Alexa Woronowicz

September 27, 2017 | Corporate Counsel

By now you have heard about the momentum started by the Corporate Legal Operation Consortium (CLOC), a nonprofit group consisting of legal operations professionals who are driving positive change across the corporate legal services ecosystem. CLOC is becoming an influential group of people who are rallying not just their colleagues around the world but general counsel, in-house legal teams, technologists, law firms and other service providers who are equally as passionate about finding the best paths, processes and tools to guide legal departments to operate more like businesses.

By Pratik K. Patel

5 minute read

September 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Criminal defense attorney Peter Quijano of Quijano & Ennis received the 2017 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Second Circuit on Tuesday

By David Handschuh, Photographer

1 minute read

September 27, 2017 | The American Lawyer

In its quest for global dominance, Dentons has announced a combination with Kampala Associated Advocates, the largest law firm in Uganda. The move follows nearly a dozen other combinations unveiled by the global legal giant in recent months.

By Joseph Evans

3 minute read

September 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal

State Environmental Regulation columnist Charlotte A. Biblow writes: The decision issued at the end of August by the state Department of Environmental Conservation denying certain approvals in connection with a proposed natural gas pipeline that would fuel a major new power plant in Orange County may have been seen by environmental activists as a mechanism for local and state regulators to control greenhouse gases in place of a recalcitrant federal government. The euphoria of environmental activists statewide, however, may have been tempered by a subsequent order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

By Charlotte A. Biblow

8 minute read

September 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal

In their Corporate Governance column, David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh write: With the evidence for board diversity very much in the public domain, the behavior of hedge fund activists seeking board representation has been somewhat puzzling. Hedge fund activism has been notably counterproductive in terms of gender diversity on public boards.

By David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh

6 minute read

September 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Anahita Thoms writes that on July 12, Germany tightened its control over acquisitions of domestic companies by foreign investors by introducing amendments to the Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance. As a result the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy can now block certain acquisitions more easily based on security reasons, which aligns Germany more closely to the regime in the United States.

By Anahita Thoms

6 minute read

September 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal

David M. Banker, Wojciech F. Jung and Eric Jesse write that the benefits of directors and officers insurance policies have been curtailed by the breadth of some courts' broad application of the "insured vs. insured" exclusion, which is common to D&O policies. Some courts have expanded the exclusion's scope to reach claims brought by or on behalf of the bankruptcy estate against insured directors and officers. Nevertheless, there are certain steps that bankruptcy and insurance practitioners can take to avoid or minimize the pitfalls of the insured vs. insured exclusion.

By David M. Banker, Wojciech F. Jung and Eric Jesse

7 minute read

September 27, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

An appellate court in New Jersey has affirmed a decision denying a homeowner's request for a grant to repair his home after Superstorm Sandy on the ground that the repair estimates he submitted were inadequate.

By Steven A. Meyerowitz

6 minute read

September 27, 2017 | The American Lawyer

This ranking details how firms stack up when it comes to the all important revenue per lawyer metric.

By Alexa Woronowicz

1 minute read

September 27, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Here are the 40 largest law firms in China based on gross revenue.

By Alexa Woronowicz

1 minute read