US law firms continue to announce layoffs with recruiters and others saying more layoffs lie ahead with overcapacity among noneqjuity partners. One of the issues is that lawyers working from home are less reliant upon staff members at law firms. Altman Weil principal Eric Seeger told Law.com that he has spoken with about three dozen […]
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Dr. Zena Prodromou, Senior Associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Brussels office, published recently “The public order exception in international trade, investment, human rights and commercial disputes“. Parties to international disputes increasingly invoke the need to protect the domestic public order in order to justify actions otherwise in breach of their obligations under international law. The term
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Baltimore, MD (August 11, 2020) — Kramon & Graham, a leading law firm providing litigation, real estate, and transactional services, is pleased to announce that Jean E. Lewis has been named to the 2020 Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers. Ms. Lewis is recognized among other distinguished lawyers whose practice focuses on financial restructuring and bankruptcy law.
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Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has entered into an agreement (“Remedial Order”) with New York City and the New York City Department of Correction (“DOC”) to address ongoing non-compliance with core provisions of a Court-ordered Consent Judgment entered in October
The movement of the Big Four accounting firms into the legal space continues strongly and none moreso than EY who are planning rapid expansion of their legal division. Bloomberg Big Law report that EY’s John Knox, Singapore-based and who became EY’s new global legal managed services leader in July, is working to grow the legal
Powered by LawFuel – Washington DC, August 5, 2020 – Davis Polk today announced that D. Jarrett Arp, one of the nation’s leading cartel defense practitioners, has joined the firm as a partner in the Antitrust and Competition Group in Washington DC. Mr. Arp’s practice focuses on antitrust and competition law counseling, investigations and litigation at
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Leading entertainment lawyer Tom Pollock, who counted Star Wars creator George Lucas among his clients, has died this week. Tom Pollock is also the former chairman of Universal Pictures and the American Film Institute. He was 77. Pollock started the entertainment law firm Pollock, Rigrod, and Bloom in 1970 and apart from George Lucas on his client
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Its a case of a nasty divorce that just got nastier disaffected litigant Allison Huynh alleged that Big Law firm Morrison & Foerster had been a “willing architect and facilitator” in a nefarious scheme to cheat her and her children out of former husband and Google code writer Scott Hassan’s share of a fortune. Hassan
The exodus of transactional lawyers from Irell & Manella continues with two corporate partners joining Reed Smith. Irell & Manella is abandoning most of its transactional practices in an effort to focus solely on high-value litigation work, in a move that’s lead to the departure of a number of partners, including two more this week.
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