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Simmons Relocates Partners to Dubai HQ

Simmons & Simmons is banishing two finance partners to the firm's Dubai office. Banking and restructuring partner Phillip Abbott, and…

Cleveland's Jones Day, the nation's second largest law firm, is absorbing Mexico City's De Ovando y Martínez del Campo, to create…

Last March, prominent US human rights lawyer Emanuel Zeltser drank a cup of coffee in a London cafe. The next…

Magic Circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP apparently has a lot of money lying around, a lot of free…

A legal adviser for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is demanding that a Georgia judge apologize for jailing a woman who…

The DC Court of Appeals has rejected former judge Roy L. Pearson Jr.'s request for a new trial regarding his…

A husband and wife are suing United Airlines for "overserving" alcohol during a flight from Osaka, Japan to San Francisco,…

From The USA Today Sky Blog: Experts are predicting a rash of airline mergers in 2009. "As we are in…

In more Shearman & Sterling news: the New York law firm has announced ten partner promotions. Seven of the promotions…

New York's Shearman & Sterling has promoted Huang Ling and Sanja Udovicic to partners in Asia, and has relocated Lorna…

On the ParalegalProfs blog, a report on law firms that outsource work to India: As outsourcing becomes more commonplace and…

The Daily Tabloids blog reports that the London office of New York's Cravath Swaine & Moore has slashed its cost…