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KPMG Crisis – KPMG General Counsel & HR Chief Exit Firm Days Before Scandal Hearing

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Shock exits at scandal-hit KPMG as top legal and people leaders step down ahead of key parliamentary grilling. KPMG’s general counsel Louise Capon and national managing partner of people and inclusion Dorothy Hisgrove are leaving the firm, just days before they are due to appear at a high-stakes parliamentary hearing into allegations of misconduct and

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5 Things Your HR Department Won’t Tell You (But an Employment Law Attorney Will)

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Article source: Unite Law Your HR department is not your friend, even when they smile and bring donuts to the break room on a random Friday. HR exists to protect the company first, and that priority shapes nearly every decision they make about your career. This does not mean every HR person acts in bad

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Wachtell’s Waterloo And The Chaos Marty Lipton Spent 50 Years Preventing

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Wachtell’s Summer of Love – And The Day Marty’s Firm Got Old What would brilliant lawyer Marty Lipton make of it? Restructuring and finance partners walking out in unison, litigation partners follow and a partner is filmed cosying up in Bryant Park when he should probably be billing. The once‑unthinkable idea of Wachtell Lipton coming

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Quinn Emanuel’s “AI evangelist” quits to build the anti-pyramid law firm

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After 17 years climbing Quinn Emanuel’s litigation ranks and building the first dedicated AI practice at a major US firm along the way New York trial lawyer Christopher Kercher has walked out to test a heretical proposition: that the Big Law pyramid is now the wrong shape for the job. Kercher, founder of Quinn Emanuel’s

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From Death Row to Comedy Festival How This Lawyer Found Punchlines in the Darkest Place

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Some lawyers bill by the hour. Others spend years trying to stop the state from killing their clients. American capital defence lawyer‑turned‑comedian Josh Pickar has somehow managed to do both law and stand‑up, arguing that the two professions have more in common than most civilians would comfortably admit. Both depend on storytelling, timing and finding

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Why NZTA Turned to a Global Law Firm for New Zealand’s Biggest Road Deal

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Bell Gully may have led the New Zealand legal team, but one of the more interesting features of the Warkworth to Te Hana Public Private Partnership (PPP) is the involvement of global infrastructure specialist Ashurst Perkins Coie. For a 26‑kilometre stretch of Northland highway, that might sound like over‑lawyering. The concrete may be poured in

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Former Minters Lawyer Schenone Makes Another Bold Move

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Former MinterEllisonRuddWatts star Silvana Schenone is making career waves again, exiting local investment bank Jarden, who have had their ups and downs in recent years, to join fast‑rising Australian player Barrenjoey and taking her trans‑Tasman dealmaking clout with her. However the move has attracted the ire and investigation of Jardens as the Australian Financial Review

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The $20 Billion World Cup Sell-Off Collapsed in Seven Days. The Lawyers Are Fine.

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A capital raise that valued the World Cup’s commercial engine at $20 billion. A magic circle firm quietly hoovering up FIFA’s top litigators a fortnight earlier. One of those lasted a week. Guess which. The battle for football’s future was supposed to be fought in Manhattan conference rooms, but it was over almost before it

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UK Law News – Private Equity’s Legal Buying Spree Continues With Second Acquisition

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Private equity-backed Adeptio Law Group has completed its second law firm acquisition of the year, continuing its plan to build one of the Midlands’ largest regional legal groups in UK law. Its founding firm, FBC Manby Bowdler, has acquired Worcester practice The Specialist Law Group, operator of the The Employment Solicitor and The Company Solicitor

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US Supreme Court Veteran Joins HSF Kramer in Washington

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WASHINGTON — July 24, 2026 — Leading global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (HSF Kramer) has expanded its Supreme Court and Appellate practice with the addition of Daniel L. Geyser in Washington, DC. Dan will serve as the firm’s Co-Head of Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation, US, alongside Co-Heads Roy T. Englert, Jr. and Daniel

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