The highlight of Tiana Epati’s year was the birth of her daughter (below), but the COVID-wracked year also saw her entrench and increase her leadership role within the profession, boosting her Power List rankings as one of the country’s most powerful and influential lawyers. As the first person of Polynesian descent to hold the Law […]
Solicitor General Una Jagose oversees the 800 lawyers in Government but hit the headlines with her fronting to the AbuseinCare Royal Commission last year, when she apologised on behalf of the government for the abuse of children. The apology had mixed reviews as she announced her strategy for dealing with the situation. “It might be
Boies Schiller’s Deputy Chair Natasha Harrison is to leave the firm following disclosure of a memo sent around the troubled firm recently with more than one third of the partners having left in the past year. Harrison was appointed to the role Her departure follows the departure at the end of last year of then
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The James Hardie class action settlement left questions about litigation funding
On August 26, 2021, a Buchalter team led by Shareholder Joshua M. Robbins and Special Counsel Thomas Rickeman, won a complete defense verdict for client, Hotel California by the Sea, LLC, ending a five-week jury trial involving what began as over $10 million in claims of whistleblower retaliation. Hotel California by the Sea is an
Australia: State of the Legal Market Report by Thomson Reuters Institute “Law firms responded to market conditions with strategic approaches, and reimagining client experiences,” continued Rhodes. “Firms are taking the opportunity to serve clients better, which is helping to strengthen their relationships. The appetite for digital transformation has never been stronger, creating greater efficiency and
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LOS ANGELES – A disbarred personal-injury lawyer was found guilty by a federal jury today of 22 felonies for stealing the majority of a multimillion-dollar settlement that should have been paid to a car accident victim, as well as cheating on his federal income taxes. Philip James Layfield, a.k.a. “Philip Samuel Pesin,” 48, of Las
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Pittsburgh-based Reed Smith is to cut 66 jobs from its offices in the US and UK, which the firm says is part of its ‘connectivity initiative’ designed to modernize its business. The firm employs 1500 lawyers in 30 offices in the US, UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia. The firm said that it expects 44
The rules relating to ownership of law firms have been changing dramatically in recent years, including the previously forbidden rule of having non-lawyer ownership of law firms, but it is apparently a step too far for US regulators and law firms who continue to tread carefully in such waters. For the United States law firms,
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