King & Wood Mallesons is advising Australian gas and petroleum giant Woodside on the sale of a $1.4 billion stake in its Scarborough gas project in Western Australia to JERA, Japan’s largest importer of natural gas. As part of the agreement, Jera has agreed to purchase six LNG shipments a…

While Big Law firms are hoping for a transactional bounce back in 2024, they’re also still building up their benches in litigation, as expectations for countercyclical work continue apace. Cooley and Orrick are among the latest to add high-profile litigators, recruiting from Am Law 100 rivals. Cooley announced Wednesday the…

Australian firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth is advising French building materials company  Saint-Gobain on its $3 billion takeover of Australian counterpart CSR. The Australian building materials company is advised by Herbert Smith Freehills and has agreed to Saint-Gobain’s $5.9 per share offer, which values the company at $2.8 billion.

Clifford Chance is rolling out a package of AI technologies across its near-7,000 workforce, following months of trials. The U.K.-headquartered firm, which partnered up with technology giants Microsoft, has created what it describes as a “holistic suite of AI-powered workplace solutions”, now available to all its people around the world.

A third class action trial began Tuesday in Oregon against electricity provider PacifiCorp over a series of wildfires that ravaged the state over Labor Day weekend in 2020. “You get to decide how to compensate the survivors of PacifiCorp’s fires,” Chicago-based Edelson partner Nicholas Rosinia told jurors in Portland in…

Wilson Issues Call for ‘Problem-Solving’ Mandate in New York Courts | New York Law Journal Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2024/02/27/wilson-issues-call-for-problem-solving-mandate-in-new-york-courts/ Sharing the stage with fellow judges and attorneys, a court officer and program participants, Chief Judge Rowan Wilson’s focused on courts’ need to arrive “at the best solution for each individual…