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The Recorder

Safeguarding Client Funds From Hackers

What happens when a cybersecurity event implicates a firm's trust account? Are lawyers liable when a computer hacker steals client funds that the lawyers were safeguarding?
18 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Justices Probe Ability to Sue Successor Firms for Quantum Meruit

Can law firms that handed off a case to a successor firm recover its fees from the successor firm under a quantum meruit theory, or does the initiating firm need to sue the client?
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Senior Mayer Brown Partner Leaves Firm To Launch IP Boutique

Mayer Brown's global brand management and internet practice co-head Brian Winterfeldt has left the firm alongside four attorneys to establish an intellectual property boutique in Washington, D.C.
21 minute read

New York Law Journal

Line Between Lawyer Ethics and Crime to Highlight Ex-Big Law Partner's Trial

Legal ethicists are expected to take the stand at a trial starting this week against for Evan Greebel, a former Kaye Scholer and Katten Muchin Rosenman partner facing federal conspiracy charges for his role advising disgraced hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli.
20 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Art of Staying Connected Without Overdoing It

When the topic of business development arises, a common question concerns how often someone should reach out to a contact. Interestingly, when I worked in corporations, sales and marketing staff rarely posed such a query, as they tended to be aggressive
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Despite Court Error, Dechert Still on Hook for Seafood Company's $1.8M Loss

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has revived a legal malpractice suit against Dechert, ruling that the firm could have done more to prevent a court's legal error in Tahiti.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

UAE Firm, Ex-Big Law Partner's Shop Unite for London Launch

Peter Gray, a former partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Dubai who was suspended from the firm in 2015 for his role in a dispute with a Djibouti businessman, is merging his small firm with an outfit from the United Arab Emirates.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

PwC Launches On-Demand Flexible Lawyering Service for Clients

The firm says Flexible Legal Resources will help clients with staffing needs by providing temporary lawyers for in-house teams during abnormal spikes in workload.
2 minute read

Legaltech News

New Morrison & Foerster Website Hopes to 'Scale Up' Startup Practice

The new website, ScaleUp, may signal a return to a trend among law firms to provide more online educational resources.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

David Boies to Stay the Course for Longtime Client Weinstein

The Boies Schiller Flexner chairman has adopted a conciliatory tone about Weinstein's negotiations with the film studio that bears his name.
6 minute read

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