Florida Bar Backtracks on Saying Halligan Is Under Investigation
The Florida Bar said it mistakenly wrote in a letter last month that it was investigating former Virginia US Attorney Lindsey Halligan.
For nearly three years, the two sides have battered each other with relentless legal filings in a New York court, and their war over who should pay at least hundreds of millions of dollars to sex abuse victims shows few signs of abating. Both accuse the other of an underhanded public relations campaign.
A new California law has already forced one out-of-state law firm to change its ownership structure.
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Alston & Bird is being sued by investors in Florida who say they were duped into contributing to an alleged $328 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme over business relationship contracts drafted by the international law firm.

A popular Wall Street tool to extend the life of private credit portfolios is driving work to corporate lawyers who have developed a specialty in the niche transactions.

The Florida Bar said it mistakenly wrote in a letter last month that it was investigating former Virginia US Attorney Lindsey Halligan.
Legal tech firm Upsolve Inc. lost its fight against New York Attorney General Letitia James arguing the state’s rules against the unauthorized practice of law violated its First Amendment rights.
ModivCare asked a court to reject White & Case LLP’s $14 million final fee request for its work in the medical transportation company’s bankruptcy, accusing the law firm of deliberately burying the company’s estate in legal fees.
Dealmakers are, for the second year in a row, seeing their chances of a record haul of mergers and acquisitions potentially fizzle out before the end of the first quarter.
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For nearly three years, the two sides have battered each other with relentless legal filings in a New York court, and their war over who should pay at least hundreds of millions of dollars to sex abuse victims shows few signs of abating. Both accuse the other of an underhanded public relations campaign.
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Latham & Watkins expects the brisk pace of deals work to continue in the new year after dethroning Kirkland & Ellis as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2025.
Latham & Watkins expects the brisk pace of deals work to continue in the new year after dethroning Kirkland & Ellis as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2025.
Big law associates work long days to meet annual targets of around 2,000 billable hours. Why do they do it? The financial rewards are substantial: starting salaries at top tier law firms begin at $225,000 annually. And that's not including lucrative year-end and special bonuses. In this video, we explain the system at the heart of Big Law's big paydays for its junior lawyers.


Wall Street’s two top regulators are discussing plans to move into the same building complex in Washington just steps from the US Capitol, according to people familiar with the matter.
Crypto-assets in India are subject to the country’s financial reporting rules as of Jan. 1, after the government expanded the types of assets subject to the requirements.
South Africa implemented the OECD-led crypto asset reporting standard this month, joining scores of countries committed to requiring crypto service providers to report information about transactions to tax authorities.
Kalshi Inc. should’ve paid out on a $54 million market speculating when Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would vacate his role after he was killed during US and Israeli airstrikes, a proposed class action said.
Prediction market platforms have justified their existence to regulators and lawmakers with a high-minded argument: their contracts are novel financial instruments that let investors hedge against economic and geopolitical risks in real time.
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