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Reed Smith expects all US offices to be fully reopened in September

Firm outlines phased return that will be supported by permanent flexible working arrangements

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Women lawyers honour Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with scholarship project

Programme to provide financial and mentoring support to women seeking a career in law

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Vinson & Elkins names next chair as firm creates new executive committee

Partner Keith Fullenweider will replace outgoing chairman Mark Kelly at the start of next year

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Willkie Farr raids Mayer Brown for quartet of insurance partners in California and New York

Team is led by Mayer Brown's former co-leader of its US insurance regulatory group Kara Baysinger

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Silicon Valley firm Gunderson Dettmer eyes Texas venture capital deals with Austin launch

New office will be led by partner Wesley Watts, who joins from Vinson & Elkins

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Sidley Austin litigation co-head set to become first Latina leader of a top 10 Am Law firm

Yvette Ostolaza will replace Larry Barden in April next year as management committee chair

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David Chameli: 'The best way to understand a business is to walk in the steps of the employees'

Heritage-Crystal Clean's GC on ESG, learning a company's ropes first-hand and the importance of mentoring

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Kirkland & Ellis opens Austin office to tap into city's tech and renewable energy markets

New office is the firm's third in Texas, adding to its presence in Houston and Dallas

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Withers opens in Boston as it hires trio of patent partners from Burns & Levinson

New team expands firm's global tech practice, focusing on life sciences and venture capital

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NFL-based rule sees law firms boost leadership diversity at a faster pace than peers

Early adopters of Diversity Lab's Mansfield Rule outpace non-adopters by more than 30 times

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Sheppard Mullin elects new chair as veteran lawyer Guy Halgren steps down after two decades

Washington DC-based corporate partner Lucantonio Salvi will assume the role in October

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Law firms still struggling on gender equality, according to US study

Yale Law Women survey highlights that only 20% of equity partners are women

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Holland & Knight in talks to merge with Dallas-based Thompson & Knight

Deal with tentative summer closing date would be largest US merger since Covid-19 struck

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Cooley makes double capital markets hires in New York amid SPAC boom

Rupa Briggs and Nicolas Dumont join as partners from White & Case and Fenwick & West respectively

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Linklaters names New York-based antitrust partner as new US global practice head

Thomas McGrath replaces the Diageo-bound Tom Shropshire with immediate effect

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