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Mid-Market Recap: Signs of Momentum for Female Leadership at Midsize Firms

The legal profession, particularly when it comes to firm leadership and highest paid partners, remains, amazingly in 2018, overwhelmingly white and…
8 minute read

The American Lawyer

Latham & Watkins Makes History with $3 Billion in Revenue

The firm became the first to exceed $3 billion in annual revenue last year, setting up a new challenge for anyone looking to take its place atop the Am Law 100.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Let's Help Build a Franchise Company: 5 Things Attorneys Should Consider

How can we help our clients build a chain of locations? Can our emerging clients ever compete with the big companies, the private equity companies, the multinationals with structured finance?
7 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Chairman's Opposition Material to Shareholder Vote in $2B Sale, Justices Rule

The Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a derivative challenge to Diamond Resorts International's $2 billion sale to Apollo Global Management, ruling that shareholders should have been informed of the chairman's opposition to the deal.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Privacy Concerns in Amazon and Aetna-CVS Health Deals: Q&A With a Cyberlaw Expert

ALM talked with Peter Swire, senior counsel at Alston & Bird and privacy and cybersecurity expert at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Scheller College of Business, about some of the legal and data privacy issues surrounding the new, data-driven health care delivery systems. These include the proposed merger between CVS Health and Aetna Inc., as well as the health initiative that Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. recently announced for its employees.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

The Lawyer As Pimp

Although there's no indication that Michael Cohen procured Stormy Daniels and other women for President Trump's pleasure, the word captures the spirit of his job.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

(Self)Dealing Themselves In: New Rules for Setting Board Compensation

Last December, in In re Investors Bancorp Stockholder Litigation, C.A. No. 12327-VCS (Del. Dec. 19, 2017), the Delaware Supreme Court revived concerns about how boards set their own compensation.
8 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Bouchard Approves Shawe's $770M Purchase of TransPerfect

The Delaware Court of Chancery has approved Philip R. Shawe's more than $780 million offer to purchase TransPerfect Global Inc. from his erstwhile business partner Elizabeth Elting, bringing more than three years of fierce litigation to the verge of its final resolution.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Regulators' Inquiries Into Aetna Claims Review Practices Not Likely to Derail CVS Merger: Lawyers

Insurance commissioners in California and Colorado recently announced plans to scrutinize Aetna's practices for granting and denying health care claims—developments that in and of themselves are unlikely to be deal breakers in the insurance giant's proposed $69 billion merger with CVS Health, corporate lawyers say.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Latham Partner Tapped to Serve as MGM's New COO

Christopher Brearton, a high-profile entertainment, sports and media partner hired by Latham & Watkins from O'Melveny & Myers in late 2014, is switching to a top business side role at movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
5 minute read

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