Kirkland & Ellis’ decision to stop disclosing its financial performance shows law firms are hesitant to reveal profits as clients experience spiraling legal costs.
The Justice Department’s corporate crime enforcement hub has lost the bulk of its market manipulation and securities expertise over the past few months, accelerating what former officials call a downgrade of the team’s once-formidable brand.
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Fast-moving changes in artificial intelligence have in-house attorneys scrambling to find the best ways to maximize opportunities and miminize the risk of the transformation in how they do business.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges is adding private equity partner Rebecca Ward to its London office after she spent more than four years at Freshfields.
Lawyers at top artificial intelligence companies raised warnings Thursday over the ability of bad actors to harness the power of open-source models.
A US judge on Friday acknowledged he made a mistake when he wrote an opinion asserting a New York attorney had previously been referred to disciplinary proceedings by a different federal court.
A Michigan state judge who stepped down from the bench earlier this year as he faced a disciplinary complaint for, among other things, going to the courthouse while drunk agreed to a retroactive punishment mandating his retirement.
A coffee shop once located next to Lizzie Borden’s Fall River, Mass., historic home must pay attorneys’ fees to the hotel and museum that operates out of the building because of its recalcitrant behavior during a trademark dispute.
A Florida Bar exam penalty for legal experience — forcing veteran lawyers to pay more than three times what recent law school graduates pay to sit for the test — was upheld by a federal appeals court Friday.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges is adding private equity partner Rebecca Ward to its London office after she spent more than four years at Freshfields.
Kirkland & Ellis’ decision to stop disclosing its financial performance shows law firms are hesitant to reveal profits as clients experience spiraling legal costs.
The AI deals frenzy is jolting Big Law’s M&A leaderboard, with surging capital markets offering some firms a leg up on their rivals.
The AI deals frenzy is jolting Big Law’s M&A leaderboard, with surging capital markets offering some firms a leg up on their rivals.
Big law associates work long days to meet annual targets of around 2,000 billable hours. Why do they do it? The financial rewards are substantial: starting salaries at top tier law firms begin at $225,000 annually. And that's not including lucrative year-end and special bonuses. In this video, we explain the system at the heart of Big Law's big paydays for its junior lawyers.
Samsung computers, Huawei smartphones, Redmi handsets and dozens of Chinese and Malaysian passports. Some suspects fled the scene, and when police moved in, nearly 20 Chinese nationals were taken into custody.
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The swing to deeply-negative sentiment on fixed-income assets this year has gone too far, with the market underpricing the risk of an artificial-intelligence blowup that triggers a rush into bonds, according to Deutsche Bank AG’s
A convicted cryptocurrency fraudster and his fund were ordered to pay a more than $45.1 million penalty to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission over what a federal court called a Ponzi scheme mostly targeting Haitian-American investors in New York.
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