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National Law Journal

Ty Cobb Resigns from Hogan Lovells To Join Trump Legal Team

Ty Cobb's appointment to represent the president comes as other Hogan Lovells' partners' work to oppose the administration.
4 minute read

Are Law Firms Too Sophisticated for Their Own Good?

The challenges besetting Big Law are of its own making. The industry overshot the needs of its clients and overlooked the effect of growth on…
13 minute read

Legaltech News

GC Data Sharing Plan Is 'Wake-Up Call' for Law Firms

A group of 25 general counsel announced a plan to share and analyze data on the law firms they use and the outcomes they achieve, which elicited both trepidation and excitement.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Linklaters Associate Is Latest Big Firm Lawyer Tied to Insider Trading Charges

Fei Yan, 31, was arrested on Wednesday on insider trading charges in a case that alleges he profited from knowledge garnered by his wife, a Linklaters associate working on M&A deals.
11 minute read

Daily Report Online

Indictment Caps Years of Complaints Against Attorney

Two men who filed complaints with the State Bar of Georgia against disbarred Buckhead lawyer Robert T. Thompson Jr. say Thompson's indictment on Tuesday by a Fulton County grand jury caps years of civil and criminal complaints by an unofficial network of his former clients to recover losses stemming from the lawyer's failure to do his job.
6 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Ropes & Gray Lawyer Who Argued 'Obergefell' Isn't Sweating Kennedy Rumors

Ropes & Gray's Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, who argued the historic gay marriage challenge in the Supreme Court, doesn't buy the fears that any successor to Justice Anthony Kennedy will jeopardize the "Obergefell" decision. "We now have hundreds of thousands of individuals acting in reliance on 'Obergefell.' And society has moved forward," he says. The SCB recently caught up with Hallward-Driemeier to talk about his work in this area of the law.
8 minute read

The American Lawyer

Are Law Firms Too Sophisticated for Their Own Good?

The dangerous path Big Law is headed down and what it has to do to change course.
24 minute read

The American Lawyer

GC Data Sharing Plan Is 'Wake-Up Call' for Law Firms

With an interest in pleasing clients, law firm leaders mostly voiced enthusiasm for a plan by 25 GCs to share data on how they've performed. But they realize it could create winners and losers.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

AdvanceLaw Joins About 30 GCs to Measure Law Firm Relationships

The data experiment looks to find what management methods and what behaviors on both sides of the table produce the best results for clients and outside counsel.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

Nixon Peabody Opens in North Carolina With K&L Gates Hires

Nixon Peabody is moving into Raleigh, North Carolina, after hiring four partners away from K&L Gates.
3 minute read

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