New York partner succeeds Vice Chair Ora Fisher, who is retiring after nearly three decades at the firm. Powered by LawFuel – Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that New York partner and current Executive Committee member Lisa Watts has been elected Vice Chair of the firm, effective immediately. She joins Chicago partner Brad
As Tech Startups Increasingly Move to Texas, Baker Botts Forms Strategic Alliance with The Ion and Becomes Founding Supporter of Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator HOUSTON, March 16, 2021 – Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that it has extended its alliance with The Ion, a 266,000-square-foot, mixed-use structure designed to bring Houston’s
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Another senior lawyer has moved from a Magic Circle firm, this time Slaughter and May, to a US competitor. Cleary Gottlieb have hired experienced corporate lawyer Jackie Holland, announcing the hire in the release below – Jackie Holland will join the firm as a partner in the London office, focusing on competition practice, including antitrust
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Magic circle firm Linklaters has moved towards its focus on increased diversity by adopting a new Afro hair code or, to be more specific, a ‘black hair code’ that protects staff with Afro hairstyles, along with braids, cornrows and all the other manifestations of afro hair. The firm said that the policy change had been
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Minter Ellison CEO Anette Kimmitt has left the firm she headed following her email to staff about partner Peter Bartlett acting for Australian Attorney General Christian Porter who faced rape allegations. MinterEllison’s chairman, David O’Brien, told staff via an email sent on Wednesday that Kimmitt had left, and would be replaced in an acting capacity
Powered by LawFuel – Global law firm White & Case LLP will retain 82 percent of its London trainees who are due to qualify in March 2021, after 14 of 17 trainees were offered and accepted positions at the Firm. ==> Post Your Law Job to LawFuel’s Network “The quality of our training programme, combined
Success Academy Charter School Network Ordered to Pay Over $2.4 Million in a Disability Discrimination Case Brought by Families of Five Former Students Powered by LawFuel – Charter school network Success Academy, which touts its commitment to children “from all backgrounds,” has been ordered to pay over $2.4 million on a Judgment in a case
San Francisco (March 10, 2021) – Powered by LawFuel – Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, today announced the results of its “Leading with Influence” global study, which offers insights into the most significant areas of development and drivers of change for today’s general counsel (GC), as GCs navigate increasingly complex roles at a
LOS ANGELES – Powered by LawFuel – Expanding a case in which four people were indicted last year, federal authorities have charged four new defendants with participating in a scheme that allegedly submitted more than 150 fraudulent loan applications seeking nearly $22 million in COVID-19 relief funds authorized under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security
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It’s a question we get asked a lot – how much do lawyers earn? – and it deserves some careful analysis John Bowie* Asking how much lawyers earn is a question that is very much akin to the ‘how long is a piece of string?’ Many of us are interested in the vast sums we
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