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Milbank struck a deal with Donald Trump, as major law firms have now agreed to spend $340 million collectively on pro bono services aligned with the president’s agenda.
Gulf coast law firm Phelps is expanding its Florida footprint by combining with Beggs & Lane, the firms announced Wednesday.
Circle Internet Group Inc.’s filing for an initial public offering Tuesday revealed that its new president Heath Tarbert has received almost $30 million in total compensation since joining the company.
Three Big Law firms, in securing key advisory roles with
Willkie Farr & Gallagher is committing at least $100 million in pro bono work to causes aligned to “conservative ideals,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday.
President
Sidley Austin has continued to recruit M&A partners from Jones Day with the hire of George Hunter.
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A four-decade-old launchpad for public interest attorneys is getting an overhaul as part of President Donald Trump’s deal with Wall Street law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
“Law firms represent moneyed interests, so there is an inherent conflict here,” said Bill Henderson, a law professor at Indiana University. “They are in bed making a good living with these clients, and there are social consequences to that. And then one day they have to wake up to defend the rule of law?”
A recent study of racial disparities in personal bankruptcy results indicates that implicit bias hinders minorities’ efforts to rid themselves of debt, but trustees who oversee those cases say the process is as fair as possible.
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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.
“Law firms represent moneyed interests, so there is an inherent conflict here,” said Bill Henderson, a law professor at Indiana University. “They are in bed making a good living with these clients, and there are social consequences to that. And then one day they have to wake up to defend the rule of law?”
Lauren Lin is in a hurry. She has less than 48 hours to ship about 5,600 Bitcoin mining machines from Thailand to the US before tariffs imposed on the Southeast Asian country by President
Stablecoin advocates achieved another legislative victory on Wednesday night, adding fresh momentum to one of the few issues with bipartisan accord in a deeply divided Washington.
New York mayoral candidate
Megan Jones joined Vedder Price as a shareholder in its corporate tax and estate planning practice group in Los Angeles, the firm announced Wednesday.
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