Financial services and investment firms need a dramatic transformation to thrive in an economy of multiple threats and new opportunities, but they too often underutilize their in-house legal teams as they seek to innovate. That’s a takeaway from a study by Mayer Brown based on a survey of 635 business…

There are 208 law firms listed below, most of them ranked in the Am Law 200. The firms are ordered by diversity score, which takes into account percentages of minority attorneys overall, as well as in partner and leadership ranks. Collectively among the below firms, minority attorneys comprised 22.4% of lawyers and…

Courts don’t stall their dockets when we go away for a week. So, in fairness to litigation teams whose wins land while we’re out, we’ve recently made a habit of writing a backward-looking “Litigator of the (Past) Week” column when we get back. One of those is in the works…

A trio of corporate law firms have secured roles on private equity giant Advent International’s €3.9 billion sale of German software-as-a-service company Aareon, amid a continued uptick in transactional activity. Kirkland & Ellis, Weil, Gotshal & Manges and CMS are acting as lead advisors on the acquisition by TPG and Canada-based pension fund CDPQ,…

The pace of growth slowed for representation of diverse attorneys in 2023, but every underrepresented group still made gains. After several years of above-average growth in the number of lawyers from underrepresented groups in Big Law, 2023 saw more subdued progress, although diversity gains were consistent from associates to partners…

Former commissioners of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission say the agency should take a more thoughtful and collaborative regulatory approach toward artificial intelligence than it did with cryptocurrency, a technology critics say is stifled by “regulating by enforcement.” “I think when crypto rolled out there was so much fraud that…