Debevoise & Plimpton, for example, has aggressively built a litigation unit in London in recent years.
In October, she is to become a litigation associate in the Washington office at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, a law firm based in London.
The Chinese authorities later confirmed the event, attributing the man's actions to "discontent over the outcome of a civil litigation in a local court," The Telegraph reported.
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Until last year, he was a senior associate in the Chicago office of the LECG Corporation, a litigation consultancy in Devon, Pa.
In January, the bridegroom is to become a litigation associate in the New York office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.
In November the bridegroom is to become a litigation associate in Washington with Latham & Watkins, the Los Angeles law firm.
Mrs. Leitch is a litigation associate in the New York office of Cooley Godward Kronish, a law firm in Palo Alto, Calif.
The bridegroom, also 30, is a litigation lawyer in New York.
His father is a litigation partner in Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.
