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Goodwin Procter partner joins Californian legaltech startup as first GC
Sean Greaney advises growth companies across the life cycle and brings in-house experience at Beats by Dre
King & Spalding extends East Coast reach with Miami office launch
Atlanta giant appoints tobacco and consumer products trial practice head Randy Bassett as office head
Norton Rose Fulbright appoints 54 partners in North America-focused round
Global giant achieves 40% target for women lawyers for third year running; Reed Smith promotes 31
Companies and law firms need to prepare for new Corporate Transparency Act reporting requirements now
Businesses that fail to provide the correct information to FinCEN could swiftly find themselves in violation of the law, writes Sandra Feldman
Disney adds Spotify’s top lawyer as general counsel and secretary
Horacio Gutierrez to join the entertainment giant in February, succeeding longtime GC Alan Braverman
Almost a third of global companies expect disputes to increase in 2022, study finds
Covid and Cybersecurity-related rifts seen as biggest threats, Baker McKenzie report shows
Hausfeld targets competition and financial services claims as it makes up four partners
Quartet of lawyers – two in the US and two in the UK – make the grade in 2022 promotion round
Ex-Labaton Sucharow quintet launch firm for SEC whistleblowers
Team made up of SEC alumni and led by whistleblower practice head Jordan Thomas take clients to found new firm
Orrick builds antitrust offering with DC partner hires
Eileen Cole and Craig Falls join tech-focused firm from White & Case and Dechert
New England’s Verrill strengthens Boston presence with Rackemann combination
Deal grows Portland-based firm's Boston attorney headcount to 60 as duo cite cultural and practice fit
Jones Day makes up 48 to partner in another bumper round
Latest promotions follow on from last December’s 50-strong crop
Diversity Lab programme sees 20 US law firms named 'inclusion champions'
Reed Smith and White & Case among those to score at least 70 out of 100 for their D&I efforts
Winston & Strawn builds Chicago litigation offering with McDermott partner duo
Co-chair of McDermott’s class action practice moves over along with product liability specialist
ALSPs capture just 2% of outsourced legal department work for ‘megamatters’, report finds
Billing data analysis suggests in-house teams should focus more on largest matters to achieve cost savings
Sidley adds 42 new partners in bumper round that leans towards litigators
Chicago firm’s litigation group sees 11 lawyers made up in round that is significantly larger than last year’s
Cravath becomes latest Wall Street firm to abandon lockstep pay model
Elite firm moves to modified lockstep two months after losing corporate partner to UK’s Freshfields in New York
Withers builds international art and fashion practice with London partner hire
Senior hires on both sides of the Atlantic also sees arrival of New York trust and estates specialist
Mediation has just become a more valuable international dispute resolution tool for US companies
The Singapore Convention makes mediated settlement agreements enforceable on a global scale, explain Ank Santens and Clemency Wang
Legaltech giant Epiq acquires Canadian ALSP Simplex to expand flexible resourcing platform
New York-based Epiq acquired Hyperion Global Partners last year and launched flexible resourcing arm Epiq Counsel in January
Whatever happened to those down under law firm recruitment roadshows?
A generation of lawyers from Australia and New Zealand cut their teeth in London, now they are more likely to go to New York