The funder is also inching closer to realizing a windfall estimated at $5 billion from a long-running investment in a case against Argentina, but the country has filed an emergency appeal of a court order compelling it to turn over assets.

       

“When financial strategy is integrated with legal foresight, organizations are better positioned to mitigate risk, seize strategic opportunities and drive sustainable growth, said Conrad Woody, managing partner of Odgers in Washington, D.C.

       

A Brussels-based lawyer has made an unusual career move and is applying his Big Law skills to big world problems.

       

The boutique will take on a broad range of work, and "presumes that this will include being adverse to the [Trump] administration," said a spokesperson.

       

“We take no position on the wisdom or folly of West Virginia's abortion law," Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote for the 2-1 majority. "As Dobbs makes clear, that judgment belongs with the people and their elected representatives."        

John A. Sarcone III says he will serve an indefinite stint as acting U.S. attorney, after his interim appointment ended Monday. The board of Northern District of New York judges declined to appoint Sarcone to the post on a permanent basis.

       

Judge Joshua Roberts of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on July 11 denied a motion from Syngenta Crop Protection LLC and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. that challenged the plaintiffs' choice of forum in Philadelphia paraquat cases with plaintiffs who are not Pennsylvania residents. In his ruling, Roberts held that the defendants' arguments “utterly fail[ed] to establish convincing justification for transferring the cases.        

"My advice would be to focus on doing the hard work, always put your clients first, and never take shortcuts. Leadership is earned through dedication, empathy, and a commitment to justice to your clients."

       

"If you think you've learned it all and you're going to open up the playbook and just impose it on the company, that's not going to work," said 69-year-old Brad Lerman, who came out of retirement in April 2023 to become chief legal officer of Starbucks.

       

       

The data reflects the ongoing dominance of transatlantic legal powerhouses in cross-border private equity transactions, as U.S. sponsors continue to target European assets.

       

Law firms are asking lateral partner candidates much more probing questions about their client lists, originations, and portability and profitability of practice, observers say.

       

The court's decision to grant the preliminary injunction regarding the noncompete comes at a time when the FTC has attempted to ban noncompetes, with numerous states having already done so.

       

The ruling represents additional evidence of the Roberts Court's inexorable move towards a unitary theory of the executive branch, which posits that the president should be able to control the exercise of all executive power, one legal observer said.

       

Provable, the infrastructure firm supporting the privacy-centric blockchain platform Aleo, announced Tuesday that Damien G. Scott has joined as general counsel, as the company pushes to bring programmable, privacy-preserving technologies into the regulatory mainstream.

       

Roughly two-thirds of 2021 graduates have changed jobs already, while 1in 5 made a career-intention shift during or immediately after their second year of law school.

       

"You're going to see an uptick of more plaintiffs' attorneys wanting to try and help a lot of survivors get their fair compensation ... when the venues are looking the other way," co-lead counsel said.

       

Robert Rosenberg was general counsel of Showtime from 2021 until 2023, when a restructuring by parent Paramount Global cost him his job.

       

"We've stopped them over and over again," Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said.

       

Swiss investor Partners Group restructures its stake in Techem, selling a 51% majority to its own infrastructure arm, in a deal that is likely to be Germany's largest private equity transaction of the year.