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'Be Prepared and Practice': Paul Hastings' Michelle Reed Breaks Down Firm's First SEC Cybersecurity Incident Disclosure Report

Michelle Reed, co-chair of data privacy and cybersecurity group at Paul Hastings, shared her insights on the biggest takeaways from the novel data and her predictions for cybersecurity disclosures in the year ahead.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Big Law Practice Leaders Gearing Up for State AG Litigation Under Trump

Seeing an opportunity to grow its state AG practice, Wilmer hired Swain Wood, former first assistant attorney general of North Carolina, to co-chair its group.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Piercing the Corporate Veil; City’s Authority To Order Restorations; Standing: This Week in Scott Mollen’s Realty Law Digest

Scott Mollen discusses “New Pelham Parkway N. LLC v. Prieto,” “Mendez v. One Sunset Park Condominium,” and “Mills Pond Grp. LLC v. Town of Smithtown.”
18 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ballard Spahr Aims to Balance Hybrid Work With Relationship Building in Training New Associates

The firm's first-year integration program, branded Ballard Blueprint, emphasizes coaching and offers additional programming spearheaded and led by the first-years themselves.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Deal Watch: Private Equity Dealmakers Make 2025 Predictions Amid Deal Resurgence

Partners from Latham, Proskauer, Kirkland, Morrison Foerster and Skadden say they are optimistic about 2025, citing activity around data centers, infrastructure and other elements of the market.
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Guaranty’s Survival of Its Guarantor Requires Careful Drafting

Since guaranties are important parts of most transactions, careful attention should be paid to selecting your guarantor, drafting the applicable loan document provisions and monitoring the status of your guarantor so that timely action can be taken if needed to make a claim against an estate.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

New York’s Climate Change Superfund Law

On Dec. 26, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act into law. If it survives the many legal challenges it is expected to face, the act has the potential to affect a large segment of the fossil fuel industry by making companies strictly liable for billions of dollars of costs New York anticipates spending on climate adaptation measures. How is the act designed to work, and what can we expect next?
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Law Firms Grapple With Nonequity Partner Pay ‘Friction’

Pay for nonequity partners can approach or overlap with compensation of senior associates, counsel as well as some equity partners, firm leaders and consultants say.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

What KPMG's London Experience Reveals About Its U.S. Strategy

“It is one thing if Continental Europeans get access to equity capital. If the Americans ever get it, this will be over in a week because they are just so entrepreneurial."
5 minute read

Law.com

Does Your Corporate Compliance Program Reasonably Prevent Fraud? New UK Guidance Demands It

This article first discusses the legal backdrop of the UK’s new strict liability law and then summarizes what companies need to know about the new UK guidance, with particular emphasis on the areas where it expands on the ECCP.
11 minute read

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