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Mar 28, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Christine Schiffner |Greg Andrews |Trudy Knockless |Maria Dinzeo
Kevin Rhodes, 3M’s chief legal affairs officer, began 2023 by helping to spin off the health care business Solventum into a stand-alone public company, and in the second half he struck nearly $18 billion in settlements to resolve litigation stemming from defective combat earplugs and so-called forever chemicals.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Christine Schiffner |Trudy Knockless |Greg Andrews |Maria Dinzeo
Kevin Rhodes, 3M’s chief legal affairs officer, began 2023 by helping to spin off the health care business Solventum into a stand-alone public company, and in the second half he struck nearly $18 billion in settlements to resolve litigation stemming from defective combat earplugs and so-called forever chemicals. While that’s a gargantuan sum, 3M’s compensation committee makes clear in its newly filed proxy statement that it is pleased with his handiwork.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Christine Schiffner |Abigail Adcox |Cassandre Coyer |Dan Roe
Perkins Coie is shuttering its Shanghai office, where it employs one dually based partner, two patent consultants and one other lawyer. The firm also lists three other partners connected to its Shanghai office but all three are primarily based in the U.S. Want to continue reading?
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Alex Anteau |Christine Schiffner |Mason Lawlor
Mercedes-Benz Group was hit with a consumer class action last week in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia by owners and lessees of vehicles equipped with interior veneer wood trim, who they claim is defective and prone to cracking. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Cedra Mayfield |Justin Henry |Christine Schiffner |Jimmy Hoover
U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said Friday that there has been “a real shift” toward the Supreme Court’s emergency docket in recent years, acknowledging her office’s frequent participation in disputes about emergency applications and other requests for extraordinary relief.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Jessica Seah |Amanda O'Brien |Allison Dunn |Christine Schiffner
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer hit a new firm record last year in its financial performance, growing gross revenue by 9.7% to $1.139 billion in 2023, while its profits per equity partner rose nearly 15% to $1.610 million after falling to $1.403 million in 2022. Even as the firm’s full-time equivalent head count grew roughly 4% to 975 lawyers, Arnold & Porter’s revenue per lawyer was up 5.2% to $1.168 million.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Christine Schiffner |Steve Lash |Maydeen Merino |Brad Kutner
As Clifford Chance continues expanding its energy and infrastructure capabilities in the U.S., the firm has brought on Ty’Meka M. Reeves-Sobers and Marcia Hook as partners from Kirkland & Ellis, who will join the firm’s Houston and Washington, D.C., offices, respectively. Reeves-Sobers arrival comes just months after Clifford Chance launched its Houston office in June, marking the elite U.K. firm’s third U.S. office.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Keith Letourneau |Christine Schiffner |Amy Hanna Keeney |Louis Ursini
Ordinarily, over 36,000 merchant ships pass through the Suez and Panama Canals each year representing about 30% of the world’s merchant fleet tonnage. This year, both canals face extraordinary events beyond their control, which are affecting vessel transits and arrivals across the globe.
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Jan 4, 2024 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Keith Letourneau |Christine Schiffner |Amy Hanna Keeney |Louis Ursini
Ordinarily, over 36,000 merchant ships pass through the Suez and Panama Canals each year representing about 30% of the world’s merchant fleet tonnage. This year, both canals face extraordinary events beyond their control, which are affecting vessel transits and arrivals across the globe.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Dan Roe |Christine Schiffner |Colleen Murphy |Justin Henry
Scarinci Hollenbeck, the New Jersey and New York business law firm, will expand by roughly 25% in January as the firm merges with the 16-lawyer Warren Law Group of Midtown Manhattan. The merger is part of a broader growth plan for the firm, which aims to hit 75 to 100 attorneys in an effort to gain market share from Fortune 1,000 companies put off by recent Big Law rate hikes and salary increases. Want to continue reading?
