Eleven years after the merger between Houston’s Fulbright & Jaworski and London’s Norton Rose, Norton Rose Fulbright is doing more with less. Last year, the Swiss verein posted its highest gross revenue and its lowest FTE attorney head count since the trans-Atlantic merger, when the firm employed 3,500 attorneys and earned…

From sugar prices to the cost of replacement tires to Apple’s business practices, antitrust class actions against numerous industries skyrocketed last month, according to data from Law.com Radar. In March, according to that data, there were 42 such lawsuits, 71% higher than the average monthly rate over the previous 12…

Latham & Watkins is the latest Am Law 50 law firm to add corporate partner talent from a rival this year, reeling in two partners from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Latham on Monday said it added Tracey Zaccone and Justin Rosenberg, partners in its hybrid capital and mergers and acquisitions practice and…

We’re Entering the Golden Age of Legal Technology | Legaltech News Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2024/04/15/were-entering-the-golden-age-of-legal-technology/ Credit: S. Wilkins/ALM via DALL-E 3 image generator. COMMENTARY Technological capabilities—including the ability to automate workflows and leverage artificial intelligence to obtain greater insight into data—are being introduced to the legal market faster than ever.…

In another past week of big deals, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer led Johnson & Johnson’s $13.1 billion acquisition of Shockwave Medical (represented by Fenwick & West) while Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett worked with Blackstone Real Estate Partners X in its $10 billion buy of Apartment Income REIT Corp (which itself was…

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has agreed to pay $8 million to settle claims with members of a class action who said their personal information was compromised in a data breach that affected more than 600,000 people, according to settlement documents filed in federal court last week. The settlement, coming after eight…