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Corporate Counsel

Investment Firm Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Hires Bracewell Partner as General Counsel

Jarvis Hollingsworth succeeds Kayne's current top lawyer, David Shladovsky, who has been with the firm since 1997 and also serves as secretary and senior managing director.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

DOJ Alleges Discrimination at TransPerfect in Hiring for Clifford Chance Project

In an administrative complaint, government attorneys alleged that TransPerfect's staffing agency engaged in a "pattern and practice" of discrimination from April to July 2017, while hiring lawyers to work on a client's document-review project in Washington, D.C.
4 minute read

Law.com

The Law Firm Disrupted: Change Ahead for the Billable Hour, and This Column

Clifford Chance is piloting a program to do away with the billable hour. It only took 17 years. Plus, columnist Roy Strom bids farewell.
8 minute read

The American Lawyer

Reed Smith Takes Last US Partner from Kramer Levin's Individual Clients Practice

Cheryl Hader is joining Reed Smith's trusts and estates team in New York.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Will the Demise of the Billable Hour Start in the Middle East?

In detaching billable hours from attorney evaluations in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Clifford Chance wants to generate data to guide future decisions. But expect broader change in the industry to come slowly.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

Big Law or Big Four? For Firms, It's Not Size of Tech But How You Use It

As the Big 4 continue to amass a serious challenge to Big Law, the competition may rely less on who has the bigger wallet and become more about who can find the most creative solutions to complicated problems clients are facing.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Reports of London's Post-Brexit Breakdown Have Been Exaggerated

Any change to London's status as a financial center is likely to be gradual, not sudden, and few alternatives currently exist.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Global Firms Are Struggling in China as Work Dries Up

After years of outbound Chinese investment, the wave of work being steered toward global firms has quickly begun to recede.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr

As lawyers, we have certain skills, and using them on behalf of people for whom such help is otherwise unavailable helps to make the world a fairer, more just place.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Morrison & Foerster

From securing elections to putting the government to its burden in criminal cases to protecting the rights of the disabled, every case is vitally important to the clients and to me.
3 minute read

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