Kirkland Talks Deal With Trump White House, Looks to Avoid Order
The wealthiest law firm in the world is in talks with the Trump administration on a deal designed to avert an executive order like those aimed at some of its competitors.
Few large law firms joined an amicus brief backing Perkins Coie in its lawsuit against President Donald Trump over an executive order targeting the firm.
Partners at Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin have approved a plan to merge the two law firms in the latest industry tie-up.
A Florida defense lawyer found guilty of extorting $60,000 from a client whom he was representing in a criminal matter won an Eleventh Circuit ruling Friday overturning his conviction.
Davidson Kempner Capital Management was identified as the funder behind patent cases against Amazon’s Audible Inc. last month, the first time the $35 billion hedge fund was publicly outed as a player in litigation finance.
Jackson Walker LLP settled with Basic Energy Services Inc.'s liquidation trustee in the first of a series of deals related to the law firm’s failure to disclose the romance between a onetime partner and a prominent judge.
The wealthiest law firm in the world is in talks with the Trump administration on a deal designed to avert an executive order like those aimed at some of its competitors.
Judge J. Michelle Childs of the Washington appeals court said she received an unsolicited Domino’s pizza delivered to her home, as Donald Trump and his allies have publicly targeted federal judges who have ruled against the administration’s actions.
Jackson Walker LLP settled with Basic Energy Services Inc.'s liquidation trustee in the first of a series of deals related to the law firm’s failure to disclose the romance between a onetime partner and a prominent judge.
A Florida defense lawyer found guilty of extorting $60,000 from a client whom he was representing in a criminal matter won an Eleventh Circuit ruling Friday overturning his conviction.
Few large law firms joined an amicus brief backing Perkins Coie in its lawsuit against President Donald Trump over an executive order targeting the firm.
PAUL ATKINS, who is a Senate confirmation away from becoming the Trump administration’s top Wall Street regulator, will be surrounded by potential conflicts arising from his years spent advising the same companies the US Securities and Exchange Commission regulates, Ben Miller reports.
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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.
On May 28, 2012, Dewey & LeBoeuf, the product of a merger between two storied New York law firms, filed for bankruptcy. For the first time, Dewey's former chair Steven Davis opens up about the years, months, and weeks leading to his firm's collapse, the decisions he made and, looking back, whether he would have done anything differently.
Stablecoin issuers and exchanges got a boost Friday from the Securities and Exchange Commission after the agency’s staff determined that the assets, generally, aren’t securities.
Few large law firms joined an amicus brief backing Perkins Coie in its lawsuit against President Donald Trump over an executive order targeting the firm.
FTX Trading Ltd. expunged close to 400,000 creditor claims of customers who failed to timely commence the process to verify their identities.
Norway is moving to implement new tax reporting rules for digital platforms and actors in the crypto space, under a proposal approved Friday by the government.
Crypto exchange OKX was fined by Maltese authorities for breaching the island nation’s anti-money laundering rules, the latest in a string of regulatory setbacks for the platform.
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