Jack Newsham Reporter
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Jack Newsham is a reporter writing about law and the legal industry. He is based in New York.

Focus Areas

  • Law
  • Legal Industry

221 Articles
almost 4 years
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Facebook has hired a prosecutor who helped the US government go after Goldman in the 1MDB case to...

Woo Lee played a leading role in the US government's investigation into the multibillion-dollar 1MDB fraud scheme. No...

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almost 4 years
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Biden's pick for the Department of Homeland Security raked in millions at WilmerHale advising Bla...

Alejandro Mayorkas is leaving the partnership at Big Law firm WilmerHale to join the Biden administration.

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almost 4 years
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A boutique investment bank says Citi tried to swoop in on a major client after hiring one of its ...

A boutique investment bank says one of its top oil-and-gas dealmakers violated a noncompete and tried to stop his mov...

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almost 4 years
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Law firms hired fewer partners from government positions this year. Here are 12 moves that made w...

Government lawyers had a harder time this year landing a cushy partner role at a big law firm. Here are the hires tha...

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almost 4 years
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18 legal headhunters identify the biggest rainmaker moves of 2020, from M&A and IPO pros to regul...

Some firms invested millions in hiring lateral partners, with King & Spalding, Willkie Farr, Paul Weiss, and others s...

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almost 4 years
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18 legal headhunters identify the biggest rainmaker moves of 2020, from M&A and IPO pros to regul...

Law firms will pay good money for prominent lawyers who can bring in big business. Here are dozens of names, accordin...

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almost 4 years
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5 top capital-markets lawyers take us inside the IPO frenzy: Here's how they're raking in million...

A late-year IPO boom has meant a burst of activity for capital markets lawyers at firms like Cooley, Latham & Watkins...

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almost 4 years
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Founders of an ad agency that worked for Facebook and Netflix claim advertising company Dentsu ow...

Dentsu acquired the Silicon Valley agency Character in 2018 to expand its consulting practice.

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almost 4 years
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Elite law firm Boies Schiller just named 3 new managing partners, including lawyers who have repr...

Alan Vickery, Matthew Schwartz and Sigrid McCawley, a lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein's victims, are the firm's new managi...

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almost 4 years
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Here's how 4 litigation financiers are thinking about data and analytics — and why some players t...

AI is often talked about as the next big thing in litigation finance. But no one is turning underwriting decisions ov...

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almost 4 years
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David Boies just outlined a leadership shuffle at his elite litigation firm after a top lawyer ov...

Nicholas Gravante is joining Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. He had been overseeing a restructuring following a series ...

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almost 4 years
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A top banking lawyer who just joined Blackstone's board is moving to the powerhouse law firm Kirk...

Reg Brown, a top partner at WilmerHale who was named in September to a position on Blackstone's board of directors, i...

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