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By Scott Flaherty | August 18, 2017
As Baltimore nears a recommendation for a police monitor under a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, Venable remains as the only law firm in a select group of finalists vying for the role. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, meanwhile, has signed on for an additional three years—and fees of up to $6.4 million—in a similar role in New Orleans after its selection in 2013.
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By Anna Ward | August 18, 2017
Slaughter and May has kicked off a review of the way it appraises its associates, after the firm opted to move away from performance-based pay earlier this year.
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By Lizzy McLellan | August 18, 2017
Pepper Hamilton has a new practice leader focused on consumer finance, after hiring mortgage banking industry veteran Scott Samlin away from Alston & Bird in New York.
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By By MICHAEL MARCIANO | August 18, 2017
Counsel working pro bono for a 16-year-old girl sexually assaulted at a local public library when she was 7 have secured a $750,000 verdict against her attacker, who is serving a 17-year prison sentence.
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By Anna Zhang | August 18, 2017
Alibaba chair Jack Ma-backed brokerage Yunfeng Financial agrees to buy the U.S. insurer along with other Asian investors.
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By Roy Strom | August 18, 2017
Charles Yang's three-lawyer, cloud-based Ntellect Law found a fitting home this month when it merged with FisherBroyles, a pioneering firm that claims to be the largest in a growing crowd of virtual or cloud-based law firms.
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By Anna Zhang | August 18, 2017
The global firm has now added three Hong Kong and China-based management positions to a three-year-old U.S.-led committee.
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By Max Mitchell | August 18, 2017
When a pregnant woman appeared at her obstetrician's office complaining of headache, backache, hypertension and possible decreased fetal movement a few weeks before her baby was due, she was told to return home, apply Bengay cream to her sore back and “eat bland food” the rest of the day. Those instructions, and the allegations that the on-call obstetrician failed to order follow-up testing, are substantial enough to allow the mother to bring punitive damages claims against the doctor and the OBGYN practice, a judge has ruled.
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By Ian Lopez | August 18, 2017
The technology behind bitcoin can be utilized for a variety of legal tasks.
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By Monika Gonzalez Mesa | August 18, 2017
The recent violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has raised the national consciousness about racism in the U.S., prompting many business leaders to respond and some to recall Martin Niemoller's famous quote about the importance of speaking out for others.
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