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LawCare launches 2025 surveys on mental health and wellbeing in the legal sector
Surveys seek to uncover the causes of stress and anxiety for lawyers
Simmons bags DLA Piper’s UK competition head
Sarah Smith joins as head of Simmons’ UK competition and antitrust team following predecessor’s exit for Kirkland last year
Blow for Getty Images after UK judge removes class representative in copyright dispute with Stability AI
Case highlights challenges of bringing infringement claims against AI platforms, currently the subject of a government consultation exercise
Jones Day signs up former lord chancellor Alex Chalk as a partner in London
Chalk follows footsteps of ex-lord chancellor Lord Falconer and former attorney general Lord Goldsmith in joining a top US law firm
Milbank makes up 17 in latest partner promotions round
New York stalwart promotes heavily in hometown and across alternative investments and energy
Cleary, Freshfields secure major wins for Amazon and Apple as CAT strikes down class action
First outright rejection of certification effectively tightens UK’s class action regime putting spotlight on independence of class representatives
Shortlist unveiled for 2025 Women and Diversity in Law Awards
Roster includes 170 individuals and array of law firms, in-house teams, suppliers and not-for-profits
CMS rings in second redundancy round in 18 months
Firm to cut 15 roles in its real estate transactions practice, according to reports
American Public Transport Association hires GC from PBGC
Taria Barron replaces Linda Ford, who departed the organisation in August
SICC marks 10th anniversary with transnational dispute resolution conference
Speakers included Chief Justice of Singapore Sundaresh Menon
Sidley recruits M&A partners in New York from Jones Day, Simpson Thacher
David Grubman joins from Jones Day to co-lead Sidley’s global M&A practice as Adam Cromie moves over from Simpson Thacher
RPC names successor to managing partner Miller
Litigator Antony Sassi to take helm in May following James Miller’s eight years in the role
INTA files amicus brief in support of trademarking photorealistic facial images of people
Influential body argues image of a face ‘may well serve as a means to distinguish goods and services’
Clifford Chance taps Skadden for private capital heavyweight Embley in London
Bruce Embley co-headed Freshfields’ global M&A practice before joining Skadden in 2020
Cravath, Davis Polk advise on Johnson & Johnson’s $14.6bn Intra-Cellular acquisition
Cravath advises longtime client J&J as it boosts key neurological drugs division