Wachtell’s Summer of Love – And The Day Marty’s Firm Got Old What would brilliant lawyer Marty Lipton make of it? Restructuring and finance partners walking out in unison, litigation partners follow and a partner is filmed cosying up in Bryant Park when he should probably be billing. The once‑unthinkable idea of Wachtell Lipton coming […]
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The merger of US-based Winston & Strawn with Taylor Wessing’s UK-led business is set to test demand for intellectual property counsel capable of straddling the geographic divide. But unlike most transatlantic partnerships, IP was not just another practice area in need of integration — it was a “key driver” of the decision to join forces, two Winston
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After 17 years climbing Quinn Emanuel’s litigation ranks and building the first dedicated AI practice at a major US firm along the way New York trial lawyer Christopher Kercher has walked out to test a heretical proposition: that the Big Law pyramid is now the wrong shape for the job. Kercher, founder of Quinn Emanuel’s
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Article source: Shook & Stone Attorneys, NV Image generated by Gemini A bartender slips behind a crowded service bar at 1:45 a.m. A security guard tears a shoulder, breaking up a fight near the DJ booth. A cleaner slices a hand on broken glass during the post-close sweep. In Las Vegas nightlife, injuries happen fast,
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What Brown Rudnick’s Major Hire Signals For Big Law’s Lateral Wars Brown Rudnick has just fired another shot in Big Law’s lateral wars, landing the largest group hire in the firm’s history and using it to plant a fresh flag in Silicon Valley. The Boston‑headquartered firm has recruited a 34‑lawyer intellectual property litigation and patent
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Looking for a better law job? Look no further . . New Zealand’s legal profession is running hot, and not in a good way.A new AUT report has found that roughly one in four New Zealand lawyers are actively considering leaving the profession, underscoring a structural talent risk that law firm leaders can no longer
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Latest NZ law jobs – Napier Roles – Check LawFuel Jobs The Kim Dotcom extradition saga has devolved into a staggering display of judicial inefficiency, exposing a glaring incompetence at the heart of New Zealand’s justice system, according to Deborah Chambers KC’s latest NZ Herald column. After more than a decade of endless legal gymnastics,
Some lawyers bill by the hour. Others spend years trying to stop the state from killing their clients. American capital defence lawyer‑turned‑comedian Josh Pickar has somehow managed to do both law and stand‑up, arguing that the two professions have more in common than most civilians would comfortably admit. Both depend on storytelling, timing and finding
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Britomart Chambers continues its expansion, but this time with its new Queenstown Chambers, setting up shop in the impeccably manicured, aggressively tranquil confines of Millbrook Resort. Negotiating a grueling settlement in a windowless boardroom, or even one with a view of Rangitoto, has nothing when compared to being a few steps away from a world-class
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Fenwick was again named Americas Technology Law Firm of the Year at Global M&A Network’s M&A Atlas Awards program for the Americas region. Since 2015, the group has recognized Fenwick’s preeminence in tech industry M&A. Informatica’s $8 billion acquisition by SalesForce, which Fenwick advised, earned M&A Deal of the Year (Large). Fenwick also represented SoundHound AI
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