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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has announced plans to open an office in Hong Kong with a partner recruited from Korean law firm Kim & Chang.

Effective legal project management is on the minds of law departments, outside counsel, and the business units that partner with both sets of lawyers.

Tougaloo College is starting an 18-month commemoration of the civil rights movement, 50 years after the effort helped reshape the American political and social landscape.

"You hold the keys to the gates of justice," said Dees, founder and chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

LONDON and NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- London and New York City have experienced a massive tech boom in the last few years and are now serious competitors with Silicon Valley.

A San Francisco lawyer and former U.S. Justice Department official was confirmed to a judgeship on the U.S. District Court in San Francisco by the U.S. Senate today.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian government approved a decision on the signing of an agreement with an international organization on the provision of legal advisory services.

Fenwick & West has hired a corporate partner to lay the groundwork for an office in China -- the firm's first overseas.

Need further evidence that the economy continues to improve? The four-week moving average weekly jobless claims number has dropped to 336,750, its since November 2007.

"[Crowdfunding] lays the riskiest investments at the doorstep of those investors that can least afford the risk.

By Meisha Perrin Greater Miami is running so low on hotel inventory that attorney Daniel Marinberg of Greenberg Traurig says it isn't meeting demand.

Falling output across the bloc meant the 17-nation economy is in its longest recession since records began in 1995.

General Lighting Co, a Saudi Arabian company part-owned by Carlyle Group, plans to sell its shares on the Saudi stock market, paving the way for the private equity firm to exit its stake, two sources said.

For the fifth year in a row, U.S. employers have seen an increase in the number of wage-and-hour lawsuits filed against them in federal court, according to calculations by the Federal Judicial Center.

A company using a pseudonym in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is fighting to keep documents under seal in a dispute rooted in whether the public should be allowed to see a consumer product safety report.

The number of wage and hour filed with federal authorities on behalf of workers who claim they've been shorted increased for the fifth straight fiscal year, according to information from a government agency.

In their New York Court of Appeals Roundup, Roy L. Reardon and William T. Russell Jr., partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, discuss a trio of decisions discussing the ability of a trial court to close the courtroom during a criminal proceeding to protect the identity of testifying undercover police officers, a case in which the court clarified ... (more)

A Forest Acres couple is suing the state to challenge its decision to perform sexual-reassignment surgery on a toddler in its care who was born with both male and female internal sexual genitals.

McHenry County Judge Maureen McIntyre told attorneys Tuesday to "pencil in January or February" but otherwise gave no indications of when a manslaughter trial could begin for the nephew of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

On Monday, the Washington Post revealed that IRS officials in Washington, D.C. were involved with investigating conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, despite claims by the IRS's Lois Lerner that "low-level" workers in Cincinnati were the only ones involved in targeting conservative organizations.