Law firm mergers continued to accelerate during the second quarter and are expected to keep escalating through the second half of the year and into 2025, a legal industry consultancy said Monday. A memo from Fairfax Associates tallied nine completed law firm combinations during Q2, including the long-awaited union between…

Greene Broillet & Wheeler clinched a $6.1 million win on behalf of whistleblowers against the Regents of the University of California, UC’s governing body, on June 27. The suit, originally filed in November 2021, consolidated two separate whistleblower retaliation complaints brought by Dr. Jeannie Lochhead and Dr. Michele Nelson, both former faculty members…

Singapore’s financial watchdog issued a warning late in late June that the country’s banking sector, including wealth management, poses the highest risk of money laundering to the country. Regulators had already been clamping down and reevaluating its new entrants of family offices following a corruption scandal that broke last year.…

Crowell & Moring and the Anti-Defamation League filed a lawsuit on Monday on behalf of more than 125 plaintiffs, alleging that Iran, Syria and North Korea provided material support to Hamas and enabled the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel. The suit, filed in Washington, D.C., federal court, is seeking financial…

This column discusses recent noteworthy decisions of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. This installment explores two recent decisions by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn evaluating a constitutional challenge to recent amendments to New York’s Emergency Tenant Protection Act (ETPA), N.Y. Unconsol.…

The fastest-growing Am Law 200 firm by revenue over the last half-decade isn’t necessarily who you’d expect. Spencer Fane, once a regional firm mostly known in the Midwest, has leapfrogged 21 spots in the Am Law 200 rankings in the last two years to No. 142 this year, generating $266.8…