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The move marks the first time partner appointments have been made outside of Dublin and London and comes as the firm has been expanding its international presence.

A nondisclosure agreement is in the spotlight after former Paul Weiss lawyer Anna Christie had appealed a tribunal's decision stopping her from calling another woman as a witness.

The private equity partner exits are a rare departure from Kirkland's London base.

Legacy Bryan Cave leadership in Germany are leaving to start Addleshaws first continental European office.

Microsoft deputy general counsel Julie Brill spoke with European Data Protection Board chairwoman Andrea Jelinek about lessons learned from the GDPR one year in and what comes next at an IAPP Global Privacy Summit session Friday.

The firm is piloting a scheme to move away from basing lawyer compensation on the metric.

U.S. District Judge John Walter wrote that he had "no alternative but to apply Spanish law and cannot force the Kingdom of Spain or TBC to comply with its moral commitments."

Sharis Pozen is a former Skadden partner.

In a lawsuit that alleges fee churning, redundant charges and failure to provide billing statements against the three lawyers making up the firm Joshua L. Dratel, P.C., an Appellate Division, First Department panel ruled on Thursday that plaintiff Debra Cascardo's excessive legal fees claim should go forward and not be dismissed.

The panel majority held that the Child Welfare Act contained clear language that allowed for federal suit over payments to foster families, creating a 3-1 circuit split over the issue.

The plaintiffs firm argues that a New York appellate decision left the door open for it to recover more than $13 million from its insurer after a fire ripped through its office.

The largest New York firms grew the percentage of newly promoted partners who are women to a new high of 36 percent.

Because work expectations at firms run so high, the distinction between pursuing excellence and expecting perfection (i.e., zero mistakes) can get blurry. Blurring this distinction, however, can erode a firm's morale and increase its exposure to liability.

In a time when corporate demand for outside legal counsel is critically low, firms that cling fervently to outdated models of service delivery are bound to lag behind. In contrast, firms that are bold enough to buck tradition are much more likely to flourish.

A growing number of Big Law firm partners are choosing to continue working well into their 60s and beyond—even if doing so requires a lateral move. And while a popular old tale holds that investing in senior laterals is an overly risky and expensive growth strategy, we beg to differ.

An interesting intersection between law firms and corporate legal departments continues to evolve. Legal technology plays a key role in “directing traffic at this intersection, serving the needs of both law firms and corporate legal departments.

In his Estate Planning and Philanthropy column, Conrad Teitell discusses various provisions of the Ways and Means Committee's bill.

Statutory interest rates in New York are fixed at nominal amounts, usually according to the monetary environment in which the statutes were enacted (or last amended). Given the drastic changes in monetary policy, these statutory rates are anachronisms in today's low interest world.

Mike France, a former Big Law attorney-turned-partner at advisory firm Brunswick Group, talks about the fight—yes, fight—that he says law firms need to prepare for when reporters come calling.

If lawyers only knew of the shift in what is expected of them, they might feel a sense of relief which, in itself, could improve their physical and mental health even before adjusting their approach to practice.