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By Charles Toutant | April 18, 2017
Lawyers who advise clients on "smart contracts" drawing on blockchain technology say some potential adopters liken them to a "magic pill" that will provide a cure to all their contract-related headaches. But as 'smart contracts' become more common in more sectors of the economy, lawyers will need to increase their technical know-how and to renew their focus on counseling clients instead of ministerial work, according to specialists in this fast-evolving field.
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By Roy Strom | April 18, 2017
Anton “Tony” Valukas, a longtime partner and leader of Jenner & Block, will step down as chairman at month's end. Valukas, one of The American Lawyer's Lifetime Achievers, will not be replaced in the honorary role but remain a senior partner at the Chicago-based Am Law 100 firm.
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By Jonathan Ringel | April 18, 2017
The Georgia Legal Food Frenzy appears a full day ahead of last year's pace, with funds raised for the Atlanta Community Food Bank reaching $36,000, or…
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By SUE REISINGER | April 18, 2017
The 2017 Proxy Monitor Report sponsored by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a domestic policy think tank, finds that these are the top issues to watch this 2017 proxy season.
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By Lizzy McLellan | April 18, 2017
Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti has shed its patent prosecution group, which is relocating to Pittsburgh-based Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl.
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By Scott Flaherty | April 18, 2017
New York litigation boutique Levine Lee has hired Tracy Lee Dayton, a former federal prosecutor in Connecticut and Brooklyn, as the firm's sixth partner.
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By Meghan Tribe | April 18, 2017
Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, a suburban Washington, D.C.-based IP firm, has hired partner Alexander Hadjis from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, which he joined in early 2014 from Morrison & Foerster. Hadjis headed Cadwalader's International Trade Commission group and co-chaired the firm's technology industry practice.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | April 18, 2017
A gay man has won legal recognition of his common-law marriage to his partner, who died two months before the U.S. Supreme Court expanded the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples.
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By Anna Zhang | April 18, 2017
Patrick Sinclair is the latest former federal prosecutor to wind up in the Hong Kong office of a U.S. firm.
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By David Gialanella | April 18, 2017
Pashman Stein Walder Hayden has opened its fourth office, in downtown Red Bank, with a pair of laterals from Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper of Westfield: Joseph Colao Jr. joined as a partner and Tracy Julian as of counsel.
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