As major corporations increasingly replace annual performance reviews with more frequent and informal check-ins, employment law scholars caution firms to mitigate litigation risks that could arise from this transition. These risks stem primarily from the lack of proper documentation which would traditionally be prepared during annual reviews. Decisions about raises, promotions, and terminations often depend…
The Magic Circle, a term historically referring to a select group of premier UK-founded law firms, has seen its glow diminish in recent years due to competition from larger, higher-profit US firms. This shift is bound to become more prominent as the merger between Allen & Overy and Wall Street firm Shearman & Sterling pushes…
The February 9 merger of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling marks the birth of a transatlantic law giant – A&O Shearman. However, while the move positions the firm as the world’s fourth-largest law firm with $3.5 billion in annual revenue and a robust army of 4,000 lawyers, penetrating the big league of the…
Jones Day, a DC-based law firm, has made headlines as five of its attorneys have taken to the US Supreme Court lectern this term, distinguishing it as the firm with the most arguments so far. A significant aspect of this achievement is that several of these attorneys are presenting their first high court cases this…
The American Privacy Rights Act, currently under review, poses interesting challenges to the core functioning of online ad-supported businesses. Unlike traditional models of state privacy laws, like the California Consumer Privacy Act and Colorado Privacy Act, the new federal privacy bill introduces more stringent consent requirements surrounding the transfer of sensitive data commonly used for…