London’s largest law firms are ramping up salaries for newly-qualified lawyers with pay packets soaring by up to 20% and no end to the talent wars in sight. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher are leading the pack with £180,000 offers for so-called ‘NQs’, typically 20-something…

Attorneys have been closely watching the cryptocurrency market plummet on Sunday and into Monday as its global market cap sustained an over 9% drop within the last 24 hours. “If history is any indication, substantial dips in the value of cryptocurrencies are likely to lead to more litigation,” said Helen…

Big Law has been hit with a wave of lawsuits in recent months, with discrimination and compensation claims from both current and former employees front and center. Am Law 200 firms such as Duane Morris, Foley Hoag, Armstrong Teasdale and Thompson Hine have found themselves at the center of disputes, with…

A U.S. bankruptcy Judge has formally terminated Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy proceeding, following a period of legal uncertainty prompted by assertions from the former U.S. attorney that he was unable to cover the administrative costs associated with dismissal. The move, announced Friday, allows litigation across the country to resume against the…

Latham & Watkins is advising Australian gas and oil producer Woodside Energy on its $2.35 billion purchase of OCI Clean Ammonia Holding and its low-carbon ammonia project under construction in Texas. OCI is advised by Vinson & Elkins and A&O Shearman

Despite a division in one of the two panels of judges to reinstate religious discrimination lawsuits against a Wisconsin hospital system, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit aligned with its sister court’s decisions over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. In two separate panels, Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Y. Scudder authored the…