• March 23, 2018 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week: Eugene Scalia Scores Again

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner Eugene Scalia took out a truly monster-sized regulation: the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule.

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  • February 23, 2018 | National Law Journal

    Russia Files: Read the Rick Gates Plea Agreement, Statement of Offense

    Robert Mueller's special counsel team released the plea agreement and statement of offense in the case against Richard Gates. We've posted the documents here. Gates is the latest defendant in the Russia investigation to plead guilty and agree to cooperate.

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  • February 6, 2018 | The Recorder

    Schiff Hardin Bags Commercial Litigator Beugelmans in Bay Area

    Mauricio Beugelmans, a former executive director and compliance counsel at Morgan Stanley who set up his own private practice in 2009, has joined Schiff Hardin in San Francisco.

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  • January 19, 2018 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firms Band Together to Feed Hungry New Yorkers

    Participating firms include Alston & Bird, Cadwalader, Carter Ledyard & Milburn, Dentons US, Goldman Sachs, Jones Day, Kramer Levin, McLaughlin & Stern, Morgan Stanley, O'Melveny, Paul Weiss, Ropes & Gray, Sidley Austin, Skadden, Weil Gotshal, Wells Fargo and White & Case.

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  • November 28, 2017 | The American Lawyer

    JPMorgan Initiative Aims to Boost Women's Roles on Litigation Teams

    The bank wants at least 50 percent women or lawyers from other underrepresented demographic groups in leadership positions on its litigation matters, as well as among its chosen arbitrators.

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  • November 27, 2017 | National Law Journal

    Goodwin Procter Grabs Anthony Alexis, Formerly CFPB's Enforcement Chief

    Anthony Alexis, the former enforcement director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is joining Goodwin Procter, where he will lead the firm's consumer financial services enforcement practice as a partner. Goodwin Procter was among several firms that recently had expressed interest in hiring a top official from the Obama-era agency, whose leadership was thrown into tumult over the weekend. Two acting directors of the agency, replacing Richard Cordray, have assumed power.

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  • Gramercy Emerging Markets Fund v. Allied Irish Banks, P.L.C.

    Publication Date: 2017-11-08
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Commercial Law
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Brauerman and Sara E. Bussiere, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Sean F. O'Shea, Michael E. Petrella, Amanda L. Devereux, and Brian B. Alexander, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, New York, NY, attorneys for appellants
    for defendant: Kevin R. Shannon and Christopher N. Kelly, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Walter C. Carlson and Elizabeth Y. Austin, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL; Kenneth J. Nachbar and Ryan D. Stottman, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christopher Landau, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DE; Brian D. Sieve and Jessica L. Staiger, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL; Jeremy M. Feigenbaum, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY, attorneys for appellees.

    Case Number: D67926

    Evaluating dismissal of a case on forum non conveniens grounds, previously dismissed by another jurisdiction on forum non conveniens grounds as well, required balanced application of forum non conveniens standards under the Cryo-Maid holding.

  • November 7, 2017 | National Law Journal

    CFPB Lawyer Kristen Donoghue Is Picked for Agency's Enforcement Chief

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to name Kristen Donoghue, the top deputy under outgoing enforcement chief Anthony Alexis, to lead the Obama-era agency's effort to police the financial industry, according to three sources familiar with the decision. Donoghue is a longtime agency lawyer who formerly worked at Hogan Lovells.

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  • November 1, 2017 | International

    Are Global Law Firms Leaving Hong Kong's Financial District for Cheaper Digs?

    With Hong Kong already listed as the world's most expensive market for office space, Freshfields is about to move to a less costly, up-and-coming area. Others in Big Law may follow.

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  • October 25, 2017 | National Law Journal

    Who's Hiring from the CFPB? These Law Firms Showed Interest.

    Four prominent law firms courted at least one top-level official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this summer. Between June and July, the firms Sidley Austin, Ballard Spahr, Goodwin Procter and Manatt Phelps each requested meetings with one or more CFPB officials, according to documents The National Law Journal obtained through a public records request.

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