Achieving gender equality is one of the law profession’s major issues and so when a major firm – particularly one as gold-plated as Cravath Swaine & Moore – announce that their latest partner intake not only comprises mainly women, but only women, then it’s three cheers for them. It isn’t the first time Cravath has […]
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Morrison & Foerster – Today, California’s Second Appellate District Court stayed the trial that was set to begin on Monday, October 15, 2018, in Los Angeles Superior Court, regarding whether cancer warnings are required for sales of coffee in California. The trial in Council for Education and Research on Toxics v. Starbucks Corporation et al. (Los Angeles
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Benchmark Litigation Recognizes Kelley Drye Litigators Lee Brenner, David Fink, Jeffrey Jacobson, Michael Lynch, William Petit OCTOBER 2, 2018Kelley Drye is proud to announce attorneys recognized in Benchmark Litigation 2019: Partners Lee S. Brenner and David E. Fink were named California Local Litigation Stars. Partners Jeffrey S. Jacobson and Michael C. Lynch were named New York Local Litigation Stars. Partner William C. Petit was named to the “40 & Under Hot List.”
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Washington Correspondent If ever the Trump administration and its lawyers could become more weird it might have been in the last couple of weeks. Apart from the Cohen plea, there has also been the exiting of White House Counsel Don McGahn and his potential replacement by King & Spalding litigator Bobby Burchfield, who has been
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Mark Hamilton The growth in the legal head count at the Big Four accounting firms has increasingly got lawyers talking. And clients. A recent comment from WickerPark Group in a blog item noted that the main observations about what is happening comes from the M&A and tax professionals who have wide exposure to both the
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Formerly with the NCAA, English brings extensive experience delivering and facilitating programming to raise awareness and encourage cross-cultural interaction. New York – July 16, 2018 – A. Faith English, former Associate Director of Enforcement for the NCAA, has joined Lowenstein Sandler as Manager of Diversity & Inclusion. English spent the past six years at the
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The fall from grace of one of Big Law’s biggest lawyers – Bill Voge – the chairman of global legal giant Latham & Watkins LLP, is a sexting scandal that demonstrates the ease with which one can fall from great heights for reasons of ground-level dumbness. The WSJ recently catalogued the fall, from the time
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Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s highest grossing law firm, continues to poach lawyers with a high profile lateral move from Cravath attorney Sandra Goldstein to K&E. Reuters reported the move and comment that Kirkland & Ellis has been aggressively expanding its client list beyond private equity firms to major US companies, seeking to retain lawyers
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The growing issue of sexual harassment in the legal workplace has lead to a young lawyers’ editorial commentary in the US, as the #MeToo awareness now sweeps the legal world. The unique power structures within law firms have helped foster abuses of that power, including in sexual harassment. American Lawyer’s new Young Lawyers Editorial Board
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