The Legally Blonde Moment for Reese Witherspoon Lights, camera, jury duty! Reese Witherspoon’s courtroom drama wasn’t on the big screen this time. It was real life, baby! Telling all on the top UK show “The Graham Norton Show,” Witherspoon shared the experience of how she once had to serve on the jury for a two-week […]
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Disney Law’s Pay Packet Disney’s Chief Legal Office is on no Mickey Mouse pay deal, taking home almost $16 million in 2024, making him one of the entertainment and media world’s best-paid lawyers. The pay rise was 36 percent above his previous earnings. Horacio Gutierrez’s compensation package included nearly $10 million in stock and option
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Paul Weiss has recruited a lawyer who has been involved in some of the largest M&A deals in recent years. Matthew Friestedt, who previously led the executive compensation practice at Sullivan & Cromwell and played a key role in the firm’s executive compensation M&A group, will join Paul Weiss as a partner in their New
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The Prince Harry Files Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor In media law, where celebrities clash with tabloids and royals battle publishers, one name stands out like a perfectly coiffed beacon: David Sherborne, the barrister who has just won a major victory for Prince Harry against Mirror Group Newspapers. This “barrister to the stars” has become
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Clifford Chance’s Big Appointment News Clifford Chance has appointed Chinwe Odimba-Chapman as its new London managing partner and co-regional managing partner for Europe, effective January 1, 2025. The appointment makes Odimba-Chapman the first black London managing partner in the firm’s history. Odimba-Chapman is a distinguished employment law partner, who joined Clifford Chance as a trainee
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Fighting Nazis, Crime & Fraud Martin Estrada , the trailblazing U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, has announced his resignation after a remarkable tenure that began in September 2022. As the first U.S. Attorney of Central American heritage to lead the nation’s most populous federal district, Estrada’s departure marks the end of an
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15 Jaw-Dropping Career Switches You Have to See to Believe Ben Thomson, LawFuel editor When law students dream of their future careers, most envision courtrooms and client meetings. But some law graduates have blazed entirely different trails, trading legal briefs for movie scripts, campaign speeches, retain and hospitality business, sport and activism. Their stories reveal
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The Boies Schiller Surprise Comeback Plan Sonia Hickey, Contributing editor Matthew Schwartz, the newly minted chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner, has taken the reins of one of the most prestigious litigation firms in the country and has clear plans to restore the luster of the firm after recent stumbles. At 47, this former Manhattan federal
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Two entertainment lawyers from Reed Smith’s LA office have been named to the Variety ‘Dealmakers Impact Report 2024’. Steve Sessa (above left) and Josh Love, are partners in the firm’s Global Entertainment and Media Industry Group, and are among a group of lawyers, financiers, entrepreneurs, and executives recognized as the top dealmakers in the entertainment
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The Big Law compensation landscape is shifting faster than a lawyer’s billable hours during tax season. If you thought partner pay was already in the stratosphere, the liftoff has only just begun awith changes like the ‘black box’ compensation structure, new nonequity tiers, different bonus pools and other changes that bring the profession into a
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