The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.
Category: KIRKLAND & ELLIS
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Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’
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Trump Allies Look to Benefit From Pro Bono Promises by Elite Law Firms
Veterans, in particular, are seeking free legal work from firms that cut deals with the White House like Skadden, Kirkland & Ellis and Paul Weiss.
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Five More Big Law Firms Reach Deals With Trump
Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft agreed to do free legal work on causes the White House supports.
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Big Law Splinters Under a Trump Onslaught
The president’s repeated clashes with the nation’s most prestigious law firms has had a destabilizing business effect.
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At Paul Weiss, Panic, Poachers and a Fight for the Bottom Line
Fears that competitors could take its top rainmaking talent added to the law firm’s worries about a Trump executive order that targeted it.
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Wall Street Law Firms Are in a Poaching Frenzy. Kind of Like the N.B.A.
Enormous pay packages are popping up for top lawyers, especially those favored by well-heeled private equity clients.
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How a Case Against Fox News Tore Apart a Media-Fighting Law Firm
Tensions had been brewing for years inside Clare Locke, a top defamation law firm. Then came the biggest defamation case of them all.
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Law Firms Warn Universities About Antisemitism on Campus
Two dozen major Wall Street firms sent a letter to top law schools to crack down on discrimination and harassment amid an escalation in incidents targeting Jewish students.
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A $700 Million Bonanza for the Winners of Crypto’s Collapse: Lawyers
Bankruptcy lawyers and other corporate turnaround specialists have reaped major fees from the bankruptcies of five cryptocurrency companies, including FTX.