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The American Lawyer

Hogan Lovells Loses Litigation Quartet in Boston

Months after absorbing Boston-based litigation boutique Collora, four partners from that firm are leaving Hogan Lovells for another smaller local outfit.
4 minute read

International Edition

Clyde & Co Continues US Expansion With Hire of 10-Strong Team in Miami

Expansive U.K. firm takes two-partner team from Hinshaw & Culbertson
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

Steptoe & Johnson Adds Seven-Lawyer Sedgwick Group

Continuing the diaspora of partners that has expanded with Sedgwick's official dissolution, Steptoe & Johnson adds a team of well-known commercial and class action litigators
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

In Big Law Tax Scramble, Sometimes It Takes a Village

How confusion over the tax bill unfolded for a clutch of Big Law partners in Bellport, Long Island.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Litigation Finance Outfit Lake Whillans Raises $125M Fund

It's the first fund raise by the financing outfit and another sign that 2017 was a bumper year for the industry.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Berger & Montague Names First Chairwoman, Savett

Sherrie Savett has led multiple practices at the firm for years, and is now its first chairwoman.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Sedgwick Chair Joins Shook Hardy in San Francisco

Sedgwick leader Michael Healy has found a new home at Shook, Hardy & Bacon following the dissolution of the 85-year-old firm this month.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Orrick, Gibson Dunn Partners Take Seats as California U.S. Attorneys

McGregor Scott, formerly a white collar partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, was sworn into office Dec. 29 in Sacramento a day after U.S. Chief District Judge Lawrence O'Neill ordered his appointment. Separately, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions named Gibson Dunn's Nicola Hanna to serve as the interim U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

After a Record 2017, No Signs of Law Firm Merger Mania Slowing

Altman Weil Inc. said there were 102 mergers last year, topping the record of 91 set in 2015. The long-running factors remain the same. But several new questions have also arisen.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Legal Heavy Hitters Line Up Behind 'Time's Up' Launch

More than 300 women—including lawyers Anita Hill, Roberta Kaplan, Nina Shaw and Christina Tchen—are launching a campaign and a related legal defense fund designed to combat sexual harassment in the workplace.
6 minute read

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