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This first-year New York lawyer is big news...in Japan

Legal Industry · October 22, 2021 · 8:26 PM UTC

Kei Komuro might be the most headline-grabbing lawyer you’ve never heard of.

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Legal Industry · October 24, 2021 · 12:29 AM UTC

Alec Baldwin shooting victim was wife of Latham & Watkins lawyer

The husband of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who was fatally shot by actor Alec Baldwin with a prop gun on Thursday, is a corporate lawyer in Latham & Watkins' Los Angeles office.

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