Law 360

APRIL 1, 2024

Morris James LLP has hired three attorneys from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP to launch the Delaware firm's new corporate and mergers and acquisition practice and enhance its already established corporate law services, the firm said Monday.

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Law 360

AUGUST 11, 2021

After a four-decade-long career at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, corporate and securities lawyer Martha McGarry has dodged the firm's mandatory retirement policy and joined Mayer Brown as a partner in New York.

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Law 360

MARCH 30, 2022

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP represented defendants in more securities cases than any other firm in the last three years, according to a Lex Machina report that shows securities filings in federal court are on the rise.

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Law 360

JUNE 16, 2023

London-based Watson Farley & Williams LLP announced Thursday it has hired an international corporate lawyer as a partner in its New York office, who joins the firm after past stints at Clifford Chance LLP, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and Dickinson Wright PLLC.

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Law 360

APRIL 4, 2024

Global law firms Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Goodwin Procter LLP and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz were among the most active legal counsel providers for global mergers and acquisitions in the first quarter of this year, according to a new report from the London Stock Exchange Group.

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Law 360

MARCH 21, 2022

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP announced Monday that a former associate director of the U.S.

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LawSites

APRIL 9, 2024

Dashboard Legal was founded in 2020 by Mathew Rotenberg , its CEO and a former associate at law firms Akin Gump and Skadden Arps, and Fedor Garin , its CTO and a software engineer. Added Rotenberg: “The reality for most inhouse lawyers is that they come from law firms, they work in much the same way.”

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 11, 2023

For more than 10 years, ACEDS has trained lawyers, paralegals and other legal support professionals at law firms, corporate legal departments, the government, and in academia. He also operates a successful consulting practice that provides guidance to corporate legal departments and law firms. There are, of course, exceptions.

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LawSites

MAY 31, 2022

It may be one of the least heralded yet most critical jobs in many law firms – that of the docketing professional – and it is one that calls for a unique combination of technical, data-management, organizational and communication skills. They were all managers and they felt that we needed a San Francisco organization.

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Vanguard

JUNE 11, 2020

According to research firm Ampere Analysis, the global film and television industry is projected to lose an eye-popping $160 billion of growth over the next five years, with the biggest impact being felt in 2020 and throughout 2021.

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Above The Law

MAY 26, 2023

The post Skadden’s Four-Day In-Office Work Week Mandate Is A Power Play appeared first on Above the Law. Have associates lost their Biglaw bargaining power?

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Above The Law

AUGUST 12, 2022

The post Elite Biglaw Firm Gently Reminds Associates To Get Back To The Office After ‘Remote August’ appeared first on Above the Law. Associates will have to work from the office Tuesday through Thursday each week.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

From 1997 to 2001, Judge Stark was an associate in the Wilmington, Delaware office of the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He served as a law clerk for Judge Walter Stapleton on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1996 to 1997. Judge Stark received his J.D.

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Fordham Law News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

7] Harmonious with this view, and an encouraging sign for the SPAC market, over 60 of the nation’s leading law firms have issued a Joint Statement in defense of SPACs. [8] 28] There is hope, however, for a resurgence in SPAC issuances as many law firms agree that there are strong defenses available to the defendant SPACs.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Biglaw firms with single partnership tiers are now few and far between, with more big-name firms showing that theyre ready, willing, and able to welcome nonequity partners to their ranks. Skaddens partnership is expected to discuss plans to adopt salaried partners later this year, according to people familiar with the situation.

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Above The Law

MAY 13, 2025

As major law firms either cave to Donald Trumps demands by making deals with the administration or cower in silence, the gap between law firm leaders and the young lawyers who work for them has never been more stark. Some senior lawyers have also left firms that made deals with Trump. based firm tells me. The message?

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Above The Law

APRIL 10, 2025

(not the Mr. T of “The A-Team,” a popular TV show of decades ago) has announced that some of the law firms he has used for target practice have agreed to his terms and conditions pursuant to various executive orders. Cadwalader is the latest Biglaw firm trying to avoid an executive order. Benny replied, Im thinking it over.

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Above The Law

MARCH 31, 2025

Last week, Biglaw firm Skadden Arps bent a knee to the Trump administration, striking a deal that includes $100 million in pro bono payola to prevent Donald Trump from lashing out with an Executive Order targeting the firm. It makes sense that associates are organizing in this way.

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Above The Law

APRIL 1, 2025

AS TRAUMATIC AS THE PAUL WEISS DEAL with Donald Trump was for many of us , I find the deal that Skadden Arps recently cut even more troubling portending, I fear, the unfathomable depths that Biglaw will sink to curry favor with this administration. First, it was striking that Skadden chose preemptive capitulation.

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

The increased focus on law firms was on display o n yesterday’s episode of 60 Minutes. The show (also a target of a vindictive Trump) featured a segment on the Executive Orders targeting Biglaw firms, and the capitulation of nine firms to the demands of the president. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her.

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Above The Law

MARCH 25, 2025

The Department of Justice has already begun that dirty work, with a spokesperson saying the agency has started “an immediate review of law firms who have participated in inappropriate activity and weaponized lawfare.” Over the weekend, shadow president Elon Musk issued a stark warning to Skadden Arps.

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Above The Law

MARCH 27, 2025

(Photo by David Becker/Getty Images) Fresh off shadow president Elon Musk’s chilling warning to Skadden Arps, the New York Times is reporting the #5 richest Biglaw firm is in the midst of negotiating a deal with the Trump administration. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her.

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Above The Law

MARCH 31, 2025

Highlights from Last Week – Top Fifteen Headlines #1 Trump Expands Retribution Against Law Firms in New Executive Order. From the Wall Street Journal : President Trump signed an executive order targeting the Jenner & Block law firm. The firm has created a website Jenner Stands Firm to follow their legal challenge to the EO.

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Above The Law

MARCH 28, 2025

photo by David Lat Last night, we learned Skadden Arps would be taking the coward’s way out from under Donald Trump’s ire, with the New York Times reporting the number 5 richest law firm in the nation was seeking a deal with the administration to avoid an Executive Order targeting the firm.

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Above The Law

APRIL 15, 2025

To put it bluntly, nine of the nations most profitable law firms cut deals with the administration in order to get off the presidents personal s**t list. These firms are: Paul Weiss, Skadden Arps, Willkie Farr, Milbank Tweed, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher, A&O Shearman, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.

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Above The Law

MARCH 17, 2025

The onslaught continues with 20 Biglaw firms receiving letters from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Acting Chair Andrea Lucas informing them they’re being investigated by the agency. ” All because the firm has at any point made public statements or programs in support of diversity in the profession.

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Above The Law

APRIL 14, 2025

Highlights from Last Week – Top Fifteen Headlines #1 Executive Order Threatening Susman Godfrey Firm Sues in Response. 2 Nearly $1B in Pro Bono Work Pledged by Firms to Avoid Punitive Executive Orders – Trump Plans to Use it for Tariffs, Coal Industry and the America First Agenda. Two headlines for #1. Read more here.

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JURIST

APRIL 27, 2025

A workers’ advocacy group has filed an unfair labor charge against the law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (“Skadden”), for agreeing to provide provide free legal services to causes aligned with President Donald Trump’s administration and curtailing its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

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Above The Law

APRIL 8, 2025

The firm neither capitulated nor caved to the administration, he writes. What exactly did the firm promise? And, considering that the firm ensured its survival by making the deal, the benefits clearly outweighed the costs. Thus began a series of lively exchanges between us on Biglaw in the age of Trump. There is a number for X.

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