By James Booth | July 6, 2017
The U.K. firm's Asia Pacific revenue rose 33 percent from last year, while firmwide growth reached 14 percent.
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By Scott Flaherty | July 6, 2017
A Cayman Islands' soccer federation official and former longtime associate at offshore law firm Maples and Calder was arrested late last week in connection…
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By Vivia Chen, The Careerist | July 6, 2017
Even in the face of harassment, rumors and other inconveniences, female lawyers are forging ahead.
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By Rebecca Cohen | July 6, 2017
Carolyn Kubota, a litigator and former member of the policy committee at O'Melveny & Myers, has joined Covington & Burling's new office in Los Angeles.
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By Malcolm J. Ingram | July 5, 2017
No matter how much success you experience in your legal career, inevitably at some point you will encounter a setback and make mistakes. Whether the setback is not passing the bar exam in your law firm's jurisdiction, missing a key argument in a brief, or blowing a litigation deadline, these mistakes don't have to define your legal career. A setback is the perfect opportunity to take a moment and reflect on how the setback occurred and what you can do to catapult your career forward. As I said in my previous article "Taking Control of Your Legal Career as a First-Year Associate," published April 5 in The Legal, failure precedes success and becoming a great lawyer is a marathon, not a sprint. By using the four steps listed below, young attorneys can turn common mistakes and setbacks into opportunities for growth and branding.
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By Anthony S. Volpe and Bradley M. Brown | July 5, 2017
Throughout time industries have developed techniques and processes that are believed to be essential elements that contributed to the company's success. For almost as long, companies have sought and devised ways to protect those techniques and processes that constituted the company's intellectual property. Many companies turned to federal patent protection, others chose to treat the information as trade secrets and others chose to use contractual obligations to protect their intellectual property.
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By Rose Walker | July 5, 2017
The global legal giant has started a consulting business for its financial services clients in the U.K. after hiring Steve Murphy from his role as a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 5, 2017
Attorney Adrian Cousens was nominated to join the Forks Business Association board of directors, a business and commerce organization associated with the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce.
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By Meghan Tribe | July 5, 2017
Cross-border combinations continued to propel law firm merger activity through the second quarter of 2017 as U.S. firms continue to look outside the domestic marketplace for growth opportunities, according to reports released Wednesday by legal consultancies Altman Weil Inc. and Fairfax Associates.
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By Meghan Tribe | July 5, 2017
Salil Gandhi, of counsel at Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, is poised to join Goodwin Procter's technology companies group as a partner in New York as the latter looks to capitalize on a growing market for tech clients in the Big Apple.
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