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New York Law Journal

'Move over, please?' Law Firms Get a Seat at the Litigation Finance Table

James Blick and Erika Levin write: Whatever you may think about litigation finance, funders are out there and they are finding good quality, high-value cases in which to invest and charging big returns on the winners. But if litigation finance is booming, then why too aren't law firm profits, buoyed up by a rising tide of contingency fee revenue?
13 minute read

The American Lawyer

Herbert Smith Freehills Makes Triple China Partner Hire

The Anglo-Australian legal giant, which just saw a 12-lawyer team decamp in Paris, has picked up three projects partners from Pinsent Masons in Beijing and Shanghai.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

DLA Piper Picks Up Ex-Gibson Dunn, Kirkland Partners

The global legal giant has made a double partner hire for its leveraged finance practice in London and Hong Kong.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Visa, Discover Pare Deals With Extremist Groups After Rally

Companies behind the most popular U.S. credit cards said they are severing ties with extremist organizations that incite violence after they came under pressure to stop providing ways for white supremacists groups to raise funds.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Hogan Lovells Hollers at HayBoo for Latest Lateral Hire

Ricardo “Rick” Martinez, co-leader of the trade and export finance practice at Haynes and Boone, has joined Hogan Lovells as a partner in New York.
60 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Wilentz, McManimon Trade Places on NJ Bond Counsel List

Larger bond issues but fewer of them—that's the general takeaway from New Jersey's public finance market this year, which again included a significant number of refinancings of existing government debt. The list of active bond counsel included mostly familiar names, though the firms occupying the top two spots last year traded places.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Turnberry Turns To In-House Veteran to Advise on $250M Financing Deal

For a massive building and renovation project that paves its way to join the J.W. Marriott franchise next year, Turnberry Isle Resort and Club turned to the Bank of China for financing and to a former Turnberry in-house lawyer for outside legal advice.
15 minute read

The American Lawyer

Covington Adds 15 More Chadbourne Lawyers in Three Cities

A little more than a month after touting its hire of a four-partner project finance team from Chadbourne & Parke to open new offices in Dubai and Johannesburg, Covington & Burling has completed its acquisition of a team of associates and of counsel from the firm has Chadbourne prepares to combine with Norton Rose Fulbright.
24 minute read

Legaltech News

Three Corporate Legal Ops Paths, One Goal: Tackling E-Discovery Spend

At the ACC Legal Operations conference, legal operation managers at Bank of America, Groupon, and Abbott explained how they reined in their e-discovery budgets.
11 minute read

National Law Journal

Missouri High Court Voids Ferguson-Inspired Court Fine Cap

The Missouri Supreme Court has struck down a law — drafted based on city funding information revealed during the investigation into the 2014 Ferguson shooting of Michael Brown — that capped revenues raised from traffic fines at 12.5 percent for a group of municipalities in St. Louis County.
8 minute read

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