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The American Lawyer

Deal Watch: Seven Sisters Fly High on Olympic Site Sale

With the 2016 Summer Olympic Games underway in Rio de Janeiro, this week brought news of a sizeable M&A deal with ties to the 2010 Winter Games held in Vancouver.
53 minute read

Legaltech News

Women of Legal Tech: Alison Grounds, Making the Business Case

When a proposal was rejected, she regrouped, calculated the money it could generate and won approval for eMerge.
18 minute read

Texas Lawyer

K&L Gates Lawyer Dies in Tragic White-Water Rafting Accident

Edward Vishnevetsky loved to travel. He had been to Cambodia, South Africa and Thailand. He saw Russia, the homeland of his Jewish immigrant parents. And he trekked to Croatia, Greece, Israel and Turkey. But a month ago, the K&L Gates lawyer died doing what he loved in Costa Rica.
17 minute read

The American Lawyer

After Crossing Atlantic, Hogan Lovells Associate Carries Olympic Torch

Caetano "Cae" Altafin, an associate at Hogan Lovells in Rio de Janeiro, didn't spend the day of the opening ceremonies for the 2016 Summer Olympics in his office. Thanks to a transatlantic journey a year ago, he was busy running outside the stadium.
14 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

How Bad is Criminal Defense Advocacy at the Supreme Court?

A long-simmering problem in U.S. Supreme Court practice is gaining new attention: the allegedly sorry state of advocacy at the court on behalf of criminal defendants. As the Supreme Court relies more and more on the specialized Supreme Court bar, criminal defendants are still represented mainly by "novice" advocates. Some dispute the magnitude of the problem, and any possible remedy may run up against the long-standing culture of resistance by criminal defense lawyers who are loath to give up cases they have handled for years.
18 minute read

Legaltech News

Steptoe & Johnson to Expand Blockchain Practice, Accept Bitcoin Payments

The firm will expand services beyond the bitcoin market to clients looking to leverage the technology for their own markets.
9 minute read

The Recorder

Merchant & Gould Opens Silicon Valley Outpost

The firm hired two former Morgan Lewis litigators from the legal startup Valorem Law Group to open in San Jose.
10 minute read

The American Lawyer

Where the Lawyers Are: Top US Legal Markets by Head Count

Using exclusive survey data, we rank 11 American cities by their populations of big-firm lawyers. Plus, check out our list of firms that dominate those markets.
1 minute read

Daily Report Online

Med-Mal Team Leaves Lewis Brisbois for FisherBroyles and other 'On the Move' News

FisherBroyles is a "virtual" firm, but the Lewis Brisbois team will have a bricks-and-mortar office.
31 minute read

International Edition

King & Wood Mallesons Scores on Sale of Soccer Club to Chinese Investor

For the second time this summer, a British football club has been sold to Chinese investors. King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) is advising on the most recent deal: the sale of West Bromwich Albion Football Club to the Chinese investment group Yunyi Guokai Sports Development.
5 minute read

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