20 2018 ASIL Annual Meeting – “International Law in Practice” April 4 – April 7, 2018 Washington, DC The 112th ASIL Annual Meeting will consider how and by whom international law is made, shaped, and carried out; and how international legal practice has changed and is continuing to change in response to geopolitical shifts and contemporary challenges.
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Don Testo* Donald Trump under oath – as he faces with the Mueller investigation – is something the President treats with traditional bluster and bravado. Given that he has uttered an alleged 2000 lies since taking ‘the oath of office’ the issue now is what he might do to himself when speaking with the special
Heather McCullough* What a law firm looks like today is dramatically different than what it looked like 50 years ago. Law firms benefitted from client expansion and demand for legal services, and grew exponentially. The sheer size of law firms today necessitates doing things differently than they have traditionally been done. Partners don’t work down
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JONATHAN POWELL was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison for computer fraud in connection with his scheme to obtain unauthorized access to more than 1,000 email accounts maintained by a New York City-area university in order to download
Cravath partner Mark I. Greene was named to Lawdragon’s 2017 list of “Legends,” which recognized those lawyers who have been featured among Lawdragon’s list of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” for 10 consecutive years. Lawdragon described those on the short list as “the very best of the profession,” and noted Mark as “one of
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Bell Gully has retained its market-leading position as a legal adviser for mergers and acquisitions, according to two major international league tables released in January. Annual reviews from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters ranked Bell Gully within the top 20 firms in Australasia in three out of four measures of merger and acquisition activity in 2017.
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Skadden Arps – Tax reform, shifting international dynamics, Trump administration goals and a potentially strong market for transactions all seem likely to impact business activity in 2018. Below are 10 areas to explore in our 10th annual Insights publication. 1. Tax Reform Takes Center Stage The most comprehensive tax reform in the United States since 1986 made
It was always coming – the day when women outnumbered men in the New Zealand legal profession. And now it has arrived, with the NZ Law Society announcing that of the 13,103 lawyers practising, 6553 are women. Women admitted to the bar have exceeded men since the early 1990s, but the gap has now closed.
Fired Dentons Associate Michael Potere’s interesting career took another turn this week with his sentencing on charges of attempting to extort his former employer under threat of releasing highly sensitive information he had downloaded from the email account of the firm’s LA managing director’s account. Not the best of plans, you may think and both
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MARCUS STROUD, 20, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by United States District Judge Cathy Seibel for his receipt of files containing sexually explicit images of a minor. The sentencing today followed STROUD’s guilty plea on June
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