Updated: The lawyer-entrepreneur is a fairly regular story. TheStreet.com published anecdotes about several this week. But this one from London knocks the rest out cold.
Latham & Watkins has hired five partners from Italian firm Bonelli Erede Pappalardo. One of them will stay in Rome in the law firm’s first office there.
In an unusual example of Chinese company resorting to litigation to enforce its intellectual property abroad, a Beijing curd maker has won a trademark infringement suit against a German company.
Updated: A major police investigation reportedly has been launched in Britain after the government’s entire database concerning every child in the country for whom benefits have been paid was lost…
A charm offensive by the British bar has failed to win immediate permission from the Indian government for foreign lawyers to practice in what many consider the world capital of…
Caught in the midst of a sexual act, behind a locked door in his own bedroom with … his bicycle, a 51-year-old Scottish man is now a convicted sex criminal.
After the subprime mortgage meltdown in the U.S. and a resulting worldwide credit crunch worsens, a traditional law firm taboo against suing banks has been relaxed as related litigation looms.
A proposed transatlantic marriage of two well-known law firms based in New York City and London has been called off. Despite their seeming compatibility, Chadbourne & Parke and Watson Farley…
Three of London’s Magic Circle law firms reporting early November financial figures continue double-digit revenue growth over the same period last year.
Two of the firms—Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus…
Once upon a time, even major law firms routinely hired associates with the expectation that they could become partners. While no fairy tale, that expectation is now something of a…
Charlie Geffen readily admits he’s something of a workaholic. But, the British lawyer says, it doesn’t take an academic whiz to be one of the world’s most successful private equity…
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