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Law Firm Dodges Class Claims in First-of-Its-Kind Data Security Case

A federal judge ruled that claims against Chicago-based Johnson & Bell for allegedly failing to protect client information must proceed individually in arbitration, not lumped together as a class.
11 minute read

Daily Business Review

Cleary Gottlieb Advises on Pemex Deal

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton represented Pemex in a record $4.8 billion-equivalent securities offering reported to be the largest euro-denominated emerging-market corporate-bond offering ever.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Shkreli's Ex-Lawyer Will 'Prosecute' Him at Fraud Trial, Attorneys Say

Former Katten partner Evan Greebel and ex-pharma CEO Martin Shkreli are continuing to square off before their upcoming fraud trial.
16 minute read

Law.com

Big Law and the Case of the Missing Demand

We have a serious situation on our hands. The 2017 Report on the State of the Legal Market, presented by The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, has concluded, "The past decade has been a period of stagnation in demand growth for law firm services."
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

GOP Mayoral Hopeful Seeks Probe Into de Blasio's Legal Bills

A Republican rival of Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked for prosecutors to investigate how the mayor is paying law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, which is representing him as a probe into his fundraising activities is underway.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Deal Watch: Two Big Firms Advise on Scuttled Unilever-Kraft Heinz Merger

Linklaters and Paul Weiss landed lead roles on a since aborted $143 billion takeover bid for London-based Unilever plc by Pittsburgh-based Kraft Heinz Foods Co., a megamerger that would have united two of the world's largest food companies. Two ex-Freshfields partners also took top financial roles on the ill-fated transaction.
80 minute read

The American Lawyer

Cleary Gottlieb Publishes Trump 'Social Media Attack' Survival Guide

Since his election, President Donald Trump has not let go of his personal Twitter account—or his penchant for lashing out against companies on social media. That practice, unprecedented for a president in the internet age, has put companies on edge. And law firms are being called on to help corporate executives prepare for the fallout from drawing Trump's ire on Twitter. Cleary Gottlieb employed an acronym to describe the president's conduct: "SMA," for "social media attack."
21 minute read

Daily Business Review

Facing Declining GC Budgets, Law Firms Need to Invest in Relationships, Marketing

Tighter corporate budgets put more focus on law firm relationships with in-house counsel, writes marketing executive Don Silver.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Becker & Poliakoff Acquires Litigation Firm Polenberg Cooper

Becker & Poliakoff has acquired the Fort Lauderdale litigation firm Polenberg Cooper to accommodate its litigation workload.
7 minute read

Legaltech News

Tech's 'Horizontal' Place Among Practice Areas: A Q&A with Hogan Lovells' Gallon

The Silicon Valley-based partner talks technology trends impacting lawyers and how tech knowledge is integral to firms “interested in staying relevant.”
12 minute read

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