The lawsuit asserted Blackrock violated the Illinois genetic information privacy law by acquiring genealogy and DNA scanning company Ancestry.com without getting consent from people who submitted their DNA to Ancestry to be scanned and tested
Matt Levine, an opinion columnist for Bloomberg who has previously worked as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs, an acquisitions attorney for Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, and a federal appellate law clerk, wrote that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Binance is centered around the allegation that U.S. customers were able to trade crypto derivatives without proper regulatory approval.
After a judge rejected their arguments earlier this spring, Apple opted to quit the episode, rather than continue to try to resume their lawsuit claiming the city's 9% amusement tax was unconstitutional and illegal
Anna Wermuth, vice-chair of Cozen O’Connor’s national Labor & Employment Department, has been named to The American Lawyer’s 2022 list of Midwest Trailblazers.
Anna Wermuth, vice-chair of Cozen O’Connor’s national Labor and Employment Department has been named the 2022 Chicago Employment Law – Management “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America, one of the oldest and most highly regarded peer review publications in the legal profession.
Anna Wermuth, vice-chair of Cozen O’Connor’s national Labor & Employment Department, has been named to the second annual Salute! Women in Law Award list by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer magazine.
McGuireWoods’ capital markets team is a leader in prominent league tables for advising corporate issuers and underwriters in transactions during the first three months of 2020.
McGuireWoods locked in its standing as a leading law firm for M&A and syndicated lending deals in 2019 by repeating strong performances on the most closely watched league tables.
After receiving maximum award from jury, Chicago-based Motorola Solutions will next seek injunction vs Hytera to block continued use of allegedly pilfered products
Bloomberg Law interviewed Shook Attorney Erin Bolan Hines about the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (AIVIA) in "Law on Hiring Robots Could Trigger Litigation for Employers," October 11, 2019.
Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has earned Mansfield Certification Plus from Diversity Lab after completing the Mansfield Rule 2.0 twelve-month certification program.
McGuireWoods remained a dominant player advising clients in M&A transactions through the first half of 2019, earning top five rankings for U.S. deal count and top 10 rankings for global transactions in league tables by Refinitiv and Bloomberg.
Thomas J. DeSplinter, whose practice focuses largely on transactions involving major companies and private equity firms, particularly within the energy industry, has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in Chicago.
McGuireWoods strengthened its position as a go-to law firm for U.S. and global M&A transactions, earning top five rankings for U.S. deal count and top 10 rankings for global deals in year-end league tables published by Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters.
McGuireWoods Chicago partner Holly Buckley is among 36 women honored nationally on Mergers & Acquisitions “2019 Most Influential Women in Mid-Market M&A” list recognizing top dealmakers whose work and leadership shape the market.
Andy Kassner, Drinker Biddle Chairman and CEO, took part in Diversity Lab’s Fall Diversity in Law Hackathon and his team won second place among the 10 participating teams.
