Its been a season of increased focus on diversity and gender inclusiveness with the latest round of law firm promotions and elevations. From Fish & Richardson’s diversity record-breaking elevations to Perkins Coies’ diversity newsmaking elevations, we now have Norton Rose Fulbright elevating Shauna Clark as the firm’s US and global Chair. Her appointment was, said […]
A former classmate is spilling all the tea from his law school days. As you probably could guess, based on his radically right-wing record and degree from Yale Law School, Senator Josh Hawley was a member of the Federalist Society in law school. And as you also probably guessed based on those two facts, he
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ATLANTA, Jan. 4, 2021– LawFuel – Powering Lawyers – King & Spalding has unanimously re-elected Robert D. Hays, Jr. as its chairman in a vote that will usher in his sixth term at the helm of the international firm. His new three-year term began on January 1, 2021. “Robert Hays continues to bring unparalleled strategic
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Trump’s recent pardons have followed form – a cot-throwing, screw you attitude towards his election loss, still unaccepted, and his congenital inability to accept reversal. The New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg reviewed his most disgusting pardons, including the Blackwater mercenaries who participated in the 2007 massacre in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. Among the victims was a
17 Lawyers Join From Richards Kibbe & Orbe The strategic addition of Chambers-ranked talent in New York and Washington, D.C. is the largest such acquisition in recent years NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, D.C., (December 16, 2020) – Perkins Coie announced today the addition of 17 white collar and financial services litigation attorneys from the prominent firm
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An alleged ‘boys’ club’ culture at top firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has been denied by the firm following the firing of a former associate who raised issues around the culture and alleged discrimination and racial minorities, among other matters. The top partners at the firm denied the claims made by the former female
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Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington, D.C., Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation
The former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S Berman, who was fired by President Trump, has been hired by Fried Frank to lead the firm’s white collar and litigation practice. The firm’s press release making the announcement is below – Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that
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A Philadelphia lawyer running her own firm and representing Donald Trump’s campaign has complained of harassment from Kirkland & Ellis, dropping a lawsuit challenging the election results. Linda Kerns did not give harassment as a reason for dropping out of the lawsuit, but a court filing indicated that a short voice mail from a lawyer
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Bob Jones* – In the days immediately following the Presidential election, like many folk I was glued to television following the counting updates. This exercise revealed the world’s most boring man, conceivably in all of history, namely CNN’s Chief National Correspondent, John King. King, a circa 60 year old with a face totally devoid of
