After Trump's 2016 victory, the two announced his firm would invest $50 billion in the U.S. Tokyo-based SoftBank is an investment company that focuses on financial, tech and energy companies.

The tug-of-war between Big Law firms and their most profitable corporate clients has shifted in favor of firms as they increasingly use advance conflict-of-interest waivers seeking to govern whether, ...

As President-elect Trump gets ready to begin his second term, law firms need to get themselves ready for a dynamic legal landscape shaped by deregulation, possible renewed inflation, and potential ...

But let’s not sugarcoat things – getting there is no walk in the park; far from it. Law school is highly demanding, the bar exam extremely hard, and even when you’re done with your studies, succeeding ...

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel’s proposed merger with international firm Herbert Smith Freehills is the latest in a series of moves that finds legacy New York firms seeking to keep pace with ...

Eleven lawyers from the Big Four firm EY have been poached by the London office of Hunton Andrews Kurth, a US law firm. The team of departees includes Charles Morrison, a partner and former head ...

The country’s biggest law firms are trimming the number of staff for the first time in almost five years after a long period of frenzied hiring and as demand for top-tier lawyers begins to moderate.

As more Biden political appointees hit the job market in the coming weeks, law firms may be vetting candidates from the government even more. More than a dozen attorneys practicing at private law ...

When it comes to rating and ranking the best law firms, there’s no shortage of metrics to choose from. Whether it’s revenue, partner profits, headcount or law firm rankings (and there are well-worn ...

Japanese companies urged for immigration procedures to be eased, issuance of VAT invoices expedited, and traffic congestions addressed in a dialogue with Ho Chi MInh City leaders on Monday. Ono Masuo, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When research was under way for the very first FT Innovative Lawyers report two decades ago, few law firms ...

Now, in response, law firms are expanding their products and services to cover anything from cyber crime and generative AI to cultural disagreements in the workplace. “Historically, law firms ...