Why Russell McVeagh Partner Brian Clayton Ditched the Timesheet (Temporarily) and What It Did to His Lawyer Brain Most construction partners spend their careers praying the pipeline never dries up. Brian Clayton, on the other hand, actually walked away from it, swapping the office for a paddock, co-founded a fully integrated hops export business with […]
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Lathams Law Raid Latham & Watkins has raided Freshfields’ in Germany to secure four of Europe’s most pedigreed private equity partners – Markus Paul, (pictued) who has two decades’ of deal-making experience behind him, Wessel Heukamp, Verena Nosch and Carsten Haak. The raid comes from a firm already sitting atop Bloomberg’s global M&A rankings, now
The US Attorney Count Grow Norma Harris The United States now has more practising lawyers than at any point in history. According to the American Bar Association’s latest national survey, there were 1,322,649 active lawyers as of January 1, 2024. The head-count keeps rising. The profession keeps sprawling. And the competition keeps getting nastier. New
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Leading global law firm, Baker McKenzie, has hired Adele Harrison as a Partner in its Data & Cyber team in London. Adele is a qualified barrister and joins the Firm from Orrick, where she specialises in Data and Cyber law, with a focus on advocacy and investigations. She advises on a wide range of cybersecurity
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In a stinging rebuke to ethical back-room deals, an Australian Federal Court has found that Jason Karas, former partner at Lipman Karas (now LK Law), secretly brokered a deal to hand over the firm’s Hong Kong practice to London legal powerhouse Mishcon de Reya.
The court ruled that Karas negotiated the deal without informing his co-founder Skip Lipman or disclosing the extent of the transfer.
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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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