Baseball’s Orioles Land New Legal Chief Ahead of Spring Training
Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles announced Tuesday their hire of Kamaal Jones as the team’s new chief legal officer and general counsel.
YouTube personality “MrBeast” Jimmy Donaldson and a group of investors tapped Brad Bondi, the brother of President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Justice Department, for legal advice on their bid to buy TikTok.
King & Spalding merged with Saudi Arabian firm Abdulaziz H. Al Fahad & Partners Lawyers (Al Fahad & Partners) in Riyadh, creating a combined firm with a majority of Saudi Arabian fee-earners.
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Former Akin Gump counsel Stanley Woodward, who is working with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, is dissolving the Washington law firm he co-founded.
Kirkland & Ellis was the busiest law firm for corporate transactions last year, advising on more than $427 billion in global mergers and acquisitions and surpassing rivals like Latham & Watkins, Skadden Arps, and Freshfields. On this episode of On The Merits, we speaks with two of the M&A partners responsible for Kirkland & Ellis’s big year.
Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles announced Tuesday their hire of Kamaal Jones as the team’s new chief legal officer and general counsel.
Kirkland & Ellis announced a new Philadelphia office to house trial lawyer Allison Brown, who joins the firm from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
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King & Spalding merged with Saudi Arabian firm Abdulaziz H. Al Fahad & Partners Lawyers (Al Fahad & Partners) in Riyadh, creating a combined firm with a majority of Saudi Arabian fee-earners.
Coke Morgan Stewart was sworn in as the Commerce Department’s deputy undersecretary for intellectual property and the deputy director of the US Patent and Trademark Office on Monday shortly after President Donald Trump took office.
YouTube personality “MrBeast” Jimmy Donaldson and a group of investors tapped Brad Bondi, the brother of President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Justice Department, for legal advice on their bid to buy TikTok.
Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
Mass tort litigation is thriving, fueled by aggressive digital advertising and litigation finance. These high-stakes cases promise huge paydays for lawyers and funders, transforming mass torts into a lucrative industry.
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The Federal Reserve and one of its regional banks are attempting to seal off the banking system from cryptocurrencies in the absence of a federal framework to regulate digital assets, counsel for a crypto-focused bank told a federal appeals court.
First the Trump memecoin, now the ETF.
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Decorrelation, NDAs, startup accounting, Vanguard taxes, DCG, AML, cash sweeps, etc., plus the Trumpcoin.
The SEC’s acting chairman, Mark Uyeda, launched a crypto task force “dedicated to developing a comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for crypto assets”.
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