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Several Firms Dip Into London's Frenetic Hiring Market This Week
Freshfields, A&O Shearman and Wilkie are among the firms shedding partners as the lateral hiring market stays hot.
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Mishcon Admits Breach of Duty But Denies Claimant Losses in £1.4M Negligence Lawsuit
The firm says its failure to identify defective statutory notices amounted to a breach of duty but argues that the tenants may have acquired the disputed property rights even if the process had been handled correctly.
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Weil’s Demise Puts Decades of LatAm Relationships in Play
Weil, Gotshal & Manges' planned dissolution will scatter its lawyers across rivals, leaving Latin American firms to hope that the decades-old relationships underpinning their cross-border work will endure beyond the firm's name.
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Legal Marketing Community Vows Support as Weil Staffers Face Uncertain Future
Two Weil staff members told Law.com that the firm hadn't provided any additional information as of Monday morning to its professional staff about the dissolution beyond what was initially given during a company town hall in the middle of last week.
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Kroll Adds Restructuring Partner From Freshfields in Hong Kong
Former Ropes & Gray Hong Kong managing partner Daniel Anderson joins Kroll, becoming the eighth partner to leave Freshfields' Asia practice in less than 12 months.
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Australia's Data Centre Rollout Creates More Work for Lawyers
The buildout of data centres is creating demand for lawyers in multiple practice areas, especially financing, M&A, corporate, regulatory, real estate, planning, projects, energy and construction, partners say.
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Deal Watch: Weil's Fall Proves Elite M&A Work Makes Some Law Firms Targets for Poaching
Weil's top-performing partners in M&A and private equity were frequent targets of poaching, which partly led to its downfall.
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Freshfields, Haiwen Advise Chinese AI Supplier on $1.3B Hong Kong IPO
A&O Shearman and King & Wood also advised on the offering, one of Hong Kong's largest this year.
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Privilege Row Reveals Hogan Lovells’ UK Tax Dispute
A dispute over the confidentiality of internal documents has exposed an HMRC investigation into whether Hogan Lovells' U.K. partnership can deduct payments made to its U.S. entity between 2014 and 2024.
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Dechert Taps Another White & Case Partner to Expand in Dubai
Dechert is strengthening its M&A offering in the Gulf, as activity grows despite regional tensions.
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India's JSA Rebrands After Almost Doubling in Size, With Revenue Exceeding $100 Million
The Indian law firm is marking its 35th anniversary with a new identity as it expands its specialist practices, invests in AI and plans further domestic growth.
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The Anatomy of a Large Law Dissolution: What Could Come Next?
Step one is to appease creditors while avoiding bankruptcy, according to industry observers.
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Latest AIM Rankings Reshape the Legal Adviser Landscape
Hill Dickinson has held on to the number-one position in the AIM adviser rankings for a second consecutive quarter.
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Weil Has Collapsed. Maybe We All Should Be Afraid
It would be easy to single out Weil’s mistakes and treat its collapse as an exceptional event. But that ignores the larger story—one that addresses the fragility of an industry undergoing major change—with compensation, lateral hiring, artificial intelligence, and other factors disrupting a business model that has lasted for 200 years, The Global Lawyer writes.
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Milbank Rebuilds Seoul Office With Linklaters Managing Partner
Joo Hee Lee's move comes after the departure of Milbank's former Seoul managing partner David Cho to Dechert, which left the U.S. firm's Korea office with just two lawyers. Her exit also leaves Linklaters with one partner in Seoul.
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