US Attorney – Perfectus Aluminum Inc. and Related Companies Agree to Pay $549.5 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Evaded Customs Duties

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LOS ANGELES – California-based companies Perfectus Aluminum Inc., Perfectus Aluminum Acquisitions LLC and four affiliated warehousing companies have agreed to pay a total of $549.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly and improperly evading, or conspiring to evade, antidumping and countervailing duties owed to the United States on aluminum extrusions imported from […]

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Silks, Supremacy, and Sleepless Nights – Inside Chris Bishop’s Playbook as Attorney-General

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If you want to understand the constitutional worldview of New Zealand’s brand new Attorney-General, look no further than his Beehive office wall. Taking pride of place is a framed copy of Fitzgerald v Muldoon, the landmark 1976 ruling that removed all doubt about Parliament’s role as the country’s paramount law-making body. “The judgment’s laid out

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NZ Law – MinterEllisonRuddWatts appoints two new partners to its Band 1 Construction and Infrastructure practice

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MinterEllisonRuddWatts is celebrating the promotions of Natasha Hood and Vimal Nair to Partner in its market leading Construction and Infrastructure practice. The promotions highlight the depth of talent within the firm and its ongoing investment in developing high performing teams for the benefit of clients. Chief Executive Aaron Hockly said: “Natasha and Vimal’s promotions recognise their individual

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Claude for Legal: The AI Moment Small Firms Can’t Ignore

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Anthropic’s Claude for Legal Puts BigLaw‑Grade AI on a Small Firm Budget Norma Harris Anthropic has finally taken the wraps off Claude for Legal – a suite of 12 practice‑area plugins, 20+ MCP connectors into mainstream legal systems, and deep Microsoft 365 integration – and it lands squarely in the workflows where lawyers actually live.

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FNZ’s US$4.6b Class Action – Inside the Employee Shareholder Revolt

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A colossal US$4.6 billion (about NZ$7.7 billion) class action against global wealth‑tech group FNZ has opened in the New Zealand High Court, immediately triggering a fierce procedural fight over whether the dispute belongs in Wellington’s courtroom or behind closed doors in offshore arbitration rooms in London. Billed as one of the largest corporate shareholder actions

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Akin Grump Sees Partners Return To The Fold in PE Recruitment

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has added a team of private equity partners in London and New York from Sidley Austin, including members returning to the firm, being Gerald Brant, Jeffrey Kochian and Brittany Harrison from Sidley Austin (pictured). The other is Jonathon Hamill who is recruited for the London office. The firm’s media

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FisherBroyles Welcomes IP Partner Xiaoban Xin to Washington, D.C., Office

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Experienced Life Sciences Patent Attorney Strengthens Firm’s IP Capabilities ATLANTA—(May 12, 2026)—FisherBroyles, LLP, the world’s first and one of the largest distributed law firms, is pleased to announce that Xiaoban Xin, Ph.D., has joined the firm’s intellectual property practice in Washington, D.C. Xin brings extensive experience in patent prosecution, strategic IP counseling, portfolio development and due

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Quinn Emanuel’s John Quinn Steps Down — The Man Who Built a $2.8 Billion Litigation Empire

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John B. Quinn, the Harvard-trained litigator who turned a scrappy four-lawyer Los Angeles firm into the world’s most feared litigation powerhouse, which also achieved ‘fearsome profits’, has stepped down from the helm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan after four decades at the top.

The announcement was made to partners on Sunday and described by some in the legal press as arriving “abruptly”, bringing to a close one of the most remarkable leadership tenures in Big Law history.

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