The sports lawyer nobody sends a thank-you card Every era of sport gets the villain it deserves, and for a decade of gender-eligibility wars the casting has barely changed: a softly-spoken commercial litigator in a London office who keeps winning. His name is Jonathan Taylor KC, he is a partner at Bird & Bird, and
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Ropes & Gray has recruited co-head of Paul Weiss’s financial services practice after three years with the firm. Jarryd Anderson has earlier worked with the Federal Reserve, Wells Fargo and TD Bank and was a partner at O’Melveny & Myers, along with other roles. The Ropes & Gray media announcement on the appointment is below
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New Zealand family lawyers are starting to treat third-party funding less as a last resort and more as a core business tool, particularly as fee recovery pressures continue to bite. JustFund, the Australian-based family law funder and the country’s only dedicated family law finance provider, which launched from in New Zealand last year, has approved
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When does everyday language become trademark infringement? That’s the question brewing in a new intellectual property clash between a two-store London cafe and a £1.5 billion hospitality behemoth. The independent Coffee Studio recently applied to register a simple, three-word slogan: “Eat Drink Work.” They quickly found themselves in the legal crosshairs of Mitchells & Butlers—the
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More than $5 million in funding approved to date, 100+ firms now offering support Over $5 million in funding has flowed into Aotearoa New Zealand family law and estate matters over the past year as law firms increasingly turn to third-party funding to extend services to more Kiwis, while also ensuring they get paid faster.
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In its final set of financial results before the highly anticipated transatlantic union with US giant Perkins Coie, Ashurst has posted a formidable swan song. But behind the headline figures lies some major obstacles that may create major issues for the merged firm such as a complex web of legal AI integration, mounting pressure in the associate pay wars, and the ever-present threat of lateral poaching.
Introduction No business sets out expecting to face financial distress. But cash flow problems, rising costs, and economic pressure can catch up with even well-run companies, and when they do, the difference between recovery and collapse often comes down to how early a business gets proper legal advice. Restructuring and insolvency law exists for exactly
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Article source: Texas Truck Accident Lawyer Spend ten minutes on a Texas arterial road at lunchtime and you’ll count a dozen delivery vans before your coffee gets cold. Online ordering keeps climbing, and the U.S. Census Bureau now puts e-commerce at about 16 percent of all retail sales, close to one in six dollars spent.
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Slater and Gordon Lawyers seeking witnesses to alleged historic child sexual abuse at Worimi ShelterSlater and Gordon Lawyers Leading law firm Slater and Gordon Lawyers is calling on witnesses of alleged child sexual abuse at Worimi Shelter in the early 1980s to step forward. Our client it a proud 57-year-old a First Nations Anaiwan man who alleges he was abused in 1983 while a detainee at the state-run Worimi Shelter. The Shelter
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Willkie’s all-women core restructuring team was profiled by The American Lawyer for its trailblazing success guiding the chapter 11 case of Saks Global Enterprises LLC, the largest multi-brand luxury retailer in the world. The all-women core team led by Debra Sinclair, U.S. Co-Chair of Willkie’s Restructuring Department and Chair of the Company Restructuring & Reorganization practice, marks
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