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Booming Private Equity Field Leads to Dream Jobs
Private equity firms, awash in cash and business, have been rushing to hire in-house lawyers.Attorneys see growth in move to private equity
SEAN DOHERTY WAS a 36-year-old associate at Ropes Gray when he got a job offer from the private equity firm Bain Capital in 2005. Doherty was a deal lawyer, which was important to Bain executives, but they weren't looking for someone to advise them on deals. Bain had decided, after 21 years in business, that it was time to hire its first in-house lawyer.Dealing With Complex Workplace Gender-Discrimination Issues
For the first time in history, women are half of all U.S. workers, and mothers are the primary or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American families. The recent economic downturn accelerated this trend: Men lost three-quarters of the jobs shed from December 2007 to October 2009.Kirkland, Simpson Lead on $1 Billion KKR-Melrose Deal
Private equity firm KKR has agreed to pay roughly $1 billion in cash to acquire two industrial products businesses from U.K. manufacturing investor Melrose Industries. Kirkland is advising KKR while the buyout firm's usual outside counsel, Simpson Thacher, is handling the sale for Melrose.Justice Augustus C. AgateU.S. Bank Nat. v. Chowdhury (16347/09)—Motion GrantedJustice Denis J. ButlerOnewest Bank v. W
UC Berkeley Launching Summer LL.M. Program
Tapping into demand from international students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law is launching an accelerated summer LL.M. program in 2009. Nell Newton -- dean of Hastings College of the Law, which offers LL.M. courses to about 20 students during the academic year -- says an accelerated summer program isn't a bad way for budget-strapped public schools to make extra money and notes that business schools, which have long offered executive MBA programs, are ahead of law schools on that front.Revenue, Profit, Cash: Managing Law Firms for Success
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Law Firm Operational Considerations for the Corporate Transparency Act
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