Article source: Jamie Casino Injury Attorneys Jamie Casino built a reputation for relentless advocacy by combining a strong work ethic, a commitment to helping injury victims, and a willingness to take on powerful opponents when pursuing justice for his clients. Over the years, his approach to legal representation has helped establish him as a well-known […]
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The sports lawyer nobody sends a thank-you card Every era of sport gets the villain it deserves, and for a decade of gender-eligibility wars the casting has barely changed: a softly-spoken commercial litigator in a London office who keeps winning. His name is Jonathan Taylor KC, he is a partner at Bird & Bird, and
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Ropes & Gray has recruited co-head of Paul Weiss’s financial services practice after three years with the firm. Jarryd Anderson has earlier worked with the Federal Reserve, Wells Fargo and TD Bank and was a partner at O’Melveny & Myers, along with other roles. The Ropes & Gray media announcement on the appointment is below
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Willkie’s all-women core restructuring team was profiled by The American Lawyer for its trailblazing success guiding the chapter 11 case of Saks Global Enterprises LLC, the largest multi-brand luxury retailer in the world. The all-women core team led by Debra Sinclair, U.S. Co-Chair of Willkie’s Restructuring Department and Chair of the Company Restructuring & Reorganization practice, marks
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Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor The battle for top lawyers shows no sign of easing as A&O Shearman’s exodus continues with the firm suffering another senior casualty with global fund finance co-head Fiona Cumming leaving to join Weil Gotshal & Manges in London. The move gives Weil another heavyweight in one of the fastest-growing areas
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When the Crown finds itself steering through politically radioactive terrain, the playbook remains remarkably consistent: call in the legal adults in the room to sort the wheat from the political and bureaucratic chaff. When doing so, the government is fishing in a relatively shallow pool, but the go to operators remain consistently capable of rising
Since establishing its Houston office in 2023 Clifford Chance has continued to expand with over 24 lawyers now working in the UK-based firm’s office. Despite losing Devika Kornbacher, the co-chair of Clifford Chance’s tech division and head of the Houston office, who departed for an Austin boutique earlier this year, the firm has recruited Carter
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Samantha Wellington, eBay’s senior vice president and chief legal officer, thinks the profession is panicking about the wrong people. AI will not gut the graduate ranks, she argues, because the AI-native juniors are the ones teaching firms how to rebuild their workflows. The lawyers who should be nervous are the mid-career middle managers, and anyone
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Changing the traditional law firm model is generating a lot of talk these days, but what can change for law firms when they seriously alter the model can turn a moribund operation into something like a high-growth startup. All of which is what happened with Olliers Solicitors in the UK, which went from £2m to a massive £6.5m in annual fee income.
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The Plan To De‑Politicise NZ’s Regulators Wellington lawyer Stephen Franks has moved from criticising professional regulators to offering them the legislative equivalent of child‑proof scissors. Working with the Free Speech Union, Franks has drafted a “Regulated Professions Neutrality Bill”, an instrument aimed at stopping law societies, medical colleges and others from disciplining members for lawful,
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