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King & Spalding Goes Shopping for Arbitration Heavyweights

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King & Spalding is making a conspicuously expensive-looking play for global arbitration dominance. Its latest recruit is Thomas Voisin, former managing partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Paris office, who joins after handling more than 100 commercial and investment arbitrations. Voisin becomes the ninth international disputes partner recruited in just three months. The real statement came earlier […]

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The Former ANC Leader and Lawyer Who Took Shares Instead Of Fees And Built A Business Empire

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Power Point: South African lawyer and former politician Mathews Phosa pursued an unusual approach to legal fees: helping mining communities secure and develop mineral rights and, in some cases, taking equity rather than conventional fees. Decades later, his business interests stretch across mining, forestry, logistics and other sectors, although claims about the precise size of

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Texas Trial Lawyer Tony Buzbee Buys $15.5 Million Mansion Next Door. Then Calls In The Wrecking Ball

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Power Point – Tony Buzbee’s latest River Oaks acquisition isn’t simply another trophy-home purchase. The Houston trial lawyer is assembling a two-acre estate by demolishing a 15,000-square-foot neighbouring mansion, while salvaging an estimated $4 million of its contents and building gardens in its place. It is an unusually vivid glimpse of the wealth generated at

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Former McGuireWoods Deputy Managing Partner Todd Steggerda Sworn In as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva 

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McGuireWoods congratulates former Deputy Managing Partner Todd Steggerda, who was sworn in on Monday as the new U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva.    Ambassador Steggerda held key firm leadership roles since joining McGuireWoods in 2015. Leveraging his experience as a United States

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Paul, Weiss Poaches Supreme Court Star William Jay From Goodwin

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Paul, Weiss has recruited prominent Supreme Court and appellate advocate William M. Jay from Goodwin Proctor to lead its Washington, D.C.-based Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation Practice. A former Assistant to the Solicitor General and clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, Jay brings deep high-court credentials, having argued 19 cases before the US Supreme Court and

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From Phone-Hacking Hero to Courtroom Zero – ‘Golden Boy’ Lawyer’s Reputation Tattered By Prince Harry Defeat

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Golden Lawyer Tarnished: Sherborne’s High-Stakes Privacy Battle Ends in Humiliation Celebrity barrister David Sherborne, long the go-to “barrister to the stars” with the permanent tan, wind-swept locks and A-list Rolodex,has taken a severe bruising after the comprehensive collapse of Prince Harry’s privacy claim against Associated Newspapers. The Times reported his recent appearance in fancy Belgravia

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These 11 Lawyers Have Been Client Service All-Stars Three Years Running — Here’s Why

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Corporate counsel have named just 256 attorneys from 129 firms as the absolute best at client service in BTI Consulting Group’s 25th annual ranking. The list is purely organic, without submissions, self-nominations, or payments. That’s cool, right? Only clients identify individuals by name based on real-world performance. Who Are The Standout Lawyers? Eleven attorneys have

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Wachtell’s Waterloo And The Chaos Marty Lipton Spent 50 Years Preventing

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Wachtell’s Summer of Love – And The Day Marty’s Firm Got Old What would brilliant lawyer Marty Lipton make of it? Restructuring and finance partners walking out in unison, litigation partners follow and a partner is filmed cosying up in Bryant Park when he should probably be billing. The once‑unthinkable idea of Wachtell Lipton coming

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From Death Row to Comedy Festival How This Lawyer Found Punchlines in the Darkest Place

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Some lawyers bill by the hour. Others spend years trying to stop the state from killing their clients. American capital defence lawyer‑turned‑comedian Josh Pickar has somehow managed to do both law and stand‑up, arguing that the two professions have more in common than most civilians would comfortably admit. Both depend on storytelling, timing and finding

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The $20 Billion World Cup Sell-Off Collapsed in Seven Days. The Lawyers Are Fine.

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A capital raise that valued the World Cup’s commercial engine at $20 billion. A magic circle firm quietly hoovering up FIFA’s top litigators a fortnight earlier. One of those lasted a week. Guess which. The battle for football’s future was supposed to be fought in Manhattan conference rooms, but it was over almost before it

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