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Paul Hastings adds four partner employment group in New York from Baker McKenzie
Team boosts Paul Hastings’ complex workplace litigation offering
Accessible luxury under fire: the FTC challenges fashion mega-merger
The FTC says Tapestry’s proposed acquisition of Capri could reduce competition in the accessible luxury handbag market, write Michelman & Robinson lawyers Prachi Ajmera and Alaina Cohen
White & Case promotes 37 to partner as intake dips
The number of new women partners also fell, accounting for 22% of the total compared to 36% last year
Houston-based Brock Group hires GC from Booster
Shenna Bradshaw brings 15-years of in-house experience across the industrials sector
GSK sues Moderna over Covid and RSV vaccines
Latest lawsuits in mounting patent litigation over vaccines against the two viruses
Paul Hastings further expands Washington office with litigation hire from Kirkland
Ronald Anguas follows in footsteps of litigation partner Benjamin Snyder, who joined firm in Washington last week
Cleary introduces non-equity partner tier
Follows similar move by rivals Cravath, Paul Weiss and WilmerHale
McGuireWoods bolsters energy coverage with partner hire from Balch & Bingham
David Martin Connelly returns to McGuireWoods in Washington after seven year hiatus
The Authors Guild launches partnership to ensure authors in ‘driver’s seat’ in AI licensing
Collaboration with online platform Created by Humans aims to protect and monetise authors’ work in age of AI
Paul Hastings continues litigation hiring spree with addition of senior DoJ lawyer
Former assistant to the solicitor general Benjamin Sydner joins as a partner in Washington DC
Linklaters, Davis Polk lead on Rio Tinto’s $6.7bn Arcadium acquisition
Former Shearman & Sterling co-managing partner George Casey leads Linklaters team advising Rio Tinto
Linklaters recruits veteran Paul Hastings partner in Washington DC
Jospeh Profaizer to co-lead Linklaters’ international arbitration practice
Top law firms line up to advise on Richemont’s sale of Yoox Net-a-Porter to Mytheresa
Slaughters, Cravath, Bakers and Latham among firms acting on long-awaited offloading of online luxury retailer
Kirkland recruits FTC veteran in Washington DC
Stephen Mohr joins Chicago giant’s antitrust practice as a partner
White & Case hires chief innovation officer from Deloitte Legal
Isabel Parker joins US firm in new global role
Bitcoin start-up Thesis hires former Cooley lawyer as GC
Katherine Snow joins from crypto data platform Messari, where she was CLO
The race is on – UK vs US hiring markets
Higher lawyer salaries in the US are putting UK firms under pressure to compete and attract top talent amid buoyant hiring markets, writes Major Lindsey & Africa’s Nathan Peart
Verizon persuades court to throw out $847m 5G patent infringement verdict
US judge grants retrial as jury’s verdict is ‘against the great weight of the evidence’
US rail operator Amtrak promotes deputy GC to replace retiring legal chief
Byl Herrmann succeeds Eleanor Acheson, who has been in the role since 2007
Kirkland elevates 200 to partnership in latest round, with bulk of promotions in the US
Latest partner intake is down 2% on 2023’s record-breaking round