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Can AI Beat the Billable Hour? Legal Tech Firms Say Selling AI Products to Law Firms Still a Challenge

In-house teams continue to make up the majority of legal tech company clients and profit growth, tech leaders say.
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Australian Gambling Machine Giant Hires Insider as CLO, Relocates Her to Las Vegas

Anne Tucker is taking the legal reins of Aristocrat Leisure, which has grown to become the world's third-most-valuable gambling company.
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News

Linklaters, Stephenson Harwood Act as Addison Lee Bought by Singapore Group

The London taxi landscape has faced major disruption since the growth of ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Bolt over the last decade.
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News

Firms in Australia Locked in Hiring Frenzy as Players Fight for Regional Work

Departures continue from KPMG and Clyde & Co in Australia.
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Linklaters, Freshfields and Latham Lead Deal Making In Emerging Markets, LSEG Data Shows

The report, which reflects transactions in emerging markets across the first nine months of 2024, also shows China and India to account for 44% of the M&A in the region.
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Features

Political Polarization Prompts Asia's Regional Firms to Seek Out Legal Networks

The age of globalization has faded, creating major change in the legal ecosystem in Asia. While the most notable shift has been Big Law's retreat, regional Asian players are seizing the opportunity to push for international exposure.
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India's CAM, Khaitan and Wadia Ghandy Drive Multimillion-Dollar Acquisitions by Adani, Kotak Mahindra and JFE, JSW Steel

The firms are advising on major transactions involving Indian conglomerate Adani Group, British bank Standard Chartered as well as German conglomerate Thyssenkrupp's Indian subsidiary.
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Simpson Thacher, Nishimura, Mori Hamada Assist on KKR's $4B Winning Bid in Japan

Simpson Thacher and Nishimura have both advised KKR on several of its strategic investments in Japan.
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Kirkland Beijing Partner Defects to China's Han Kun in New York

The departure will leave Kirkland with five lawyers including one partner remaining in Beijing.
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Commentary

Skadden's Big China Cuts and What They Mean for the Market

Skadden has joined a long list of law firms that have made cuts in China. But with so many lawyers already on the market, where will they all find new homes?
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News

'The Progression Is Not Natural': As IPOs Surge in India, Law Firms Try to Keep Up

For domestic and international law firms doing capital markets work in India, the IPO boom presents opportunities but also challenges.
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KWM Files Million Dollar Claim Against Former Global CEO in Hong Kong 

The sum of the claim against Rupert Li comprises three loans worth HK$1 million, HK$2 million and HK$5 million, all granted in 2019. 
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HFW Adds Clifford Chance Construction Partner in Australia

Sean Marriott was an engineer before he was a lawyer
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News

Skadden to Close in Shanghai and Make Cuts to China Corporate Practice

Corporate is Skadden's main practice area in China but a protracted downturn in work has caused many of its rivals to make cuts and close offices.
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News

Bird & Bird Takes Partners From Ashurst and Squire Patton Boggs in Australia

The hires come as the firm has been growing to better service its clients in Australia, the Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
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Q&A

'Always Find Ways to Improve': Stikeman Elliott's New Chair on AI, International Growth, Talent, Compensation and Other Legal Industry Challenges

Montreal partner Peter Castiel took on the role of chair at the elite Canadian firm this month.
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News

White & Case Cuts Partner Promotions for Fourth Year in a Row

The EMEA region dominated the new crop, which will be added to the firm's 800-strong partnership.
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News

King & Wood Mallesons Global Managing Partner Sue Kench Stepping Down

Sue Kench will remain a partner until mid 2025 and a replacement has not yet been named.
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News

Australia's Allens Advises on US$3.5B Telco Network Sale

TPG Telecom's sale is the latest of several recent telco deals.
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News

Pinsent Masons Hires DLA Piper M&A Partner as Part of Growth Strategy

James Stewart, an M&A and equity capital markets partner joins the Sydney office.
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News

Clyde & Co's Fourth Australian Insurance Team Depart as Exits Continue

Patrick Boardman and his team of four lawyers are the fourth insurance team to depart in a year.
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News

Private Equity the Name of the Game for O'Melveny's Singapore Rebuild

The hire of partners Stephanie Keen and Sylvia Taslim is part of the firm's strategic focus on growing its private equity offering globally.
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News

Australian Attorney Investigated for Citing Fake AI-Generated Cases

The lawyer said he didn't fully understand how artificial intelligence worked.
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News

A&O Shearman Capital Markets Partner in Hong Kong Leaves For Jia Yuan

The exit comes as part of the ongoing post-merger changes being implemented by A&O Shearman, including plans to cut 10% of its equity partnership.
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News

Asia Pacific RoundUp: Clayton Utz Takes HFW Partner, Nishimura & Asahi Expands in Vietnam, and Other Moves

Tokyo-based Atsumi & Sakai has recruited an Australian lawyer and an in-house counsel as partners, while India's JSA boosted its corporate offering with a partner hire in Gurugram.
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Q&A

'Lawyers Are Pigeonholed, Wrongly So': Prosus GC Says It's High Time for In-House Lawyers' Business Savvy to Be Seen, and Valued

Paul Peake also discusses some of his pet peeves about working with outside counsel. No. 1 on his list: "Law firm coffee is terrible."
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News

Japan's Nishimura & Asahi Launches in London and Brussels

Over the past year, Nishimura has continued to broaden its global reach, expanding its U.S. and European client base for Asia-bound work.
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News

Clyde & Co Loses Australian Regulatory Partner Amid Ongoing Exodus

Avryl Lattin leaves to take up key in-house role with a development organisation.
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Commentary

'Who By Fire?': Reflecting On Law Firms in a Tumultuous Year

In a year punctuated by law firm mergers, office closures, and wars, law firms might want to take time to reflect on what has transpired and what they might see in the coming year, writes The Global Lawyer. Even in an industry that acts like it knows where it's going, there are no certainties.
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News

Australia's Holding Redlich Hires Seven From KPMG

Philip Jones-Hope led the accounting giant's Canberra practice.
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Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct. 2 in Massachusetts District Court by the Brown Law Firm on behalf of Stephen Austen, accuses certain officers and directors of misleading investors in regard to Symbotic's potential for margin growth by failing to disclose that the company was not equipped to timely deploy its systems or manage expenses through project delays. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, is 1:24-cv-12522, Austen v. Cohen et al.

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Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.

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Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.

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David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.

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