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Law Firm Joins Black Lives Matter Lawsuit Against Trump Over Floyd Protests

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Black Lives Matter has obtained the assistance of law firm Arnold Porter Kaye Scholer in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump following the violent dispersal of protesters in Washington DC. The firm joined various civil rights organizations to bring the lawsuit on behalf Black Lives Matter D.C. and five protesters who claim they were injured […]

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Littler Launches Holistic Workforce Restructuring Solution

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(May 28, 2020) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, announces the launch of the Littler Restructuring Assessment Solution, a resource for employers forced to make critical decisions about reductions in force (RIFs), furloughs, layoffs and other workforce restructuring measures.  The holistic solution provides businesses with a proactive, strategic and defensible approach to

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Perkins Coie Continues Texas Growth With Addition of Jill Louis in Dallas

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DALLAS (May 29, 2020) – Powered by LawFuel – Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Jill Louis has joined the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice as a partner in the Dallas office. Jill’s addition to the Dallas office follows the opening of the firm’s Austin office in February and the recent addition of John Treviño

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Archie Williams – The Innocence Project YouTube Star & The Lawyers Who Saw Him Free

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Reality TV show ‘Americ’a Got Talent’ is as used to pulling heartstrings as strumming guitars, but the recent appearance of Archie Williams, a man who served 37 years’ jail for a crime he didn’t commit, was a standout performance for both Williams and the Innocence Project lawyers who secured his release. In 1982, at the

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Does the COVID Crisis Show The Human Side of Law Firms And Help Women Lawyers To Remain in Big Law . . Or Not?

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A recent article on the Australian Financial Review reported on King & Wood Mallesons chief executive partner Berkeley Cox who said the COVID-19 crisis had helped ‘humanise’ the workplace by removing the “shield of a suit” when video-calling from home with kids and mayhem occurring. A cynic may also see the observation by Big Law

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Hacked Law Firm Sees Lady Gaga, Madonna Data Stolen Via Cyberattack

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A major entertainment law firm has lost data to a raft of major, A-List entertainment figures including Lady Gaga, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Mariah Carey and others after a major cyberattack. The law firm, Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks said that after its internal data systems were hacked it had informed its clients of the breach, according to

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Kirkland’s ‘Emotionally Deficient’ Gravy Train Email Scores a Sour Bullseye With Expendable Lawyers

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An article in Law.com from Olivia Chen caught our eye for no reason other than its insensitivity to both the lawyers working with Big Law partners, but also to the curren coronavirus crisis situation occurring in workplaces. The need to pump out billables may continue even in times of crisis but some sensitivity to the

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Women in Law Initiative – Jay Kugler DeYoung Named Chair of Fish & Richardson’s EMPOWER Women’s Initiative

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Boston, MA, May 7, 2020 – Fish & Richardson announced today that Jay Kugler DeYoung, a principal in the firm’s Boston office, has been named chair of the firm’s EMPOWER Women’s Initiative. In 2009, Fish created EMPOWER – which stands for Enrichment, Mentorship, Partnering, Opportunities, Wisdom, Excellence, and Responsibility – to promote the recruitment, retention and advancement of

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