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Goodwin Procter embarks on round of US job cuts
Associates, paralegals and business professionals affected; cuts follow similar move at Cooley
Transactions department dominates in 18-strong promotions round at Morrison Foerster
Women make up nearly 40% of round that sees lawyers make partner across the US, London, Singapore and Tokyo
Withers builds in Texas with Houston private client boutique bolt-on
Hire of Dossey & Jones’ four-strong team sees Withers effectively relaunch in Houston after loss of partner last year
Life sciences consultancy Trinity adds veteran tech GC as first legal leader
Paul Lucchese joins Trinity Life Sciences from EnterpriseDB following creation of 'strategic partnership' with Bain & Company that saw Bain take minority stake in Trinity
O’Melveny elevates 11 to partner in litigation focused round
Exclusively US cohort includes litigators in the entertainment, consumer class actions and IP teams
Trio of Wall Street law firms fired up for BDT Capital’s $3.7bn Weber take-private deal
Cravath acts for BDT Capital as teams from Davis Polk and Sullivan & Cromwell advise Weber
Seyfarth elects first woman to lead firm
New York co-managing partner Lorie Almon to take over from Pete Miller next year
Paul Hastings adds leading finance partner in New York from Weil Gotshal & Manges
Morgan Bale joins after 24 years at Weil having advised clients including Citi and Goldman Sachs on major deals
King & Spalding adds 24 new partners in corporate and disputes focused promotions round
Atlanta giant again focuses on home turf in round featuring 42% women
Biotech unicorn Mammoth Biosciences adds new GC in California from Intuitive Surgical
Siang Chin joins biotech company co-founded by Nobel laureate as Mammoth’s former GC heads to Intuitive
Majority of UK public would join a class action – even if awareness of them remains low
Support for group claims comes despite lingering suspicion over perceived US ‘import’ into UK legal system, study finds
Cooley lays off 150 lawyers and staff in response to 'unexpected economic downturn'
Seventy-eight attorneys affected across US network as CEO blames ‘aggressive hiring’ during boom
Dechert names successors to chair Levander as it rings in new global leadership team
Corporate partners David Forti and Mark Thierfelder to serve as co-chairs; US firm also retires CEO role and announces first global managing partners
Raft of top firms called in as Royal Bank of Canada buys HSBC Canada in ‘once in a generation’ $13.5bn cash deal
Allen & Overy, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz among those acting for RBC as Linklaters advises HSBC’s Canada arm
FTX and the need to be careful regarding crypto regulation
Syed Rahman advises against a knee-jerk regulatory response to the collapse of the world's second-largest crypto exchange