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BT announces multi-year expanded partnership with managed legal services provider Factor
Agreement includes increased deployment of ‘empowered negotiators’ with remit to take on more complex work
Eaton promotes new CLO from within as former head departs for Intel
Taras Szmagala takes top legal job after 15 years at the American-Irish power management giant
More than a dozen Am Law 100 firms commit to covering travel for out-of-state abortion care
Some 76 Am Law 100 firms have offices in states that have banned or restricted abortions, Above The Law research shows
Morrison Foerster elects San Francisco M&A partner as new chair
Eric Takeshi McCrath will be the firm’s first ethnically diverse chair when he replaces Larren Nashelsky in October
Morgan Lewis expands in Seattle with arrival of 14 litigators from Calfo Eakes
New office will be co-led by prominent trial lawyers Patty Eakes and Angelo Calfo
New York dominates as Debevoise & Plimpton promotes eight to partnership
Women account for 38% of the promotions, just under the firm’s 40% long-term average
Star appellate attorneys quit Kirkland after Supreme Court gun victory
Duo to form boutique following Chicago giant’s decision to drop Second Amendment cases
Latham & Watkins hires WilmerHale’s former international arbitration head in New York
John Pierce will co-chair Latham’s international arbitration practice alongside Fernando Mantilla-Serrano
Ashurst to open in Texas as it targets US projects work
Third US office sets out to tap market opportunities fuelled by investment in infrastructure
Sullivan & Cromwell, Freshfields advise on €8.6bn Sitel and Majorel merger
Arendt & Medernach, Stibbe and Elvinger Hoss Prussen also advised on the deal
Apple, Google GCs among LCLD members making public diversity pledges
Promises are part of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s Leaders at the Front campaign
Fennemore agrees tie-up with 113-year old East Bay firm Wendel Rosen
Deal adds 56 lawyers to Fennemore’s roster, taking its total headcount to 250
Six Flags adds chief legal officer from Sabre six months after axing GC role
Aimee Williams-Ramey joins following 'strategic reorganisation' that saw GC Laura Doerre leave last December
Brown Rudnick elects tax partner as next chair and CEO
Vincent Guglielmotti takes over from William Baldiga as US firm's youngest ever leader