Raise a glass (or a fountain pen) – the legal profession’s most antiquated greeting has finally been given the boot. The UK Law Society has formally binned “Dear Sirs”, a phrase that clings to legal correspondence like mothballs on a barrister’s robe. The new guidance urges lawyers to ditch the gendered opener that harks back […]
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Big Class Action Win For Small Firm Lawyer ASB has agreed to pay $135.6 million to settle the four-year old Banking Class Action over alleged disclosure breaches under the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act. The deal needs High Court approval and comes with the usual non-admission of liability. The quick take: ASB writes a
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Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor A High Court judge has ruled that PPE Medpro, the supplier linked to former lingerie queen Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman, breached its 2020 contract to deliver 25 million sterile surgical gowns to the Department of Health and Social Care. Mone, who grew up in Glasgow and
A federal judge just handed DLA Piper a reality check, ruling the firm must face trial over allegations it fired a pregnant senior associate for seeking maternity leave. Anisha Mehta, a seventh-year intellectual property associate claims she was terminated in June 2023 when she was six months pregnant, just days after requesting maternity leave. The
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Well, well, well . . nothing says “strategic legal planning” quite like hiring the very lawyer who helped broker your multibillion-dollar acquisition to then become your top legal talent. Makan Delrahim has officially traded his Latham & Watkins partnership for the corner office at Paramount Skydance Corporation, stepping into the CLO role on October 6th
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The Latest KC Cohort Displays A Range of Legal Expertise The latest round of KCs to join the silk ranks include two former Lawyers of the Year, Cassie Nicholson and Tiana Epati. The 12 new Kings’ Counsel were selected from 107 applicants Attorney General apart from Chief Parliamentary Counsel Cassie Nicholson who is not a
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The chair of Ropes & Gray’s IP litigation practice has moved to Sheppard Mullin with a 20-lawyer team from his former chair, taking four partneres and 16 counsel and associates. The lawyers include lawyers from Sheppard Mullin’s Manhattan, Silicon Valley, Washington DC and Seoul offices. Sheppard Mullin has worked to increase its IP law firm,
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BigLaw Partner Saves Claire’s, Pays with His Ear Claire’s—the teenage rite-of-passage retailer better known for cheap studs and squealing mall rats than for balance sheets—was on the brink of bankruptcy again. For the second time in seven years, the 64-year-old chain was staring at liquidation and a lost legacy of slightly lopsided piercings. Enter Kirkland
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Which Lawyers Got the Cream in the Massive NZ Deal The sale of Fonterra’s global consumer and associated businesses, the Mainland Group, to French dairy giant Lactalis for a reported $4.2 billion was never going to be just a farmer-to-farmer handshake. It turned into one of the most lucrative ticket-clipping exercises for New Zealand and
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Law firm websites are usually a parade of scales-of-justice clip art and grim headshots, but S.A.J. Legal Solicitors once broke the mould with something far more… caprine. As RollOnFriday gleefully reported, the firm’s ethos was embodied by the Markhor—a mountain goat famed for thriving in the Himalayas’ toughest conditions. The site waxed lyrical about resilience,
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