Hypothetical questions can help facilitate conversations on judgments about the perceived likelihood or potential consequences of an event or an action. They can also help reveal hidden or flawed assumptions. Supreme Court justices, for instance, often use hypothetical questions to test the outer boundaries of what the advocate is asking…

The Federal Trade Commission is asking a federal court to force MGM Resorts International to comply with its investigative demands regarding a crippling cyberattack in September that exposed the personal information of 1.5 million MGM guests and brought down the hotel and casino operator’s systems for more than a week.…

Law firms including Clifford Chance, Linklaters, A&O Shearman, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins and Paul, Weiss Rifkind and Gharton have been named in research as being among the worst offenders for doing fossil fuel related work. A report compiled by activist group Law Students for Climate…

This is the second part of a two-part series. For part one, click here. In the 2010s, Dentons firm leaders began approaching firms in markets largely ignored by Big Law with a pitch to join them in doing for “law and commerce what the transcontinental railroad did for transportation and…

How do you compete against an rival multiple times your size, with a far larger budget and seemingly limitless resources? For midsize firms, you get smarter about spending on your own business resources, with some opting to take advantage of a “fractional” C-Suite model balancing expense with, in some cases, Big…

A former Clifford Chance partner has been prohibited from accessing client money by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Bert De Maeyer was a long-term partner at Clifford Chance, based in the firm’s Brussels office. According to Companies House documents, he resigned from the firm in March 2023.