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The American Lawyer

Survey: What It Takes to Become a New Partner

In a competitive market, making partner requires a potent mix of hard work, networking and client development skills, respondents said.
29 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

E. Barrett Prettyman Jr., Hogan Leader and Longtime Mentor of Supreme Court Advocates, Dies at 91

E. Barrett Prettyman Jr., who died at the age of 91 on Nov. 4, knew pretty much all there was to know about the Supreme Court and the lawyers who argued before it.
18 minute read

National Law Journal

Movers

By | November 07, 2016
37 minute read

Daily Report Online

'Orange Is the New Black' Writer Headlines Baker & Hostetler Initiative

A unique Baker & Hostetler program to support kids of incarcerated parents started out with lunch and learns in the summer and culminated with a High Museum event at the end of October headlined by Piper Kerman, author of "Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison."
26 minute read

The American Lawyer

Emails Suggest 'Optics' Guided Legal Billing for Clinton Foundation Report

Two years ago The American Lawyer tried and failed to persuade the Clinton Foundation to disclose how much it had paid its lawyers at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to conduct a review of the charity's governance and operations. Thanks to WikiLeaks, we now have some answers.
36 minute read

The Recorder

Latham Grabs Emerging Companies Partner From Cooley

Christopher Shoff has joined Latham & Watkins as a partner in the firm's emerging companies practice. Shoff, who was previously a partner at Cooley, is based in Century City, a market where the growth of the "Silicon Beach" tech scene is driving Latham to expand its footprint, firm leaders said.
14 minute read

New York Law Journal

Boies Schiller Hires American UN Diplomat David Pressman

Boies, Schiller & Flexner said Thursday that it has hired David Pressman, a senior U.S. envoy to the United Nations who has close ties to actor George Clooney and his wife, international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.
16 minute read

New York Law Journal

Law Firm Awards 'Girls Who Code' Founder

By | November 03, 2016
Greenberg Traurig presented the Diana P. Scott Integrity in Action Award to Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, at the law firm's ninth annual Women's Business Forum last week.
7 minute read

Legaltech News

K&L Gates Gives $10M to Client Carnegie Mellon for AI Study

The bulk of the gift will be used to further scientific and scholarly research about the ethical and policy issues surrounding artificial intelligence.
56 minute read

The American Lawyer

Cooley Welcomes Communications Co-Leader From Wiley Rein

Robert McDowell, a former commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission who joined Wiley Rein in 2014, has left the firm to co-lead the global communications practice at Cooley in Washington, D.C., McDowell is the latest top telecom industry partner to depart Wiley Rein in recent months.
52 minute read

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