HSF Leadership Votes to Remove Partner Over ‘Deeply Offensive’ Tweets
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HSF Leadership Votes to Remove Partner Over ‘Deeply Offensive’ Tweets

Herbert Smith Freehills voted to remove partner Damien Hazard over a tweet targeting a Jewish lawyer amid a synagogue arson investigation.
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Another Partner Leaves Australia’s Corrs for King & Wood Mallesons

Foreign investment lawyer Lizzie Knight to join KWM’s Canberra Office.
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Kirkland, Debevoise & Nishimura Advise On $8.2B Japanese Acquisition of Resolution Life 

The transaction, which sees seven law firms provide counsel, follows Nippon Life’s initial 2019 investment in the business in 2019.
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London’s Blackstone Chambers Bolsters Asia Presence, Hires Disputes Specialist in Singapore

Sapna Jhangiani KC is a part-time judge at the Dubai International Financial Centre’s Courts as well as the first female lawyer in Singapore to become a silk in England, having been appointed in 2020.
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HSF Investigating “Deeply Offensive” Partner Tweet Directed at Jewish Lawyer

The firm’s Australian office says it has apologized to the lawyer targeted.
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Hong Kong Boutique Practice Lures K&L Gates Capital Markets Partner

Iris Leung joins Edwin Kwok & Co, a Hong Kong boutique set up by a former O'Melveny & Myers partner four months ago
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Asia Hires: Baker McKenzie Partner Exits For Singapore Boutique & Other Moves 

Mishcon de Reya’s affiliate practice in Hong Kong hired a partner from Seattle-based K&L Gates.
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Lawyers Should Only Use AI For Low-end Tasks, Regulators in Australia Say

Lawyers must understand AI so they can advise clients.
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Court Upholds Law Forcing Sale or Ban of TikTok in the US

“[T]he Government’s aim is to preclude a foreign adversary from manipulating public dialogue," Judge Douglas Ginsburg wrote for the appellate court. "To that end, the Act narrowly addresses foreign adversary control of an important medium of communication in the United States.”
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Simmons & Simmons Make Waves with 'Legal Personhood' Initiative for Whales

The bill aims to grant legal 'personhood' to whales and other aquatic mammals.
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