LawFuel Premiers The Legal Stars Behind The Netflix Mega-Deal Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing writer Hollywood finally did what everyone feared it might do and handed the keys to the Warner Bros kingdom to the world’s rrichest and determined binge machine, Netflix in an $82.7 billion deal that has involved platoons of lawyers. The deal is […]
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Did Amal Clooney Really Work for the Muslim Brotherhood? A throwaway line on a US chat show has been doing the rounds online, repackaged into a far more dramatic claim: that Amal Clooney “worked for the Muslim Brotherhood.” The spark came from George Clooney’s interview with Drew Barrymore, where he joked that when he was
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Squire Patton Boggs announced an expansion of its Restructuring & Insolvency Practice with the addition of partner Katie Catanese. Ms. Catanese joins from Foley & Lardner, where she was Vice Chair of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice. She also currently serves as Vice President – International of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI). “I’ve known and
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Paul Weiss has added to its New York finance practice by hiring three finance partners from Sidley Austin. He has advised on financing transactions ranging from US$20 million to over US$15 billion, including syndicated and privately placed financings, recurring revenue-based facilities, financings marketed in the United States for the acquisition of European and Asian targets.
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Kellam Conover, 44, the Washington DC-based lawyer who tragedly died this week climbing Mount Cook in New Zealand’s South Island, was a talented appellate lawyer and held a desire to ultimately teach law. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Dartmouth College, Conover built a reputation as a formidable litigator in high-stakes commercial and product
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The r/biglaw trends worrying lawyers Norma Harris Law firms love glossy annual reports full of “strategic realignments,” “market headwinds,” and whatever other euphemism the managing partner’s ghost-writer cooked up. Reddit’s legal communities, by contrast, tell you what’s actually happening and we wanted to know. r/biglaw, r/LawSchool, and the lawyer-adjacent subs have become a running diagnostic
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Judges Gone Wild, Part IV The Judicial Conduct Panel has swatted away District Court Judge Ema Aitken’s latest bid to pin down a tidy legal threshold for what actually counts as “judicial misconduct” serious enough to remove a judge. The panel essentially replied: lovely question, but ask us again once we’ve heard the evidence. The
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(November 25, 2025) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has appointed Shareholder Jen Chierek Znosko (St. Louis) as the new co-chair of the firm’s Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI), joining Shareholder Margaret Parnell Hogan (Denver). Znosko succeeds Jennifer A. Youpa (Dallas) who will be retiring this year. Formed in 2008,
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New Zealand’s Royal Commission into COVID-19 Lessons Learned is racing toward its February 2026 deadline with all the grace of a three-legged horse. Chair Grant Illingworth KC insists everything is “perfectly natural” as senior staff exit stage left with increasing regularity.
The rest of us are entitled to wonder whether this inquiry will deliver the accountability New Zealanders deserve, or simply a very expensive exercise in looking busy.
The turnover at the top reads like a particularly ruthless season of The Apprentice.
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Leading global law firm, Baker McKenzie, has hired Sebastian Ma’ilei as a Transfer Pricing Partner in the Firm’s Tax team in London. Prior to joining the Firm, Sebastian (Seb) worked, most recently, as a Transfer Pricing Partner in the London office of Deloitte, where he has a proven track record of generating transfer pricing work
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