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A former federal prosecutor who joined Paul Weiss in the month leading up to President Trump’s second term left for Jenner & Block.
The lawyers who negotiated a $69 million settlement with
“Erin Brockovich” lawyer Tom Girardi is appealing his conviction for stealing millions of dollars from his clients.
President Donald Trump’s proposed elimination of the Legal Services Corporation, a longtime conservative goal, threatens representation of 6.4 million low-income people, supporters of the legal aid services funder said.
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A short-lived victory for supporters of a policy extending in-state tuition rates to noncitizens unraveled when Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and President Donald Trump’s DOJ teamed up in federal court and killed the law.
The US Supreme Court’s decision to take up a case on whether
Tariff policy turmoil has made disclosure of possible business impacts a moving target for top publicly traded companies.
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Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
On May 28, 2012, Dewey & LeBoeuf, the product of a merger between two storied New York law firms, filed for bankruptcy. For the first time, Dewey's former chair Steven Davis opens up about the years, months, and weeks leading to his firm's collapse, the decisions he made and, looking back, whether he would have done anything differently.
When engineers prepare to drill for oil, they know the spot deep underground where the well must end and can choose their starting point, but there are many possible routes in between.
Rush Atkinson is joining Dunn Isaacson Rhee, the latest Big Law spin-off boutique. He is the sixth partner to leave Paul Weiss for the boutique.
A San Francisco federal judge at a hearing Friday appeared unlikely to dismiss a criminal indictment against an alleged operator of the notorious cryptocurrency money laundering entity BTC-e whose partner was exchanged to Russia in a prisoner swap.
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