Philadelphia personal injury firm Laffey Bucci & Kent has parted ways with named partner and firm co-founder Brian Kent, effective on April 11. “We prefer to say nothing further about our former partner,” said an emailed statement from firm co-founder Jeffrey Laffey, who confirmed Kent’s departure as occurring earlier this…

The closing of Reddit’s oversubscribed IPO earlier this month is certainly an event that IPO market participants are celebrating. It is anticipated that Reddit’s successful transaction will jumpstart an IPO market that has seen very limited activity over the past two years. Ari Edelman, partner at Olshan Frome Wolosky. Courtesy…

There’s something of a subgenre here at The Litigation Daily involving appellate advocates who accomplish great logistic travel feats to deliver their arguments. Be it logging 1,100 miles to deliver arguments on back-to-back days in separate circuits or handling three arguments in four cases in one week, we’re a sucker…

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,…