In today’s column, Freshfields posted global revenues up 7% to around $2.05 billion; a New York judge changed her mind about getting the Covid vaccine; and a French startup helps companies include access to legal services in their benefits packages.

• Leading off, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Goldsmith Romero hired Joe Cisewski, the legal counsel of crypto-currency specialist hedge fund Pantera Capital, as chief of staff and senior counsel. Romero said Cisewski’s “fluency on digital-asset and other issues will be valuable as the agency’s Technology Advisory Committee embarks on its agenda later this year.” (CFTC.gov)
• Freshfields, Bruckhaus Deringer’s global revenues rose 7% to 1.7 billion pounds ($2.05 billion) for its latest fiscal year, putting it behind Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy. However, Freshfields’ average profits per equity partner, which rose 8% to reach 2.07 million pounds, led both those Magic Circle rivals, a report said. (Law.com International) (The Lawyer)
• London firm Macfarlanes beat all three of those Magic Circle firms with average PEP up 19.1% to 2.48 million pounds ($2.99 million). (Global Legal Post) (Law.com International)

Lawyers, Law Firms

• New York Court of Appeals Associate Judge Jenny Rivera, who had refused to be vaccinated against Covid-19 and has been working remotely, now says she’s willing to get the shot. That could remove one obstacle to her becoming the state’s acting chief judge when Chief Judge Janet...

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