By Marcia Coyle | July 12, 2017
Financial disclosure reports can be fairly routine. A lawyer leaving a firm reveals annual compensation, a list of clients who received legal services, and maybe some investments. But that wasn't all Courtney Elwood, now general counsel to the CIA, put in her report recently. She noted something else: office furniture that she planned to retain from her former firm Kellogg Hansen.
By Katelyn Polantz | July 12, 2017
Besides the political drama amid probes into the Trump campaign's Russia ties, the report may have special resonance in a legal industry struggling with substance abuse issues.
By Marcia Coyle | July 12, 2017
Ropes & Gray's Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, who argued the historic gay marriage challenge in the Supreme Court, doesn't buy the fears that any successor to Justice Anthony Kennedy will jeopardize the "Obergefell" decision. "We now have hundreds of thousands of individuals acting in reliance on 'Obergefell.' And society has moved forward," he says. The SCB recently caught up with Hallward-Driemeier to talk about his work in this area of the law.
By C. Ryan Barber | July 12, 2017
After nearly four years as the Federal Trade Commission's top antitrust enforcer, Debbie Feinstein is returning in September to Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, where she will lead the global antitrust group, the firm said Wednesday.
By Todd Cunningham | July 12, 2017
Prominent entertainment attorney Schuyler "Sky" M. Moore has joined Greenberg Glusker as a partner in its entertainment practice.
By Roy Strom | July 12, 2017
With an interest in pleasing clients, law firm leaders mostly voiced enthusiasm for a plan by 25 GCs to share data on how they've performed. But they realize it could create winners and losers.
By Roy Strom | July 11, 2017
A Citi Private Bank survey of managing partners' confidence in the second half of 2017 shows they are more bullish on demand, despite meager growth in the first quarter.
By Meredith Hobbs and Katelyn Polantz | July 11, 2017
With an annual salary of roughly $6.3 million per year, Christopher Wray is a rarity among Big Law equity partners, particularly for partners at Atlanta-based firms.
By Meghan Tribe | July 10, 2017
Nixon Peabody is moving into Raleigh, North Carolina, after hiring four partners away from K&L Gates.
By Meghan Tribe | July 10, 2017
As the tech market continues to boom in New York, Cooley has added Greenberg Traurig M&A partner Meredith Beuchaw to its global mergers and acquisitions practice, the firm announced on Monday.
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