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Scammers Turn to WhatsApp in Latest Fraud Imitating Linklaters

The fraud attempt involved sending messages to would-be victims about business transactions requiring legal assistance.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

Big Law Firms Nab Top Federal Government Lawyers, Senior Comcast Attorney

Dechert, Jones Day, Wilmer, Gibson Dunn, Hogan Lovells and Arent Fox all added prominent D.C. lawyers in recent days, some of whom have chosen a new firm in their return to Big Law.
4 minute read

International Edition

Amazon Brings in International Firm For Africa Headquarters Launch

The near-$300 million 'mega' launch is expected to create hundreds of new jobs and provide a "springboard" to Cape Town's economy.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Novel Holding in New Jersey: Law Firm Awarded $10M After Withdrawing From Case

"The nature of and deterioration of the attorney/client relationship, exhibited throughout the hearing, justified Mr. Stone's good-faith belief that the representation could not ethically be continued," Judge Thomas Vena ruled.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Lawyer: Ruling on Website Accommodation Is About Separation of Powers—Not ADA

Attorney David Ferleger is planning to appeal the Eleventh Circuit ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court due to a conflicting ruling with a separate federal appellate court.
5 minute read

International Edition

Deloitte and Latham Win Spots on Refreshed Vodafone Panel

The winning firms have all signed up to diversity and inclusion and ESG commitments.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Denies Request To Compel Discovery of Slack Messages

As text and app messaging and online communication platforms such as Slack continue to supplement—and supplant—email communications in the workplace, parties and courts need to consider these technologies' impact on document preservation and production obligations. A recent decision provides clues on how courts may treat such electronically stored information. Christopher Boehning and Daniel J. Toal discuss the case in this edition of their Federal E-Discovery column.
9 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Works in Progress: The Plans for Bringing People Back

A majority of in-house leaders say their companies have surveyed employees to gauge their willingness to transition back to the office. The results are, predictably, mixed.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Alito Uses Grammar Lesson to Warn About Interpreting Statutes

"Appellate judges spend virtually every working hour speaking, listening to, reading, or writing English prose. Statutes are written in English prose, and interpretation is not a technical exercise to be carried out by mechanically applying a set of arcane rules," Alito wrote in a concurrence in the case Facebook Inc. v. Duguid, which confronted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Facing the Horror: How Asian American GC Helps Her Team Discuss Atlanta Shootings

"How many in the community, myself included, have had to have difficult conversations with our parents, about their safety and strategies, to make sure they're as safe as possible?" said Lynn Whitcher, GC at San Diego-based tech and telecom firm MD7.
8 minute read

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