A former employee at Warner Bros. Discovery filed a 16-count complaint in federal court last week alleging civil rights violations against the global entertainment company by providing more work and lower pay to her compared with her younger, nonwhite, male colleagues. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for…

How many law firms do you recall published photos of their offices pre-pandemic? It just wasn’t the done thing. It was indiscreet, uncouth, even, for secretive law firms to reveal too much about where it was they did their secretive work. But, nowadays, they don’t hold back. They want you…

Weil Gotshal & Manges’ Hong Kong managing partner and co-head of its Asia private equity practice, Tim Gardner, has left the firm to join Asian private equity investment firm PAG as its general counsel. “It has been a privilege to co-head the Weil, Gotshal & Manges Asia private equity team…

Clifford Chance has elevated 29 lawyers to partnership in its latest promotions round. The newly-promoted cohort spans the firm’s U.K., European, U.S., Asia, Australia and Middle East offices. Clifford Chance will have a total of 661 partners, once this year’s promotions take effect on 1 May, 2024.

A new proposed law that would change how lawyers in the Canadian province of British Columbia are regulated is drawing fire from the current lawyer regulator and other groups that say it is “seriously flawed” and will undermine lawyers’ independence from government. The government of British Columbia recently introduced a…

Ashurst has hired international trade specialist Claus Zimmermann as a partner in Brussels to lead the firm’s European Union and international trade litigation, policy and regulatory practice.  Zimmermann, who begins at Ashurst on May 1 from Germany-headquartered Noerr, is bringing along an associate and a senior regulatory affairs adviser. Another…