by Kevin Livingston | Featured Article, Interviews, Latest News
Economic conditions and the political environment have not negatively affected the interests of international legal firms in Spain. And that is good news for clients. The International Bar Association’s week-long conference in Vienna last fall highlighted that...
by Kevin Livingston | Featured Article, Latest News
Recent data published by the American Bar Association shows that the percentage of 2015 law graduates who have found full-time, long-term employment in bar-passage-required or JD advantage positions has grown modestly in the last year, from around 69 percent in 2014...
by Julia Foresman | Featured Article, Latest News
In the wake of a Deloitte report that uncovered “internal weaknesses” in how Telenor handled corruption allegations at VimpelCom, two senior executives at the Norwegian company have stepped down. Telenor holds a 33 percent stake in the telecom giant. Though Deloitte’s...
by Kevin Livingston | Featured Article, Latest News
Latham & Watkins received 11 top-10 rankings, the most of any law firm, in The American Lawyer’s 2016 Corporate Scorecard, the annual compilation of transactional legal advisor activity during the previous year. Based on league table data, the firm’s stellar...
by Julia Foresman | Big Deals, events, Featured Article, Latest News, On the Move
Central Asian law firm Colibri Law has partnered with Iranian firm Gheidi & Associates to become the second international law firm after CMS to open an office in Tehran. The office will focus largely on corporate M&A matters, including joint venture...
by Kevin Livingston | Featured Article, Latest News
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has dramatically scaled back its global legal panel, with just six firms making the cut out of an original field of 250. Allen & Overy, Baker & Mackenzie, Clifford Chance, Eversheds, Norton Rose Fulbright and Reed Smith are the only...