While most law firms in the Am Law 100 have created and expanded a nonequity partnership tier, several law firms in the Second Hundred are retaining the single-tier model, as least for now. A range of firms such as FisherBroyles, Cleveland-based Tucker Ellis, New Orleans-based Phelps Dunbar and Los Angeles-based Irell &…

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Baker McKenzie’s Australian offices have increased revenue and profit over the past two years—even as partner numbers have declined, according to Australian national managing partner Anne-Marie Allgrove. The firm has 75 partners in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, down from around 87 at the start of last year. But Allgrove said…

Businesses face a daunting challenge navigating regulatory compliance across multiple African countries but Afriwise, an Africa-focused legal intelligence platform, is harnessing the power of AI to offer innovative solutions. Afriwise, the African legal platform that acquired AI-based legal software developer Pythagoria in 2023, is deploying AI and their own legal…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected a Harvard Law School graduate’s claims that the New York State Board of Law Examiners wrongly denied test-taking accommodations during the bar exam, affirming the board’s sovereign immunity protections. In a July 19 opinion, authored by Second Circuit Judge William J. Nardini, the…

Los Angeles firm Affeld England & Johnson secured $138 million in damages for a crypto mining entrepreneur against Las Vegas digital asset tech company Marathon Digital Holdings in a breach-of-contract suit. The unanimous jury verdict was released Thursday following a two-week trial in federal court. Plaintiff Michael Ho, formerly a co-founder and CEO…