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* South Texas College of Law will not change its name to “Houston.” If they’re still looking at new names, here are some thoughts. [Houston Chronicle]
* Legal sector losing jobs in latest labor report. And this wasn’t even counting Preet! [Law360]
* Chipotle gets big win in shareholder food poisoning case. [Litigation Daily]
* DLA Piper saw revenue fall due to currency fluctuations. Don’t worry, they still turned a profit by firing people. [Am Law Daily]
* What’s the ideal pay gap between your most and least compensated partners? [Law.com]
* Lawyer’s wife took welfare while he worked at Mayer Brown. [NBC Washington]
* The “pants on fire” attorney tells his side of the story. [Associated Press via WPXI]
* Duncan Lloyd, the Philadelphia assistant city solicitor who spray-painted “F*ck Trump” on a building while wearing an ascot and holding a glass of wine, will be able to keep his job after completing 40 hours of community service. We’re sure many Americans feel that he has already completed his community service through his actions. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who took a leave of absence from Greenberg Traurig to support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump through the end of the election, has removed his name from consideration for any position in President-elect Trump’s administration (but only after reportedly being offered three other positions that he didn’t want). He’ll now be returning to his law firm. [ABC News]
* The struggling European and Middle East arm of King & Wood Mallesons has received “a number of indicative purchase offers” from other law firms. Biglaw behemoth Dentons is rumored to be a potential merger partner for firm’s EUME branch, with DLA Piper and Greenberg Traurig ready to make lateral offers to partners. [Big Law Business]
* Just because your law school isn’t one of the best in the nation, it doesn’t mean that you can’t dream big. Case in point: The most recent winners of the prestigious Skadden public interest fellowships has been announced, and two of them will graduate from CUNY School of Law. We’ll have more on the new Skadden Fellows later. [Skadden]
* Dislike? A woman who wanted to serve her estranged husband with divorce papers via Facebook has been denied by a judge who noted that the social networking profile had been inactive for two-plus years, writing that to allow service would be “akin to the Court permitting service by nail and mail to a building that no longer exists.” [WSJ Law Blog]
Simon Levine, Global Co-CEO and International Managing Partner
University of Cambridge, BA and MA
Frank W. Ryan, Global Co-CEO, Global Co-Chair, Americas Chair
Syracuse University, JD
Jackie K. Park, Co-US Managing Partner
Northwestern University School of Law, JD
Richard Chesley, Co-US Managing Partner, Managing Partner of the Americas
University of Cincinnati College of Law, JD
