TikTok, the popular video-sharing app, has initiated legal proceedings against the United States government through the filing of a 66-page complaint. The action is in response to a recently enacted law that mandates the divestment of TikTok’s ownership from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to a non-Chinese entity within a 12-month period, failing which the […]
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Sometimes technology can be a bummer, particularly for those caught saying what they think instead of what they should be saying publicly. Such was the case with Texas Judge Nancy Mulder whose comments to an ’empty courtroom’ were live streamed. The Judge stepped aside from two cases involving a murder defendant last week after inadvertently
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Big Law Salary Scale List The news that Milbank had kicked off the $225k salary payments has seen a raft of other biglaw firms join the fray – much to the joy of associates. Milbank kicked off the biglaw salary increases in November 2023 and the example was followed by Cravath a short time later,
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How Do The AmLaw 100 Rankings Stack Up in 2024? Ben Thomson, Big Law contributing editor Now that the dust is settling on the latest AmLaw 100 rankings for 2024, we can look at the question of big law partner profits and the salaries that are coming home for these people. And the AmLaw rankings
LawFuel contributor Ben Boman writes on law firms profitability and statistics Profits per equity partner (PEP) growth for big law firms is increasing for US law firms and exceeding the revenue growth for law firms. The trend demonstrates significant changes within the US law profession as some firms – for instance, such LawFuel prestige law
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Leading IP law firmPaul Hastings have added six senior IP litigation attorneys recruited from the US office of leading prestige law firm list member, UK-based Allen & Overy. Paul Hastings has been moving aggressively to cement its role as a leading IP law firm for Big Tech clients and others facing increasingly common and complex
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Freshfields has continued its US expansion by hiring two private equity lawyers in New York. The firm now has more than 400 lawyers in the US after expanding with some key hires in New York, Washington DC and Silicon Valley in recent years. The employment of the two new hires, outlined in the media release
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Anyone still upset that the Musk-Zuck cage match got called off will get a chance to witness a tech billionaire standoff with much higher stakes: a Musk-Altman legal battle. Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its co-founders, CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, yesterday, alleging that they breached the organization’s founding agreement by letting it become too
Allen & Overy’s current managing partner Khalid Garousha has been selected to lead the new firm following an announcement this week (see below). Shearman’s current global managing partner, Doreen Lilienfeld, is to operate as the co-managing partner of the new firm’s US business. The media statement: Allen & Overy (A&O) and Shearman & Sterling (Shearman)
Iran In Quinn Emanuel’s Sights John Bowie, LawFuel publisher Powerful litigation law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP has taken a bold step by filing a lawsuit against Iran on behalf of American victims and their families affected by a horrific attack on October 7 in Israel. The legal action seeks justice for the
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