Category: Law Firm

Matthew Dysart Joins Law Firm Greenberg Glusker as Partner

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Matthew Dysart has joined Los Angeles-based entertainment law firm Greenberg Glusker as a partner. Dysart comes to Greenberg Glusker after having served as head of legal affairs for Spotify and AwesomenessTV. “I’m thrilled that Matt has joined the firm,” Matt Galsor, head of the Greenberg Glusker’s entertainment practice, said. “Matt is an extremely smart and effective lawyer, and I can’t wait to work with him.” An experienced entertainment attorney, Dysart has a background working in TV, feature films, podcasts, digital media and technology. He has handled more than $2 billion in corporate development, M&A, film and TV slate finance and…
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Video Schema Demystified in Custom Legal Marketing’s Latest Video

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San Francisco, California – Custom Legal Marketing, a law firm marketing firm with offices in San Francisco, CA and Tampa, Florida, has launched a new video on leveraging Scheme for lawyers. This is the latest episode in their Scheme for Lawyers series, which was released on YouTube last Summer. In the video, Custom Legal Marketing Co-Founder, Jason Bland, talks about how video schema can help steer search traffic directly to a law firm’s website instead of a YouTube channel and how that can give a law firm a strategic edge because it brings potential clients directly to their website rather…
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LFFI Q4 2023 analysis: Will the growth pattern of law firm rates seen in 2023 continue into 2024?

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While our Law Firm Financial Index showed an incredibly strong performance on rates in the fourth quarter of 2023, delving deeper into the data reveals an even more remarkable story The Thomson Reuters Institute’s Law Firm Financial Index results for the fourth quarter of 2023 showed incredibly strong average rate performance across the legal market. Indeed, the final quarter of 2023 posted average worked (agreed) rate growth of 6.5% compared to Q4 2022, continuing a several-years-long trend of improving rate growth for law firms. However, the end of 2023 was remarkable for a couple of other reasons as well. Law…
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Pomerantz Law Firm Announces the Filing of a Class Action Against Hut 8 Corp. and Certain Officers

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NEW YORK, March 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Hut 8 Corp. (“Hut 8” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: HUT). The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New Yorkand docketed under 24 -cv-01636, is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Hut 8 securities between November 9, 2023 and January 18, 2024, inclusive (the “Class Period”). Plaintiff pursues claims against the Defendants under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). If you are a shareholder who purchased…
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World’s Wealthiest Law Firm Conducts Layoffs Due To Market Conditions

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The highest-grossing law firm in the world is reportedly conducting layoffs — and remarkably, they’re not of the stealth variety this time. As noted by Law.com International, Kirkland & Ellis — a firm that brought in $6,514,300,000 gross revenue in 2022, putting it at No. 1 on the most recent Global 200 — recently handed out pink slips to at least nine of its capital markets attorneys in Asia, where the firm has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Market conditions in the area have been described as “turbulent.” Here are some additional details: The capital markets lawyers were…
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Offshore firm Appleby makes banking hire in HK from Mourant

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Offshore law firm Appleby has added banking and finance expert Lily Miao as a partner in its Hong Kong office from rival Mourant Ozannes, where she was a counsel. Miao becomes Appleby’s fourth lateral partner hired in Hong Kong in about 12 months. Since February last year, the office has added partners Lorinda Peasland, Eason Huang, and Kitty Chan. With close to 15 years of offshore and onshore experience in Asia and the UK, she advises on transactions ranging from leveraged and acquisition finance to real estate finance and general corporate lending, with a focus on fund finance. Prior to…
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Failure to engage on diversity “should feature in performance reviews”

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Ali: Wealth of knowledge continues to grow Failure by lawyers to engage on diversity issues should be “taken into account” and have “consequences” in performance reviews, a report has been recommended. It found that lawyers at large firms from ethnic minority backgrounds stayed on average 18 months less than their White counterparts. Researchers from London law firm diversity network NOTICED – made up of 28 leading City, US and national law firms – said the 2024 Best Practices Report was a follow-up to a similar report published in 2019 and based on roundtable discussions held by member firms. They recommended…
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Private Debt Investor Honors Dechert as Law Firm of the Year for Fund Formation in Asia-Pacific

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Dechert LLP has been recognized as Asia-Pacific Law Firm of the Year for Fund Formation by Private Debt Investor in the PDI Global Awards 2023. With winners chosen by industry vote, the PDI award program is the highest-profile in the private credit industry. Dechert is one of the two top-ranked law firms globally in PDI’s Hall of Fame, having won seven “Law Firm of the Year” titles over the contest’s 11-year history. Over the past year, Dechert’s Asia-based funds team set up six credit funds involving commitments of US$1,345 billion. Highlights include the formation of Ping An’s second private credit…
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