Wake Up Call: Two Freshfields Partners on Why They Left Kirkland

• Two Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partners say Freshfields has an “extensive European network” and a “full-service corporate platform” that guided their decisions to leave Kirkland & Ellis , which has lost 13 corporate partners in two weeks. (Big Law Business)

• In its first action as a cyber-security enforcer , the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced an e-commerce startup agreed to pay a $100,000 fine and submit to risk assessment of its data security practices twice per year. (Big Law Business)

• A large broker-dealer group in New York is splintering off the Texas-based law firm Bracewell, led by partner Julian Rainero, and joining ...