Christine Simmons
Journalist at https://t.co/vRNxIME29n and deputy bureau chief for @NYLawJournal, covering law firm trends, lawyers, and litigation. Reach me at [email protected]
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1 week ago |
law.com | Abigail Adcox |Christine Simmons
Internal tensions are boiling over at large law firms that have made deals with President Donald Trump—a group that increased by five on Friday—as attorney resignations become a growing consideration. By Friday, hundreds had signed onto an open letter, obtained by law.com, to firm leadership at A&O Shearman about its own impending deal with the president.
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1 week ago |
law.com | Christine Simmons |Abigail Adcox
In an announcement Friday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said that the four law firms settling with the agency through President Donald Trump's deals—Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; and A&O Shearman—have agreed to compliance monitoring, among other measures. The EEOC said the four firms have chosen "to voluntarily resolve matters with the EEOC, without admission of liability, to avoid an extended dispute."
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2 weeks ago |
law.com | Patrick Smith |Christine Simmons |Abigail Adcox
Several large law firms–including Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman and Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett, in addition to Kirkland & Ellis– are in deal talks with the Trump administration, sources say, and some firms are using the talks to resolve a probe by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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2 weeks ago |
law.com | Christine Simmons
Who Got The Work J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.
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2 weeks ago |
law.com | Christine Simmons |Andrew Maloney
Sidley Austin said Tuesday that Dave Perkins, who was co-head of the private equity group at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, has joined its M&A and private equity group in New York. Perkins advises private equity sponsors and other private capital investors and asset managers on their transactions, capital raising activities, and business and investment structures, Sidley said.
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Shearman & Sterling Lays Off Associates and Staff https://t.co/5peAuGBBWL via @AmericanLawyer @nycpatrickd
Orrick to Merge With Buckley, Nearly Doubling Its DC Footprint https://t.co/qX3rSuMei2 via @AmericanLawyer @jessie_yount
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