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Global Law Firm Baker McKenzie Announces 80 Partnership Promotions
June 29th, 2017
Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie is pleased to announce the election of 80 new partners. This latest investment in the Firm’s expertise grows the total number of partners worldwide to nearly 1,600. Over 400 of these are women ...
International Law Firm is set to break into Asia
June 22nd, 2017
DWF LLP, an international law firm headquartered in Manchester, UK, is set to break into Asia for the first time by opening a Singapore office, picking up a four-lawyer team which left Eversheds Sutherland in the city earlier this ...
Legal Analytics platform expands into commercial law
June 21st, 2017
Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today announced the expansion of its award-winning Legal Analytics® platform into commercial law, the largest of all federal practice areas, and Lex Machina’s most ambitious expansion to date. The new commercial module represents the ...
Global law firm combines with a Boston-based litigation investigations firm
June 16th, 2017
Hogan Lovells combines with Collora, adding Boston office Strategically bolstering the firm’s life sciences capabilities throughout the Northeastern U.S. and globally Global law firm Hogan Lovells announced today that it will combine with Collora, a Boston-based litigation/investigations firm with ...
Volkswagen faces biggest legal action; A Pan-European lawsuit seeks billions refunds
June 14th, 2017
Around 220,000 car drivers in the Netherlands, England and Wales joined forces on Tuesday in what could become a pan-European lawsuit against German carmaker Volkswagen seeking compensation over its “dieselgate” emissions scandal. UK law firm Harcus Sinclair and Dutch Foundation ...
Toshiba facing fresh lawsuit from another group of foreign investors
June 14th, 2017
Japanese electronics giant Toshiba says it is facing a fresh lawsuit from another group of foreign investors seeking damages following its $1.2bn accounting scandal. The company says it has now been served with 26 complaints in total, demanding nearly ...
Deutsche Bank will pay $170 million to settle an investor lawsuit about Euribor
June 13th, 2017
Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) will pay $170 million to settle an investor lawsuit claiming it conspired with other banks to manipulate the benchmark European Interbank Offered Rate and related derivatives. A preliminary settlement was filed on Monday with the ...
International law firm announces plans to open a new international office
June 12th, 2017
The new office is the fourth international the International legal firm opens in less than 18 months. International law firm Pinsent Masons today announces plans to open in Dublin in a move which will see the firm open its ...
Uber fires over 20 employees after law firm probe
June 9th, 2017
Uber fires more than 20 employees after a law firm probe at the company into a number of complaints including sexual harassment, bullying, discrimination – both those in management and in lower level positions. Legal firm Perkins Coie was retained ...
International law firm acquires a market-leading Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) consulting company
June 7th, 2017
International law firm Pinsent Masons has announced its acquisition of Brook Graham, a market-leading Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) consulting company for an undisclosed fee. The acquisition will enable Brook Graham, which specialises in the strategic management of D&I in ...
