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

204 Articles
about 3 years ago
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Trump's lawyer Marc Kasowitz's law firm raised $6.5 million from partners amid departures

Marc Kasowitz just lost nine lawyers who formed their own firm. The departures nearly coincided with the firm's first...

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over 3 years ago
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A top SEC official was receiving a $1.6 million law-firm pension from Simpson Thacher that was 7 ...

"Golden parachutes" from banks have been targeted by President Biden. What about a law-firm partner's $1.6 million pe...

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over 3 years ago
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Facebook just hired a top lawyer from ViacomCBS as the social-media giant's first chief complianc...

Henry Moniz, a longtime compliance executive at Viacom and ViacomCBS, is joining the senior ranks of Facebook's legal...

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over 3 years ago
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Coca-Cola's goals for its law firms prioritize Black lawyers, long overlooked by Big Law, in push...

Coca-Cola's top lawyer has told law firms to give work to Black lawyers. It's unlike other companies' pushes for dive...

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over 3 years ago
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Trump is becoming an 'untouchable client.' Here's how law firms are turning on the president, fro...

Law firms, normally staid institutions, are taking public stances against Trump. He's also struggling to find represe...

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over 3 years ago
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Theranos 'dumped' a useless, double-encrypted blood-test database on prosecutors, then destroyed ...

The blood-testing startup destroyed an important laboratory database after giving investigators an unusable copy, fed...

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over 3 years ago
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Meet 11 of the lawyers and former regulators helping Robinhood navigate angry customer lawsuits a...

As the trading app faces a slew of legal hurdles while reportedly eyeing an IPO, it's bolstering its legal team with ...

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over 3 years ago
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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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over 3 years ago
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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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over 3 years ago
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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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over 3 years ago
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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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over 3 years ago
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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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