Linklaters has topped legal advisor rankings for announced U.K. M&A deals in the first half of 2024, amid a rebounding global deal market. The firm unseated Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in the top spot, having had an involvement in 31 announced deals which were valued at $34.5 billion. Rival firms Slaughter & May and Freshfields,…

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Goodwin Procter, Milbank and Ogletree Deakins have all hired partners in Washington, D.C., this week, with the laterals joining from the government, other firms and in-house legal departments. The newest partners are joining firms’ financial services, litigation, white-collar and employment benches in the district.

A federal judge in Pennsylvania granted FedEx’s motion to compel arbitration in a dispute with an independent service provider in Florida, concluding the plaintiff didn’t qualify as a “transportation worker” under the exemption under Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act. In a July 5 opinion, U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer of the Western…

With the aggressive pace of technological change and the onslaught of news regarding data breaches, cyberattacks and technological threats to privacy and security, it is easy to assume these are fundamentally new threats. The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats…

Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Monteleoni of the Southern District of New York began his closing argument Monday in the bribery and extortion trial of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, by reminding jurors that the FBI found gold bars and envelopes of cash stashed all around the New Jersey home…

The Federal Trade Commission’s rule banning employers from imposing noncompete agreements on their workers is unlikely to prevail in litigation, competition and intellectual property experts said following a Texas federal judge’s decision last week preliminarily enjoining the regulation’s implementation. “I think that the odds of the FTC rule ever becoming…