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Business Wire
21-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Altair Law Appoints Stephen Walton as Chief Marketing Officer to Lead Strategic Growth and Brand Expansion
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Altair Law is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephen Walton as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), marking a significant milestone in the firm's continued growth and diversification strategy. Walton will lead Altair's marketing, branding, and business development efforts as the firm expands its footprint across both established and emerging legal markets. Altair Law Appoints Stephen Walton as Chief Marketing Officer to Lead Strategic Growth and Brand Expansion Share This strategic executive hire comes on the heels of Altair Law's expansion into employment law, complementing its nationally recognized personal injury practice. 'Stephen brings a proven track record of driving strategic marketing initiatives in highly regulated and competitive industries,' said Andje Medina, Partner at Altair Law. 'His leadership will be instrumental in deepening our professional relationships, amplifying our brand presence, and supporting the firm's evolution into new areas of legal service.' With over two decades of experience, Walton has held senior leadership roles across legal, financial, pharmaceutical, and real estate sectors. Most recently, he served as VP and CMO at Douglas Wilson Companies. From 2015 to 2023, he was Regional Head of Marketing at national Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli. His prior experience includes key roles at AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Bank of America, where he led impactful marketing strategies in complex, highly regulated environments. As CMO, Walton will oversee all aspects of marketing strategy, media and public relations, digital outreach, client engagement, and lead generation. His efforts will focus on strengthening Altair's market position and supporting long-term strategic objectives. 'We are excited to welcome Stephen to Altair Law,' said Mee Mee Wong, Chief Operating Officer. 'His expertise and vision will be invaluable as we continue to scale the firm's capabilities, expand our reach, and deliver exceptional value to clients across a dynamic legal landscape.' About Altair Law Altair Law is a boutique trial litigation firm specializing in catastrophic personal injury and employment litigation. We are often the first call after a life-altering event, representing pedestrians, cyclists, drivers, workers, patients, and consumers. Our attorneys are known for their commitment to justice, especially for those facing difficult odds. We tackle legal challenges with creativity, tenacity, and a no-stone-unturned approach. Collaboration is at the heart of our practice. Our trial-tested team strives to deliver exceptional courtroom results and is widely recognized for excellence in litigation and client advocacy across the legal industry.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AI Innovation Takes Center Stage at iManage ConnectLive 2025
iManage spotlights latest generative AI advancements and productivity breakthroughs amid 25.3% ARR growth CHICAGO, May 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, today announced that it will showcase its latest wave of AI-driven innovation at its flagship customer conference, iManage ConnectLive 2025. The company enters the event on a strong growth trajectory, driven by rapid adoption of generative AI capabilities and continued investment in modernizing knowledge work. Since the start of the year, iManage has signed 87 new customers, bringing its total to 4,275 organizations globally — including 80% of the AmLaw 100 and 41% of the Fortune 100. More than 75% of these customers rely on iManage Cloud, which saw 25.3% year-over-year growth in annual recurring revenue as of March 2025. AI-Powered Knowledge Work, EvolvedA centerpiece of iManage's innovation is Ask iManage, a secure, AI-powered assistant natively embedded in the iManage Work 10 experience. Launched in 2024 and rapidly enhanced in 2025, Ask iManage is designed to reduce context switching and elevate productivity — bringing AI directly into the tools professionals already use. Major recent enhancements include: Smart Guided Actions: Ready-to-use intuitive capabilities like 'Overview,' 'Extract,' 'Summarize,' and 'Analyze' allowing users to get results from legal, financial and accounting content without needing expertise in prompt engineering. Chronology Action: Automatically organizes events from documents into structured, citation-backed timelines, ideal for litigation prep, due diligence, checklist summaries and more. Unified document insights with Ask Across: Extracts consistent, relevant answers from document sets, streamlining information gathering and review. This is particularly useful for legal teams who need to analyze large sets of documents quickly and efficiently. Microsoft Word Integration: Stay within your work environment when drafting - Allows users to engage with Ask iManage capabilities directly in Word to summarize, extract, find and analyze content without switching applications and context switching. Ask iManage History: Reference personalized project history to save, manage, and revisit Ask iManage document collections with ease and leverage previous work. These updates demonstrate iManage's commitment to embedding AI seamlessly into daily workflows — helping customers unlock the full value of their organizational knowledge. Customers enabling Ask iManage are supported by the extensive Wayfinder program — a guided rollout initiative offering structured enablement, onboarding, and support for iManage Cloud customers. Feedback from Wayfinder participants has directly shaped new features, ensuring real-world relevance and immediate value. Continued Investment in the iManage PlatformThese AI advancements build on iManage's broader investment in its core platform — ensuring that while AI accelerates insight and efficiency, the underlying user experience remains seamless, secure, and intuitive. From productivity features to cloud-native integrations, iManage continues to enhance the foundation that knowledge workers rely on every day. Unleashing Knowledge Velocity: Removing Friction, Advancing GovernanceiManage continues to drive meaningful productivity gains by removing friction from knowledge work — while also investing in the foundations that make AI effective: good data, responsible governance, and secure collaboration. iManage has introduced high-performance tools like iManage Work OCR — a high-speed, AI-powered optical character recognition capability that makes image-based documents searchable. Powered by Azure Document Intelligence - Read, the iManage Cloud OCR is now 25% more accurate, 100x faster, and supports 6x more throughput than previous versions. This powerful OCR capability exemplifies the ways the deep technical partnership between Microsoft and iManage delivers tangible benefits to today's knowledge professionals. This improved OCR service, powered by Azure Document Intelligence - Read is available to all subscribed iManage Cloud Work OCR users at no additional cost. This is part of a broader strategy to Unleash Knowledge Velocity by helping customers build high-quality, well-governed data sets — the essential ingredient for effective use of AI. iManage's integrated records management and governance capabilities ensure customers have integrated capabilities to meet the governance, security and compliance obligations. 'As we welcome customers to ConnectLive 2025, we're excited to showcase the innovations that are reshaping how legal and knowledge professionals work,' said Neil Araujo, CEO, iManage. 'This year marks our 30th anniversary — a milestone that reflects our long-standing commitment to empowering professionals to maximize their productivity while also keeping their information assets governed and secure. With the rapid evolution of AI, we're not just adding new features — we're using AI to enhance our core capabilities and make the work that legal professionals do every day faster, smarter and safer." ConnectLive 2025ConnectLive 2025 brings together legal, financial, and corporate professionals to explore the future of AI-powered knowledge work — and how modern platforms like iManage are enabling organizations to work safer, faster, and smarter. Across all three cities, attendees will gain hands-on exposure to the platform capabilities driving this transformation — from practical AI applications to records governance and secure collaboration. With over 30 sessions each day, the event offers deep dives into knowledge management innovation, customer use cases, and product strategy, as well as opportunities to connect with and learn from peers and iManage experts. Chicago Keynote HighlightFireside Chat: Building an Effective AI Strategy: Tony Surma, CTO for Microsoft's Americas Global Partner Solutions organization, joins Neil Araujo for a conversation on the real-world challenges and practical considerations of implementing a successful AI strategy. Whether attending in New York, Chicago, or London, ConnectLive attendees will experience how iManage is Unleashing Knowledge Velocity — helping organizations modernize their approach to information, build better data sets, and govern knowledge more effectively in the era of AI. ConnectLive New York: May 13, 2025 ConnectLive Chicago: May 15, 2025 ConnectLive London: June 4, 2025 Learn more here. About iManageiManage is dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™. Our cloud-native platform is at the center of the knowledge economy, enabling every organization to work more productively, collaboratively, and securely. Built on more than 20 years of industry experience, iManage helps leading organizations manage documents and emails more efficiently, protect vital information assets, and leverage knowledge to drive better business outcomes. As your strategic business partner, we employ our award-winning AI-enabled technology, an extensive partner ecosystem, and a customer-centric approach to provide support and guidance you can trust to make knowledge work for you. iManage is relied on by more than one million professionals at 4,000 organizations around the world. Visit to learn more. Follow iManage via:LinkedIn: X: Press contact:Alicia Saragosa, iManagepress@
Business Wire
06-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Edward Vergara Joins Seward & Kissel as Co-Head of Trusts & Estates Practice
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seward & Kissel LLP announced today that Edward Vergara has joined the firm's New York office as Co-Head of its Trusts & Estates Practice. Vergara started his legal career at Seward & Kissel and thereafter served as a partner at an AmLaw 100 firm, Head of Tax and Estate at a family office startup, and a partner at a boutique law firm focused on high-end private clients. He advises individuals, fiduciaries, and closely held businesses on a broad range of matters related to tax optimization and succession planning. His client base includes founders, executives, fund principals, and other investors and business leaders. 'I am pleased to co-head the Trusts & Estates Practice alongside Ed,' said Kristen Curatolo, Co-Head of Seward & Kissel's Trusts & Estates Practice and Co-Leader of the Private Wealth and Family Office Team. 'Ed has over two decades of experience advising cross-border individuals and families. His expertise will greatly expand our capabilities and immediately add value to our clients.' Vergara focuses his practice on advising cross-border families and businesses. He often works with taxpayers managing changes of residency, including not only pre-immigration and expatriation planning for the United States, but also changes of residency and domicile between U.S. jurisdictions. Many of his engagements involve coordination with advisors in multiple jurisdictions to help clients manage tax, reporting, and succession issues both in the United States and in the jurisdictions where assets or other stakeholders reside. He often works with fiduciaries and beneficiaries of foreign trusts and foundations managing U.S. tax and reporting considerations. 'Ed's arrival reinforces our firm's commitment to delivering top-tier service and expertise to our clients,' said Managing Partner and Chair of the Tax, ERISA, and Trusts & Estates Group, James Cofer. 'His leadership and depth of experience will further strengthen our Trusts & Estates Practice.' 'It's a privilege to be welcomed back to Seward & Kissel and return to the culture of excellence and collegiality where I started my career,' stated Vergara. 'The scope of the Trusts & Estates Practice's work is a perfect complement to my own practice.' Vergara received his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He received his B.A. from New College of Florida. Vergara's arrival is the latest in a series of lateral hires by Seward & Kissel. Since 2023, the firm has added Kristen Curatolo, the Co-Head of the firm's Trusts & Estates Group, from Kirkland & Ellis; David Baron, Head of the Employment Group, from Hogan Lovells; Peter Shea, a partner in the Investment Management Group, from K&L Gates; Walter Van Dorn, a partner in the Capital Markets and Corporate Securities Group, from Dentons; Ronald Hewitt, a partner in the Global Banking and Corporate Trust Group, from Covington & Burling LLP; Sonita Bennitt, a partner in the Tax Group, from Goodwin Procter; Daniel Viola, a partner in the Investment Management Group, from Sadis & Goldberg; and Caroline Lee, a partner in the Fund Finance Group, from Dechert LLP. About Seward & Kissel LLP Seward & Kissel LLP, founded in 1890, is a leading U.S. law firm with offices in New York City and Washington, D.C., with particular expertise in the financial services, investment management, banking and shipping industries. The firm is well known for its representation of investment advisers and related investment funds, broker-dealers, commercial banks, institutional investors and transportation companies. Its practices primarily focus on corporate, M&A, securities, litigation, restructuring/bankruptcy, real estate, regulatory, tax, trusts and estates, employment and ERISA for clients seeking legal expertise in these areas.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Edward Vergara Joins Seward & Kissel as Co-Head of Trusts & Estates Practice
Edward Vergara NEW YORK, May 06, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seward & Kissel LLP announced today that Edward Vergara has joined the firm's New York office as Co-Head of its Trusts & Estates Practice. Vergara started his legal career at Seward & Kissel and thereafter served as a partner at an AmLaw 100 firm, Head of Tax and Estate at a family office startup, and a partner at a boutique law firm focused on high-end private clients. He advises individuals, fiduciaries, and closely held businesses on a broad range of matters related to tax optimization and succession planning. His client base includes founders, executives, fund principals, and other investors and business leaders. "I am pleased to co-head the Trusts & Estates Practice alongside Ed," said Kristen Curatolo, Co-Head of Seward & Kissel's Trusts & Estates Practice and Co-Leader of the Private Wealth and Family Office Team. "Ed has over two decades of experience advising cross-border individuals and families. His expertise will greatly expand our capabilities and immediately add value to our clients." Vergara focuses his practice on advising cross-border families and businesses. He often works with taxpayers managing changes of residency, including not only pre-immigration and expatriation planning for the United States, but also changes of residency and domicile between U.S. jurisdictions. Many of his engagements involve coordination with advisors in multiple jurisdictions to help clients manage tax, reporting, and succession issues both in the United States and in the jurisdictions where assets or other stakeholders reside. He often works with fiduciaries and beneficiaries of foreign trusts and foundations managing U.S. tax and reporting considerations. "Ed's arrival reinforces our firm's commitment to delivering top-tier service and expertise to our clients," said Managing Partner and Chair of the Tax, ERISA, and Trusts & Estates Group, James Cofer. "His leadership and depth of experience will further strengthen our Trusts & Estates Practice." "It's a privilege to be welcomed back to Seward & Kissel and return to the culture of excellence and collegiality where I started my career," stated Vergara. "The scope of the Trusts & Estates Practice's work is a perfect complement to my own practice." Vergara received his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He received his B.A. from New College of Florida. Vergara's arrival is the latest in a series of lateral hires by Seward & Kissel. Since 2023, the firm has added Kristen Curatolo, the Co-Head of the firm's Trusts & Estates Group, from Kirkland & Ellis; David Baron, Head of the Employment Group, from Hogan Lovells; Peter Shea, a partner in the Investment Management Group, from K&L Gates; Walter Van Dorn, a partner in the Capital Markets and Corporate Securities Group, from Dentons; Ronald Hewitt, a partner in the Global Banking and Corporate Trust Group, from Covington & Burling LLP; Sonita Bennitt, a partner in the Tax Group, from Goodwin Procter; Daniel Viola, a partner in the Investment Management Group, from Sadis & Goldberg; and Caroline Lee, a partner in the Fund Finance Group, from Dechert LLP.
Los Angeles Times
30-04-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
Glaser Weil Names Trial Lawyer Carla Christofferson as Partner in Century City Office
Glaser Weil has announced that Carla Christofferson has joined the firm as a partner in its Century City office. A seasoned trial lawyer with an impressive track record in complex, high-stakes litigation, Christofferson brings more than three decades of experience across a wide spectrum of commercial and consumer disputes. Christofferson's practice focuses on complex business litigation, class action defense, Proposition 65, unfair trade practices, and real estate and contract litigation. She has successfully represented major players across the retail, energy, entertainment, real estate, technology and financial services industries. Her deep trial experience and strategic insights have made her a go-to advisor for high-profile clients facing significant legal challenges. 'Carla is a powerhouse addition to our Century City office and to our litigation bench,' said Peter Weil, Glaser Weil's managing partner. 'Her combination of courtroom talent, business acumen and leadership experience aligns perfectly with our mission to deliver elite representation to our clients.' In addition to her work in private practice – including as a partner at an Am Law 100 firm and managing partner of one of its largest offices – Christofferson has held senior executive roles at major global companies. She served as chief legal officer of an international engineering and construction firm with operations in more than 70 countries and later as chief risk officer of a global technology company with over 130,000 employees. These roles gave her firsthand insight into the legal and operational challenges faced by global businesses. 'Carla brings the rare perspective of someone who has both led complex litigation matters and steered global legal and risk operations at the highest levels,' said Patricia Glaser, chair of the firm's litigation department. 'Her arrival is a significant step in our continued strategy to build one of the most formidable litigation practices in California.' Christofferson added, 'Glaser Weil stands out for its deep litigation talent, trial excellence and entrepreneurial spirit. I'm excited to join such an accomplished group and to help drive the continued growth of the firm's litigation practice in Los Angeles and beyond.' A graduate of Yale Law School, Christofferson earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of North Dakota. She began her career by clerking for the Hon. W. Matthew Byrne, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In addition to her legal career, she is a founding board member of a global entertainment company involved in television and film as well as a prominent sports content platform. Information was sourced from Glaser Weil. To learn more, contact communications@
