Legal News & Industry Insights

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‘Most’ Firms Didn’t Provide Diversity Info in Response to EEOC Letters, DOJ Says
A DOJ filing stated that law firms were exempt from answering EEOC requests for diversity data. Additionally, according to the...
August 20, 2025
Hybrid Work Policies Still Dominate at Am Law 200 Firms
According to a recent Savills report, most Am Law 200 companies have either fixed or flexible hybrid work schedules. Only...
August 20, 2025
Ropes Summer Associates Took a Crash Course on Using AI on the Job
Ropes & Gray provided their summer associates with training in gen AI. During projects for the company, the summer associates...
August 20, 2025
As AI Homogenizes Big Law, Things Will Get Brutal at the Top
According to The Global Lawyer, Gen AI will define what elite legal services are and, in the process, make hiring...
August 20, 2025
Trade Work Booms for Law Firms Amid Trump Tariffs
Since the President’s sparked a worldwide trade war this year, big law firms’ trade practices have been flourishing. Customs to...
August 20, 2025
In the President’s Battle With Big Law, Has Leverage Shifted?
Big Law is not in the same place as it was this spring, notwithstanding the President’s agreements with nine law...
August 20, 2025
Weil Gotshal Adds New Global ITC, IP Chair After Recent IP Partner Laterals
The most recent in a series of IP-focused hires, Weil Gotshal & Manges announced last Monday the appointment of a...
August 20, 2025
‘More Clients Push Back’ on Soaring Rates, Even as They Need Outside Counsel Guidance More Than Ever
The suffering legal departments were already experiencing from hiring more outside counsel to help them negotiate the unstable environment of...
August 20, 2025
Mayer Brown advises Wing Tai Properties Limited and Manhattan Holdings Limited on building upgrade and lease regear of 30 Gresham Street, London
In an extensive building renovation and lease renewal involving multiple leases covering more than 350,000 sq. ft. NIA of office...
August 20, 2025
King & Spalding Adds IP Partners on Both Coasts From Goodwin Procter
King & Spalding bolsters its intellectual property practices with the addition of Andrew Ong and Amadou Diaw to the firm...
August 19, 2025
Assurant $300 million senior notes offering
Davis Polk represented Assurant, Inc. in an SEC-registered offering of $300 million aggregate principal amount of 5.550% senior notes due...
August 19, 2025
Davis Polk advised the representative of the initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A / Regulation S offering of $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.750% senior secured notes due 2032 and $750 million aggregate principal amount of 6.250% s
Davis Polk represented the representative of the initial purchasers in a Rule 144A / Regulation S offering of $1 billion...
August 19, 2025