By Rebecca Cohen | August 30, 2017
Wilson Sonsini has welcomed aboard of counsel Elizabeth George, a former associate White House counsel in the Obama administration who most recently served as deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense in Washington, D.C., for its privacy and data protection practice in San Francisco.
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By Angela Morris | August 30, 2017
Companies run by lawyer CEOs face much less litigation. On the flip side, a lawyer CEO's cautious approach might cause harm by steering a company away from risks that turn out well.
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By Monika Gonzalez Mesa | August 30, 2017
A Greenburg Traurig team represented Intec Pharma Ltd. in a public offering that raised $57.5 million that the company intends to use to fund further clinical trials of a product that could improve the treatment of symptoms of advanced Parkinson's disease.
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Roy H. Wepner | August 30, 2017
The seemingly endless war between certain types of patent owners (often socalled "nonpracticing entities" or NPEs) and certain types of defendants (typically corporations perceived to have deep pockets) has been fought on many fronts over the last decades.
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By Max Mitchell | August 30, 2017
A state court judge has tossed the civil suit attorney Nancy Raynor filed against the lawyers who sought to have her hit with a $1 million sanction over her handling of an expert in a medical malpractice case.
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By Chris Johnson | August 30, 2017
Spanish legal and tax services firm Garrigues has continued to expand its fast-growing Latin America practice with the hire of a Chile labor and employment expert.
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By Commentary by Milton Vescovacci and Adam Miller | August 30, 2017
This article highlights potential problems regarding what the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) refers to as digital investment advisers, but what we hereinafter call robo-advisers, and is not intended as an argument against their use. We accept as fact the usefulness of computerization as we accept the uselessness of unpassed regulations, write attorneys Milton Vescovacci and Adam Miller.
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By Hugh A. Simons | August 30, 2017
Strategist Hugh Simons lays out how many excess partners reside in the Am Law 200 and what that means at the next economic downturn.
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By James Booth | August 30, 2017
Gowling WLG, a roughly 1,400-lawyer firm formed last year following a cross-border combination between British firm Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co and Canadian firm Gowling Lafleur Henderson, earned enough during fiscal 2016-17 to make The Am Law 100 list if it was eligible. The firm does not have an office in the U.S.
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By Randy Evans and Shari Klevens | August 30, 2017
As a result of the changing market for legal services, law firms are not always looking for the same type of candidate when hiring new attorneys as in the past. Because demand from clients can be uneven, particularly for litigation matters, some firms may be reluctant to commit to full-time attorneys in fear that the work won't be there permanently to justify the cost.
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