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The American Lawyer

The Five Strategies of Highly Successful Firms

The most profitable firms have several traits in common. How does yours compare?

55 minute read

International Edition

2 More Ex-Cadwalader China Partners Find New Homes

Former Asia managing partner Rocky Lee has joined King & Wood Mallesons while former Hong Kong partner Stephen Chan arrives at Dechert.
18 minute read

National Law Journal

Trump Taps Skadden's Lighthizer for U.S Trade Representative

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Robert Lighthizer, a free-trade critic and longtime partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, as his choice to serve as the next U.S. trade representative.
29 minute read

The American Lawyer

The Profitability Quick Fix That Isn't

To boost profits, some large firms have cut equity partners and grown their nonequity ranks. They're misguided. Firms trying to boost profits per equity partner by increasing the ranks of nonequity partners should focus instead on growing revenue.
25 minute read

The American Lawyer

Deal Watch: Four Firms Handle Second-Largest Merger of 2016

Cravath, Hengeler Mueller, Linklaters and Sullivan & Cromwell are advising on the second-largest deal of 2016: Praxair Inc.'s proposed $35.2 billion buy of industrial gas rival Linde AG.
45 minute read

National Law Journal

Wachtell's George Conway a Potential Trump Pick for Solicitor General

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz litigation partner George T. Conway III is being considered to serve as U.S. solicitor general in President-elect Donald Trump's administration, according to media reports. Conway's represented major corporate clients at Wachtell, where he's been a partner since 1994, and argued one case in the Supreme Court. On his thinking about presidential power: "In a case involving his private conduct, a president should be treated like any private citizen," Conway wrote in a 1994 op-ed challenging Bill Clinton's push to evade litigation of sexual misconduct claims. "The rule of law requires no more—and no less." Conway is married to Kellyanne Conway, who's set to become counselor to Donald Trump.
10 minute read

The American Lawyer

US Women's Soccer Team Ousts Ex-Big Law Leader

Richard Nichols, a Dallas-based lawyer who once worked at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and K&L Gates predecessor Hughes & Luce, has been let go from his role as executive director of the U.S. women's national soccer team. The move comes as the team seeks a new collective bargaining agreement.
32 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

For Big Law, 2016 Served Up a Surprise at Every Turn

For Pennsylvania's largest law firms, 2016 waffled like an indecisive kid in a candy store, with news of mergers that almost were, finances that looked bad to start but perked up by year's end, unexpected choices to be had on salaries and bonuses, and layoffs coupled with streams of large acquisitions.
32 minute read

Litigation Daily

2016 in Review: Litigators of the Week, Take a Bow

A look back at the Litigator of the Week winners in 2016, including the firms and lawyers that racked up the most honors.
210 minute read

The American Lawyer

Norton Rose Fulbright Heads to PNG, Plus More Lateral Moves

Global legal giant Norton Rose Fulbright looks to new horizons; Akin Gump and Fox Rothschild reel in some new recruits; Cooley and Goodwin Procter keep growing; Weil make a high-profile antitrust hire; and other notable additions from throughout The Am Law 200.
354 minute read

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