The bigger the law firm, the younger the age – so reports a research report from Edward Drummond, a law firm consultancy. The report showed that 72 per cent of partners at the UK’s top 10 law firms are 50 years or younger, while this the figure for the UK overall is 60 per cent.
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Wendel Rosen Black & Dean – Back in 2011 it looked like class actions would join the mastodon, the dodo bird and other extinct species. In AT&T v. Mobility v. Concepcion, Justice Scalia and the conservative majority held that the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) preempted state laws protecting consumers. Like a comet from deep space, it
Following a gender discrimination lawsuit against Sedgwicks, a female litigator has now filed suit against Chadbourne & Parke, the New York-based 300-attorney firm. Kerrie Campbell’s lawsuit, reported by the WSJ Law Blog, is filed on behalf of Chadbourne’s 26 partners since 2013, claiming they are “routinely” underpaid and that the firm “actively retaliates against female attorneys
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Clifford Chance – Following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, multinationals face a range of challenges. At two recent Clifford Chance seminars in London, our experts shared their views on what Brexit means for multinationals outside the financial services sector, focusing on the business and legal impact. There is still considerable uncertainty as
LOS ANGELES – The former operator of the Normandie Club in Gardena has been ordered to pay a $1 million criminal fine and to forfeit nearly $1.4 million after pleading guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to report large cash transactions to federal authorities. During a federal court hearing yesterday, United
Australian law firm Slater and Gordon was the first law firm to be listed on the stock exchange, but it is also the first to post a very public $1 billion loss. The personal injury and class action law firm, which extended to the UK under an aggressive growth plan, has suffered significant reversals in
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Matt Damon has a lesson for anyone – lawyers or not – on dress sense and why you need to dress 25 per cent better than everyone else at the office. Forbes contributor Carmine Gallo has written a piece on the importance of dress, quoting CEO recruiter James Citrin who tells college graduates in particular
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Yes, it’s that time again – another Kim Dotcom hearing and plenty of social media carry-on to meet the American attempts to carry the big man off. The latest brouhaha involves a late bid by the Megaupload founder, to have his extradition case live streamed online, which may yet occur. The current case, set down
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“Making a Murderer” just got more intense with a new plot line. Attorney Kathleen Zellner, who represents the documentary’s subject, Steven Avery, says tests have already been conducted that “conclusively establish his innocence” in yet another twist in the “Making a Murder” mystery. But not just yet . . this is tense drama, after all
Continuum Admits That It Did Not Fully Reimburse Medicaid For Erroneously Billed Claims For Over Two Years Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Scott J. Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector
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