Two law firms known for protecting reputations have decided that courtroom advocacy is sometimes too late. On October 14, Virginia-based Clare Locke LLP and London’s Schillings announced CLS Vision, an investigations and intelligence venture in Alexandria, Virginia. The premise is simple enough: when a business faces an anonymous smear campaign or a disputed transaction, finding out who is behind it may matter as much as preparing the eventual legal claim. The new business is

On October 1, a group of Washington insurance lawyers did something more consequential than change letterhead: they separated a recognized specialty from the multipractice institution around it. The launch of Tyka Law LLP by 21 lawyers departing Wiley Rein LLP raises a question familiar to smaller firms but rarely asked so plainly in large ones: how much of a client's loyalty belongs to the lawyers, and how much to their firm? The new practice has 12 founding partners and nin