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Freshfields beats gender target for fourth year in a row in latest partner promotion round

Magic Circle firm elevates 23 to partner, with women accounting for more than half of promotions

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Skadden, Slaughter and May lead on International Paper’s £5.8bn DS Smith acquisition

Deal sees Skadden-repped International Paper beat earlier offer from British rival Mondi

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Orrick hires Kramer Levin’s life sciences head in New York

Irena Royzman is fourth IP partner to join tech-focused firm this year

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‘A new apex predator in town’ - Paul Weiss continues to target London's top tier firms for talent

Linklaters among practices in firing line as impact of New York firm’s ongoing hiring spree ripples through market

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Tech innovation is expected to fuel IP filing boom over next 12 months, study finds


UnitedLex survey also shows that regulatory changes and resource constraints are weighing on IP teams

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NFL team Chicago Bears raids NBA’s Miami Heat for CLO

Krista Whitaker will head the Bears’ legal department following departure of veteran GC Cliff Stein in January

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Quinn Emanuel signs deal with Longford Capital to finance client litigation

Litigation funder has committed up to $40m in funding for the firm’s private equity clients

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IBM taps Vanguard for next legal chief

Anne Robinson will replace long-time IBM lawyer Michelle Browdy at the start of July

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US bill would require AI companies to disclose copyrighted work in training models

Growing prevalence of AI in creative space makes legislative guidance on use of copyrighted work to train software ‘seem inevitable’

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Frost Brown Todd opens in Denver with nine partner hires from local firms

New arrivals join from Moye White, Brownstein and Lewis Roca

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ArentFox Schiff hires automotive partner quartet from Burns & Levinson

New team including veteran lawyers Paul Marshall Harris and Sara Judge will be based in Boston

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Apple urges US appeals court to lift import ban on watches over patent infringements

Tech giant has ‘tough road’ on claim International Trade Commission exceeded authority and made ‘defective’ patent rulings

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Swiss smartwatch-maker Garmin names first new GC in more than quarter of a century

Associate GC Josh Maxfield will replace long-time GC Andrew Etkind in July

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A&O Shearman announces first partner promotions round ahead of May merger


Allen & Overy accounts for 32 of the promotions and Shearman eight, with women making up 42% of the cohort

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Freshfields, Fenwick & West advise on Johnson & Johnson’s $13.1bn acquisition of Shockwave

Purchase of heart tech-maker Shockwave Medical is latest in series of deals to bolster J&J’s cardiac health division

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