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The legal chief of one of the music industry’s biggest performance rights organizations pushed back on a US Copyright Office inquiry into how royalties are distributed to songwriters and music publishers.
A Houston bankruptcy court’s process to decide whether Jackson Walker LLP must return millions in fees for failing to disclose an ex-partner’s romance with a prominent judge is “inefficient” and should be moved to a federal district court, a Justice Department attorney said.
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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.
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