A&O Shearman has announced its appointment to replace Khalid Garousha as the firm’s next managing partner for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. A&O partner David Foster will succeed Garousha in the role, after Garousha’s recent election to become the newly-merged firm’s senior partner. 

Reading Hospital agreed Monday to pay $32.5 million to resolve a birth injury lawsuit that, according to plaintiffs counsel, another lawyer had previously declined to pursue. Ross Feller Casey founding partner Matt Casey said his firm took on the case after the first attorney the injured child’s family contacted turned it down.…

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Slaughter and May are among the firms advising on U.S. company International Paper’s acquisition of U.K. packaging firm DS Smith. The combination has a transaction value of approximately $9.9 billion—equivalent to roughly £7.9 billion—according to an announcement from International Paper, which is based in Memphis,…

The Manhattan judge presiding over Donald Trump’s criminal case may have shocked the country when he empaneled seven jurors on Tuesday following just two days of jury selection—but observers say it shows the jurist is in complete control of the proceedings. “Despite everyone’s belief that voir dire was going to…

Law firms practising in the United Arab Emirates are expecting increased activity thanks to the implementation of the new bankruptcy law. The new legislation, which repealed the previous law, was published in October 2023 and will take effect on May 1.

The criminal trial of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, currently set for May 6, may be derailed by one of his co-defendants’ desire to potentially call another co-defendant’s lawyer as a trial witness, counsel for all parties revealed during a status conference Wednesday. Menendez and New Jersey businessmen Wael…