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Harvard tops the list of best law school for producing M&A attorneys. Shocker, I know.

September 12, 2016 - 11:56am

The good folks at Deal Point Data compiled a ranking of law schools that have produced the most prolific attorneys in the highly competitive and lucrative field of U.S. public M&A advisory. Harvard Law ranked number one. Attorneys that received their law degrees from Harvard Law School led the market in terms of both the number of deals and the dollar value of deals they have worked on. The ranking is based on transactions announced from January 1, 2008 to July 30, 2016 for publicly traded targets involving U.S. listed firms.

Another UK firm cuts back

September 8, 2016 - 6:43pm

As reported in the law blog Above The Law

DLA Piper eliminates 180 more UK jobs, nearly 500 total eliminated in 3 years

September 7, 2016 - 3:30pm

DLA Piper has decided to slash 180 jobs across all of its business support roles in the United Kingdom, in order to shift jobs to its new back-office hub in Warsaw, Poland.

Denton's goes all Goodfellas on European Partners with nearly $8 Million in additional capital contributions

September 2, 2016 - 11:04am

Partners in continental Europe affiliated with Dentons are being asked to pay up to $7.8 million in extra capital according a report in the American Law Journal. The world’s largest law firm by attorney head count has asked to inject between 6 million euros ($6.7 million) and 7 million euros ($7.8 million) of additional capital into the business during the next two years.

Cheif Judge Merrick McGarland still voted most likely to succeed...by the press not anyone that actually gets to decide

August 2, 2016 - 9:01am

You know it's August in DC when it's an actual "news" story that same the current administration's nominee to fill the same still vacant SCOTUS seat that still has not even sniffed an up or down vote and won't get one anytime soon is still the most likely to continue to not be endorsed or selected or get a vote because that is what someone in the media chose to write about to fill the time in August and that got picked by or also written about by everyone else with

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