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Arrival of Noah Carr and Gordon Palmquist comes hard on the heels of Kirkland’s Tokyo launch | 4mos

Edited by Brown Rudnick partners Jessica Lee and Jane Colston, guide analyses cryptoasset regulation in a rapidly evolving global legal landscape. | 4mos

Kevin Donahue and Jacob Clark join group that was launched in May amid data centre investment boom | 4mos

McDermott Will & Schulte becomes first to match new pay scale, which hits $455k for eighth year associates | 4mos

Roundtable event at London’s RSA Club to launch Law Over Borders Fashion Guide highlights AI-related copyright and litigation challenges | 4mos

Norris Nissim leaves asset management firm Luxor Capital after almost two decades | 4mos

Lord Neuberger, Toby Landau KC and Karyl Nairn KC all used their International Arbitration Day keynotes to argue that reform is needed to preserve confidence in a successful system on a lively opening day | 4mos

Jason Boehmig to join firm as product leader for its new legal vertical offering | 4mos

Deep-sea mining and commercial space activity may fuel rise in geopolitical disputes | 4mos

Off-cycle round is US firm’s first since introducing a salaried partner tier earlier this year | 4mos

Scott Keller joins as GC in July and will replace R. Hewitt Pate as CLO at the start of next year | 4mos

Thirty-one advocates set up Scotland’s first new stable of advocates in almost 20 years to form 1Six Chambers | 4mos

Firms that succeed with legal directory rankings are those that treat submissions as a year round process, not a last minute scramble, writes AKH Legal Consulting’s Alex Holtum | 4mos

Anna Bradley to step down from the SRA board, while the Law Society elects next deputy vice president and the Bar names vice chair | 4mos

Fieldfisher raids Clyde & Co but loses partner to BCLP, while Clyde & Co restocks from Womble Bond Dickinson | 4mos

M&A lawyers Simon Rahimzada and Vasi Papadopoulos join firm ahead of its merger with Cadwalader | 4mos

M&A and debt finance trio join from MoFo, White & Case and Ropes for Chicago giant’s first Asian office outside Greater China | 4mos

Tie-up of Winston & Strawn and Taylor Wessing’s UK-led business completed today, creating firm with 1,400 lawyers and £1.2bn in revenue | 4mos

As London International Disputes Week returns, it offers the London Court of International Arbitration a chance to show what institutional renewal looks like in practice, writes Ben Rigby | 4mos