Welcome to another edition of our Litigation Leaders series, featuring the litigation practice leaders at some of the biggest and most innovative law firms in the country.  Meet Adam Siegel, the U.S. co-head of litigation at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and the co-head of the firm’s global investigations practice. Siegel, who…

Partner pay spreads continue to expand in Big Law. But not every firm is stretching the gap between its highest- and lowest-paid equity partners. The firms with the lowest equity partner pay ratios have mostly kept the distance short for the last couple of years, at roughly 4-to-1 or less,…

Jackson Walker and Kirkland & Ellis, alongside former bankruptcy court judge David R. Jones, won a dismissal in a case that alleged they conspired to hide Jones’ relationship with bankruptcy attorney Elizabeth Freeman in order to obtain favorable verdicts. Alia Moses, chief district judge of the U.S. District Court for…

Federal Judge Awards $1M to Plaintiff’s Counsel Following No Payment Shareholder Derivative Settlement | National Law Journal Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2024/08/16/federal-judge-awards-1m-to-plaintiffs-counsel-following-a-no-payment-shareholder-derivative-settlement-398-139809/ (Credit: Travis/Adobe Stock) The plaintiff noted the substantial benefits of the reforms, which included the creation of a new audit committee and an independent director position to sit on…

A federal district court in Miami ruled on Friday that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O’Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a “seller” of these unregistered securities. Adam Moskowitz, the managing partner…

A week ago, a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment charging three executives of Smartmatic election voting machine and service provider company and a former Chairman of the Commission on Elections of the Republic of the Philippines.  They are charged in an alleged bribery…