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Addleshaw Goddard raids BCLP, K&L Gates in Paris to open 22-strong office 29 January 2021 Addleshaw Goddard raids BCLP, K&L Gates in Paris to open 22-strong office Team of 18 BCLP lawyers led by former office head forms bedrock of UK firm s second mainland European arm By mapman; Shutterstock Addleshaw Goddard is stepping up its post-Brexit European presence with the opening of a Paris office, hiring 18 lawyers from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) and four from K&L Gates. The French move doubles the firm’s continental European offering, adding to its existing practice in Hamburg, which opened in June 2019, also following a BCLP raid. ....
While a court clerk fought to the last ditch against press access, a box on the counter in Ventura’s state court stood as a symbol of access past and future. Screenshot of U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee, during an interview with the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. LOS ANGELES (CN) On the counter in Ventura Superior Court sat the ghost of access past, a white, plastic press box. It came from the days of old when new cases were filed in paper and the local press was strong. But in 2011, when Courthouse News first challenged the Ventura court clerk on First Amendment grounds, it sat useless on the counter. ....
After years of legal contest with the huge Southern California court of Orange County, a deal has been struck and the press will once again have access to the new civil cases when they cross the counter, one that was physical and is now virtual. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California. (Courthouse News photo / Bill Girdner) SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) A long time ago, in late 2002, a supervisor at the superior court in Orange County told a group of reporters they would no longer be seeing the new civil complaints at the end of the day. The clerk had decided to scan the documents first. The supervisor, named Connie, told the reporters they would see the new cases the next morning. But it did not work out that way. ....
They probably saved my life | Former inmate says nonprofit keeps him, others out of jail Derrick Mitchell is one of about 700 people who have participated in the Concordance Academy of Leadership aimed at preventing them from going back to prison Author: Christine Byers (KSDK) Updated: 7:24 PM CST January 21, 2021 ST. LOUIS Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series about Concordance Academy of Leadership, a nonprofit aimed at reducing recidivism. The next installment in the series will highlight the story of a current participant. You can read the first part . Derrick Mitchell was nearing the end of a 10-year prison sentence when a member of the Concordance Academy of Leadership approached him with an opportunity: ....
‘Black lawyers like me are a painfully small minority’ Corporate purpose cannot just be about profit, says Segun Osuntokun, who won the top gong at last year’s Black British Business Awards Segun Osuntokun is London managing partner at law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Credit: Eddie Mulholland Segun Osuntokun is the head of a City law firm responsible for 900 employees and £250m of turnover. He has three decades of experience advising banks, private equity funds and blue chip companies. But when he turns up for a meeting, he is still conscious of his race. “You walk into a meeting room or a negotiating room [and] you’re the only black person in the room – you’re the most senior person in the team,” he says. ....