The 2024 Dealmakers of The Year | The American Lawyer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2024/03/20/the-2024-dealmakers-of-the-year/ Credit: Yingyaipumi, Manovector, m.mphoto, nikomsolftwaer/Adobo Stock PROFILE It was another challenging year in 2023 for dealmaking, but Big Law’s talented transactional lawyers brought expertise, creativity and profoundly hard work to bear. March 20, 2024 at 05:00…

A divided Georgia Court of Appeals panel, on a 2-1 vote, determined that EV charging station companies qualify as individual electric utility users. The majority opinion means they may choose their electricity provider under an exception in the state’s Territorial Electric Service Act. This is significant because normally users are…

A woman has sued two attorneys, an Am Law 100 firm and a prominent divorce litigation law firm, in West Palm Beach state court, after their alleged negligence in preparing a marital settlement agreement resulted in a $4.75 million out-of-pocket loss. Damien Prosser and Keith Meehan, partners at Morgan &…

Juan Martinez, the long-time chief executive of Australia’s largest independent law firm by headcount HWL Ebsworth, has died and a temporary leader has been appointed. Martinez had been with the firm for 36 years, 26 of them as managing partner and chief executive officer. 

A non-attorney judge in Lake Placid resigned amid a probe into whether he retaliated with bias and hostility toward a defense attorney who had filed complaints about him to New York’s judicial misconduct watchdog, the state agency said on Tuesday. Former North Elba Town Justice Alec Friedmann had been a judge since…

A Baker McKenzie partner sued the Internal Revenue Service on Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., to compel the federal agency into providing information about its increased efforts to crackdown on misconduct by wealthy partnerships and other business entities. The complaint, filed by Washington-based tax partner George Clarke, comes after Clarke…