McDermott Will & Emery will be left with just one intellectual property partner in its London office with the departure of department chair Larry Cohen.
In a groundbreaking move envisioning a not-so-distant time when non-attorneys can invest in law firms, a group has taken on the task of assigning a monetary value to the world’s…
Highlighting the difference between U.S. and European employment law, the the European Union’s top court ruled today that it is legal for employers to set a mandatory retirement age.
A British lawyer who seemingly had it all, Bruce Hyman was also a wonderful guy. So friends were stunned when he became the first barrister in the bar’s 800-year history…
Documents from controversial trials 700 years ago that still fascinate many today are to be published by the Vatican later this month in a limited, leather-bound edition of 799 numbered…
A rumored $102 million settlement to be paid by Paul McCartney to end his five-year marriage to Heather Mills would be the largest ever in a contested divorce case in…
A London tribunal has sided with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in a claim by a former partner who contended the law firm’s new pension plan discriminated against older lawyers.
Concerned about obvious risks when she found out her teenage children were using marijuana, Nicola Cooper called a family meeting. Then the self-described “liberal parent” decided to act to protect…
Class actions as we know them in the U.S. are virtually unheard of in Europe, and corporations located in the EU would like to keep it that way. Hence, a…
Seemingly on the ropes after a Uzbekistan billionaire’s lawyers pressured his former Web host into taking down his site, an Internet critic is back online today in an ongoing Internet…
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