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Where (and Why) Law Firm Lateral Partner Activity Is Surging
"There is a boom coming. We just don't know when," one recruiter said this week. "But it's absolutely coming, and it's going to be synonymous with the interest rate drops."
Meet the Texas Lawyers Behind the Wellhead Trade Secrets Dispute
IWS and Downing are direct competitors in the market of systems and methods for controlling hydraulic fracturing operations.
Antitrust Laws and Their Interpretive Dilemmas—A Counseling Scenario (Part 2)
"The complaint is not just that a reversal in law undermines the law's stability, but that it's unfair to participants standing on one side of the decision line," writes Randy D. Gordon.
'Harder to Justify' Counsel Tiers in Big Law, Amid Focus on Nonequity Partners, Lateral Recruiting
"For a lot of firms, nonequity partners are replacing counsel to a large degree," noted one law firm recruiter.
Bracewell Launches Paris Office With 11-Lawyer Norton Rose Energy Team
The Norton Rose Fulbright energy and infrastructure team, led by three partners, expands Bracewell's reach into France and French-speaking Africa.
Things Could Get Confusing After Dueling Rulings on Noncompetes
"Come September, if this situation persists, there will be garden-variety, noncompete employment cases in courts across the country where defendants, whether employees switching companies or companies hiring employees in the face of noncompetes from their prior job, will likely assert that the FTC is a defense to the enforcement of a noncompete," attorney John Siegal said.
'A Change Agent': Lawyers Look Back at Kamala Harris' Legal Career in California
"As attorney general, Kamala Harris was a change agent to law enforcement in the state; as president, she will do the same in my opinion," said Jeff Tsai, who was a California special assistant attorney general from 2013 to mid-2015.
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'Find Your Happy Place': Why Vacations Are Essential for Mind, Body and Soul (and Work)
Rather than vacations being considered apart from one's career, they are now part and parcel of it," writes columnist and professor Michael P. Maslanka.
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Draws Yet Another Challenge
"So it doesn't matter what the content of the act is. If the act violated the quorum clause in the way it was passed through Congress, then it's invalid, no matter how laudable the goals of the legislation might be. If a law is unconstitutional, it's unconstitutional," plaintiff's attorney Eric Heigis said.Trending Stories
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