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Record-Setting IPO Lawyer Esha Goel at Lathams Named Rising Star in Singapore

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The Capital Markets counsel was recognized for her work advising on record-setting IPOs in India. Asian Legal Business named Singapore counsel Esha Goel to its Singapore Rising Stars 2026 list. The annual list showcases the most promising next-generation lawyers in Singapore, recognized for their exceptional talent and potential. Esha brings a unique cross-border perspective to her […]

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From Sorbonne to the Riviera: The Young Lawyer Building a Modern Practice in Monaco

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Monaco’s New Legal Generation – Inside Maeva Zampori’s Unusual Life at the Bar Sonia Hickey Monaco is a place of contradictions. It is smaller than New York’s Central Park, yet hosts some of the world’s wealthiest residents. Ferraris idle beside fishing boats. Billionaires and baristas share the same narrow streets. And somewhere between the superyachts

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How Todd Mensing, Attorney for the Defense, Helped Break a 75-0 Capital Murder Trial Streak in Harris County

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Article source: AZA Law Before the jurors in State of Texas v. Johnson sent their final note to the judge, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office had not lost a capital murder trial in 75 attempts. The jurors were split eight to five for acquittal, the court declared a mistrial, and after the state declined

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The KC Who Built the Case Against Men in Women’s Sport

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The sports lawyer nobody sends a thank-you card Every era of sport gets the villain it deserves, and for a decade of gender-eligibility wars the casting has barely changed: a softly-spoken commercial litigator in a London office who keeps winning. His name is Jonathan Taylor KC, he is a partner at Bird & Bird, and

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AI Won’t Hollow Out the Graduates, Says eBay’s Legal Chief

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Samantha Wellington, eBay’s senior vice president and chief legal officer, thinks the profession is panicking about the wrong people. AI will not gut the graduate ranks, she argues, because the AI-native juniors are the ones teaching firms how to rebuild their workflows. The lawyers who should be nervous are the mid-career middle managers, and anyone

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The Rise of Justin Smith – How a Missouri Boutique Cornered the Federal Judiciary

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Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor The confirmation of Justin Smith to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is a major moment in Donald Trump’s second‑term judicial strategy. The Senate voted along party lines to hand Smith a lifetime seat on a key federal appeals court that covers seven states. To much

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Freshfields Partner Eva Y. Mak Named to Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 2026 40 Under 40 List

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Partner Eva Y. Mak has been named to the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list for 2026. This annual list honors 40 rising stars in Silicon Valley who have distinguished themselves in their companies, communities and industries. Eva is a private capital M&A partner based in Silicon Valley and San Francisco with extensive experience

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Australian New Law Pioneer Named in Australian Law Awards

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Lawyers Weekly’s Australian Law Awards are rarely short of competition, particularly among the growing ranks of boutique and NewLaw firms challenging the old guard. This year, one of the finalists attracting attention is Amanda Harrison, founder of Melbourne-based Pivotal Law Group, whose nomination reflects the continuing rise of specialist firms built around commercial practicality rather

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The OpenAI Defense: Inside the Wachtell Trial Team That Just Beat Elon Musk

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While Elon Musk’s legal team tried to transform a federal courtroom in Oakland, California into an existential debate about the fate of human civilization and a “stolen charity,” Sam Altman’s defenders quietly built a procedural guillotine.

A unanimous nine-member federal advisory jury took less than two hours to reject all of Musk’s claims against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, and President Greg Brockman, which presumably was both surprising and disappointing for the multi-billionaire.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers immediately adopted the verdict from the bench, dismissing the case in full. The same statute-of-limitations finding wiped out Musk’s aiding-and-abetting claim against Microsoft, an early backer of OpenAI’s for-profit arm.

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The $8 Billion Fight That Shows Why Litigation Is Still the City’s Ultimate Blood Sport

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A monster battle is unfolding in the sprawling claim against audit powerhouse PwC, born from the spectacular implosion of Chinese property behemoth China Evergrande, the most indebted property group in the world.

Senior silks like Richard Handyside KC, the Fountain Court Chambers’ Head, are facing off against those from 3 Verulam Buildings (3VB) where Adrian Beltrami KC  represents the liquidators as they battle over allegations of negligence and misrepresentation in the $8.4 billion battle.

The numbers are eye-watering, even by City standards. Evergrande’s liquidators (led by Alvarez & Marsal’s Edward Middleton and Tiffany Wong) are pursuing 57 billion yuan (roughly $8.4 billion) in damages from PwC International, PwC Hong Kong, and PwC’s mainland China arm. They allege serious audit negligence and misrepresentation in the years leading up to Evergrande’s historic collapse, a King-sized property failure in a long list of major property failures.

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