Lateral partner hires among Am Law 50 and Magic Circle firms in four major markets are up 9% through the first half of the year, recruiting firm Macrae found. Moves in New York and London, in particular, surged. Additionally, the number of partner moves in investment management, funds and white-collar…

Following a federal appellate ruling that college athletes can sue claiming they are owed wages, employment attorneys say lower courts will face a host of difficult legal questions as litigation over player compensation likely grows. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled for the first time on…

Following a federal appellate ruling that college athletes can sue claiming they are owed wages, employment attorneys say lower courts will face a host of difficult legal questions as litigation over player compensation likely grows. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled for the first time on…

Linklaters on Tuesday announced the arrival of two new senior advisors to the firm’s Hong Kong office–Oliver Zhong from Sidley Austin and Christine Xu from Clifford Chance–a move it hopes will boost its presence in the equity capital markets and ‘New Economy’ fields in Hong Kong as well as the…

The nation will be facing an overload of political news and rhetoric between now and the presidential election, but will immersion in today’s charged political environment change the dynamics of litigation? Jury experts and litigators say the runup to the presidential election is impacting jurors in some surprising ways.

Law firms are investigating potential lawsuits to come out of CloudStrike Holdings Inc.’s global tech outage, but there may be limits on who can recover damages. San Francisco’s Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Pittsburgh-based Lynch Carpenter are among the plaintiffs’ firms already announcing investigations of the July 19 outage,…