The anointment of Kamala Harris as Vice Presidential nominee for presidential candidate Joe Biden sees her husband, a partner at DLA Piper, as the potential, first ever male ‘Second Lady’ at the White House. Douglas Emhoff, 55 has a quarter century legal experience, working as partner at the Century City office of DLA Piper, where […]
Keystone Law announces today that it has finalised the arrangements for its first office in the Middle East. The establishment of Keystone Law Middle East LLP (“KLME”) has been now been approved by the Abu Dhabi Global Market (“ADGM”), the award-winning international finance centre located in the heart of the UAE’s capital city, Abu Dhabi,
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Ben Myers has joined the firm’s London office. Myers, formerly a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, will continue his global finance practice. “We are very pleased to welcome Ben to Gibson Dunn,” said Ken Doran, Chairman and Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn. “He is
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Six attorneys from global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP have been named to the inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading Global and U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers. Alison Elko Franklin was named to the U.S. guide, while Peggy Hunt, Annette Jarvis, J. Gregory Milmoe, Nancy A. Peterman, and Keith J. Shapiro were named to the Global guide. According to the publication, the recognized lawyers “bring remarkable skills
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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, and John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced today that JESUS WILFREDO ENCARNACION, a/k/a “Jihadistsoldgier,” “Jihadinhear,” “Jihadinheart,” “Lionofthegood,” was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to Lashkar e-Tayyiba (“LeT”), a Pakistan-based
The pandemic has seen a major change in the law jobs scene as – for the first time in some years – the market has moved from being ‘candidate driven’ to being one where the employers are finding the ability to pick-and-choose in a tougher market. The Niche Recruitment law jobs survey shows that returning
The Reserve Bank today announced that corporate lawyer Juliet Tainui-Hernandez, who has most recently been a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in London, has accepted the position of Assistant Governor and General Manager of Transformation and People. She was previously a transformation director at Norton Rose and had previously worked for Addleshaw Goddard, Dentons, Freshfields
The COVID pandemic continues to eat into newly qualified (NQ) solicitors’ pay rates with Linkaters being the latest major law firm to announce further cuts to pay – this time a 10 per cent reduction. In June Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance both cut NQ rates by 10 per cent as a result of
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Ashley Halsey* In recent years, law firms have turned to social media like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to promote their businesses and get more clients. However, there’s another social media platform that most lawyers don’t even think to use – a platform used by so many users (billions, actually), that it’s a gold mine that
