Wake Up Call: UK Law Firms Ditch Pride as Trump Attacks DEI
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Seven partners left Willkie Farr & Gallagher, one of the nine firms that made a deal with President Donald Trump, to join Cooley’s litigation department in San Francisco.
Former GWG Holdings Inc. bondholders sued over an undisclosed relationship between a onetime bankruptcy judge and an attorney involved in the life insurance company’s bankruptcy, alleging “unprecedented and systemic corruption.”
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has joined the boutique Washington DC law firm founded by former Attorney General Bill Barr.
The Florida Supreme Court should allow people without an American Bar Association-accredited JD to take the state’s bar exam, according to comments submitted to a state workgroup.
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Arthur Aidala had an unexpected confession in his final message to jurors: His wife doesn’t always want to have sex with him.
A 60-second spot highlights an emerging strategy, seeking to turn consumers against the plaintiffs’ bar and litigation funders.
Job seekers bringing a closely watched bias lawsuit targeting Workday’s AI-powered hiring software are fighting to uncover information needed to make or break their claims, and inspire similar cases.
The frequent use of AI in the workplace has almost doubled over two years with the highest users in the technology, professional services and financial sectors, according to a Gallup survey released Monday.
Federal public defenders need an additional $116 million this summer to avoid an expected budget shortfall and the “catastrophic complications” that stem from starting the next fiscal year in a deficit, a top defender warned Democrats.
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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.
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A LastPass US LP customer said in a federal lawsuit that because of the password manager’s negligence leading to a data breach incident, robbers stole $200,000 of his cryptocurrency.
Ripple Labs Inc. and the SEC asked a federal judge to indicate she would modify a judgment barring certain token sales and imposing a $125 million penalty, so that they can proceed toward settlement.
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