Ex-Big Law Partner’s Natural Gas Bet Pays Off With IPO Filing

Venture Global Inc., a liquefied natural gas exporter co-founded by a former Hogan Lovells partner, has filed to list its shares publicly, putting an exclamation mark of success on now-billionaire Bob Pender’s bet on leaving Big Law a decade ago.

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Morgan Lewis Scoops Up 54-Lawyer Kramer Levin Team in Paris

Morgan Lewis & Bockius will acquire Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel’s Paris office, including a 54-lawyer team, the firm said Friday.

Biden Sets New Records for Diversifying Federal Bench

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment as the Supreme Court’s first Black woman justice and first with public defense experience epitomized Joe Biden’s historic expansion of the federal judiciary’s demographic and professional diversity.

Ex-Jones Day Couple Taps DC Litigator for Showdown With Firm

The married lawyers suing Jones Day over the firm’s parental leave policy have hired well-known litigator Alexandra Walsh as the long-running dispute heads toward a jury trial.

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Biden Sets New Records for Diversifying Federal Bench (1)

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment as the Supreme Court’s first Black woman justice and first with public defense experience epitomized Joe Biden’s historic expansion of the federal judiciary’s demographic and professional diversity.