By Meghan Tribe | September 19, 2017
From bikes to trains to video games, a quartet of large law firms led by Kirkland & Ellis is advising on the Chapter 11 case of toy retail giant Toys “R” Us Inc., which became the latest in a string of struggling brick-and-mortar retailers to file for bankruptcy this year.
By Meghan Tribe | September 18, 2017
In the seemingly never-ending quest by in-house legal departments to trim their expenditures on outside lawyers, legal recruiting giant Major, Lindsey & Africa has released its Make-Buy Analysis tool to help GCs decide between hiring a new attorney for their in-house staff or rely on external counsel.
By Rose Walker | September 18, 2017
The Am Law 100 firm is poised to shed or move up to 90 jobs in London to its back office operations centers in Birmingham, England, or Johannesburg, South Africa, as part of U.K. a restructuring plan.
By Roy Strom | September 18, 2017
Longford Capital Management LP on Monday announced the latest headline figure in the litigation finance industry. Longford said it raised $500 million for a second fund that will dwarf the initial $56.5 million fund that the Chicago-based firm raised three years ago.
By Katelyn Polantz | September 15, 2017
It's been another busy week in the nation's capital for lawyers and news-watchers alike.
By James Booth | September 15, 2017
The Washington, D.C.-based Am Law 100 firm has become the second major law firm from the U.S. to open an office in Ireland after last year's so-called Brexit vote in the U.K.
By Rebecca Cohen | September 14, 2017
David King, a former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett associate who spent nearly the past seven years at buyout giant The Carlyle Group LP, has joined Kirkland & Ellis as an investment funds partner in the Bay Area.
By Katelyn Polantz | September 14, 2017
Sean Marotta, a senior appellate associate at Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C., had coffee with 15 summer associates this year who found him over Twitter. The National Law Journal caught up with Marotta to review some of what he learned from them.
By Meghan Tribe | September 13, 2017
Career coach Elena Deutsch is launching an online program at the end of the month with the specific goal of helping women transition out of careers in Big Law.
By Miriam Rozen | September 13, 2017
Jenny Durkan, a former federal prosecutor who joined Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in early 2015 to open the firm's Seattle office, has taken a leave of absence from the firm as she mounts a mayoral bid in her hometown. Ed Murray, Seattle's soon-to-be-former-mayor, is set to resign amid a sex abuse scandal.
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