LawFuel.com – Law Firm News & Marketing – Adams and Reese is saddened to announce that our Partner, Henry Evans Simpson, passed away earlier today, July 8, 2013. Henry was an accomplished banking and finance litigator practicing in the firm’s Birmingham office and a leader of our Banking and Finance Team. Henry practiced law for […]
Clifford Chance may have suffered from a fall in partnership profits, but it hasn’t prevented the partners taking home £1 million each. Their profits are not quite what some of the Magic Circle firm’s rivals are making, with Linklaters partners taking more than £1.3 million in the financial year, and Freshfields partners taking home an
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Part-time law work may pay well for some,but for members of New York’s State Legislature it can earn people like Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver (pictured) up to $450,000 a year. According to financial dislosure filings released this week under the state’s new ethics law, part time work with law firms has been a major earner
Raj Shah, a partner in DLA Piper’s Litigation practice, has been named to The National Law Journal’s “Chicago’s 40 Under 40” list. The honor recognizes top young talent in Chicago that will play a leading role in the legal community for many years to come. Shah is profiled in a July 1 special report. The
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Nudging 80, Robert A G Monks is a corporate lawyer, venture capitalist and corporate director. He is also still working hard at trying to change corporate America. From the New York Times. At age 79, many people who can afford to do so are done working. Not Robert A. G. Monks. He is still hard
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Fiona Shackleton is Britain’s most famous divorce lawyer. She represented Sir Paul McCartney when he divorced Heather Mills, a case that saw Mills’ achieve some further infamy when she poured water over Shackleton’s head. Now, Fiona Shackleton, who as a Conservative Party peer is properly entitled “Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia”, is being sued by a
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Lawyer Wendy Musielak was given the prestigious honor as 2013 Lawyer of the Year by the (DCBA). Ms. Musielak was recognized for her commitment to her community and area legal associations. Ms. Musielak is dedicated to her memberships to the DuPage Association of Women Lawyers (DAWL) and the DCBA. She was bestowed with her Lawyer
What’s a blue-blooded law firm doing mixing with white collar criminal lawyers? How is Wall Street, the arena for M&A work, cross-border currency trades and multi-tiered financing deals, doing having lawyers who handle crime in their midst? The reason, quite simply, is the rise in white collar criminal work. And it’s not to be sneezed
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(May 30, 2013, New York) – Reed Smith LLP, a leading international law firm, today announced the addition of James A. Mercadante as a partner in its firmwide Corporate & Securities Group in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Mercadante’s practice focuses on capital raising and transactional activities of private equity funds, hedge funds
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The Hollywood Reporter has unveiled its list of the most powerful entertainment lawyers in America and given the massive size of the entertainment business in the US these are some of the most powerful lawyers in the country, like Skadden Arps’ Michael . The only thing is, like Skadden Arps, acting for The Disney Company
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