by it. A recent study in Law.com of one law firm, Atlanta-based Barrett & Farahany showed how they
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Kaplan Hires Boost Litigation Boutique Roberta Kaplan, the Trump-beating, prominent Manhattan litigator, is strengthening her newly established litigation boutique, Kaplan Martin, by hiring former colleagues from her previous firm. The firm announced on Thursday that Christopher Le Coney and D. Brandon Trice have joined as partners, moving from their counsel roles at Kaplan Hecker &
Polsinelli has continued its rapid expansion with a raid on Holland & Knight taking 20 partners for the launch of its Philadelphia office in a major ‘partner poaching’ move. This marks Polsinelli’s third office launch since June, following recent expansions in Fort Worth, Texas and Park City, Utah. Polsinelli didn’t name the incoming Holland &
Tom Borman, LawFuel Tech Contributor The recent global IT outage caused by a security update from CrowdStrike has once again indicated the importance of cybersecurity measures for law firms that appeared to have been largely unaffected by the major outage. The outage, related to Microsoft software, disrupted operations at numerous law firms, affecting their ability
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