Wake Up Call: First Female Dean at Berkeley Law Dies at 82

• Herma Hill Kay, the University of California at Berkeley law school’s first female dean, died June 10 in San Francisco at age 82. ( New York Times )

• Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright and the smaller New York-based law firm Chadbourne & Parke have merged, and Chadbourne’s 115-year run as a stand-alone law firm is history. The tie-up creates a new firm named Norton Rose Fulbright, with 4,000 lawyers in 59 offices in 33 countries and an estimated $2 billion in revenue. ( BLB ) The plaintiffs attorney in a $100 million sex discrimination and pay inequity lawsuit against Chadbourne said he ...