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'I Lost Everything': An Anti-Corruption Judge on Her Escape From Afghanistan

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Judge Lida Kharooti, who served as a judge on Afghanistan's anti-corruption serious crimes court for 13 years, shares how she fled the country when the Taliban took over.
1 minute read

Legaltech News

Paladin Launches New Pro Bono Portal to Aid Israeli Citizens

Justice tech provider Paladin has partnered with the Israel Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association to create an emergency pro bono portal for the legal needs of Israeli citizens amid the Israel-Hamas war.
3 minute read

Law.com

How Jurists Joined Forces to Help Women Judges Evacuate Afghanistan

In this week's episode, Judge Toni Clarke shared how international coalitions helped women judges escape Afghanistan when the Taliban took over.
1 minute read

Legaltech News

Startup Nation at War: Israel's Legal Tech Companies 'Have to Keep Going'

Israel is currently home to many companies and individuals working in legal tech. Legaltech News recently checked in with some of them to discuss how they continue to innovate in times of war.
10 minute read

The American Lawyer

An Am Law CDO's Take: The Impact of the Middle East Crisis on DEI in U.S. Firms

Right now, compassion is lacking. Rather, pain, trauma, and fear are the primary drivers—internally and externally. When those are the drivers, we are in fight-or-flight mode. This causes us to put up walls and prevent productive discourse.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Latham Goes Global for Witness Testimony in Case for 'Fully Distributed' Freelance Platform Client

Latham partner Kevin McDonough and associate Megan Behrman led an effort to gather testimony in a civil case in Nevada state court from witnesses in Portugal, Spain, South Africa, and Canada for freelance platform Toptal, whose employees have been remote since the company's founding.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Muslim Bar Groups Say Law Firms Are Creating 'Hostile' Workplace Through Single-Sided Approach

The latest letter is another example of the fissures developing within law firm communities.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Hamas Is Guilty of 'Genocidal Lynching'

Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks on Israel were "acts of unalloyed hatred of Jews"—the inhumane acts of anti-Semitic terrorists reminiscent of the Einsatsgruppen, Nazi mobile killing units which marched behind the Wehrmacht in World War II to conduct the murder and rape of over a million unarmed civilians, mostly Jews.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

Kirkland Lures White & Case, Latham Partners for New Saudi Arabia Office

Adding rising stars from rivals in Riyadh, Kirkland says its new office will be led by an existing corporate partner from Chicago.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Greenberg Traurig Gets UAE Law License as Big Law Continues Middle East Expansion

This summer saw Am Law 100 firms gaining law licenses, opening offices and making partnerships in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
3 minute read

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