The Global Lawyer: Law = Money + Friction
You could feel the heat emanating from many of our stories last week, with law firms taking lucrative work from one another, splitting apart, turning the money screw to near intolerable levels, and even throwing shade.
January 24, 2022 at 12:04 AM
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The Global Lawyer
Court fights, regulatory clampdowns, office splits and battles for market share have been themes in the news.
Law = Money + Friction
Whether through it or around it, friction is demonstrably the legal industry's life source. And that has never been more apparent than in the current news.
Take for instance a $100 million dispute that has ignited in the Cayman Islands. Involving a clutch of top firms as well as some renowned offshore firms, the politically-charged case sees a law firm accuse the Kuwaiti government of acting "maliciously" in launching a legal action against a private equity fund which it says misdirected funds owed to it.
Lawyers for Kuwait, at Baker McKenzie, have criticised the offshore firm for doing nothing more than engaging in a "press exercise" while Crowell & Moring, which is acting for one of the defendants in the case, has described the case as "politically motivated'.
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