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Craic (/ k r æ k / KRAK) or crack is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is often used with the definite article – the craic [ 1 ] – as in the expression "What's the craic?", meaning "How are you?"
YouTube began as an angel-funded enterprise working from a makeshift office in a garage. In November 2005, venture firm Sequoia Capital invested an initial $3.5 million, [19] and Roelof Botha (a partner of the firm and former CFO of PayPal) joined the YouTube board of directors. In April 2006, Sequoia and Artis Capital Management invested an ...
In 2012, Saper was selected as a "40 Under 40" attorney by Law Bulletin Publishing Company. [15] She has been named a "rising star" by Super Lawyers Magazine each year since 2009. [ 16 ] Saper was a featured speaker at SXSW 2017 and the NYC Porn Film Festival 2016, discussing revenge porn litigation at both events.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1909, Kirkland & Ellis is the largest law firm in the world by revenue and the seventh-largest by number of attorneys. [5] It was the first law firm in the world to reach US$7 billion in annual revenue. [6]
On April 20, 1988, the firm dissolved following complications from the merge. [3] At the start of the merge, 225 attorneys worked under the Isham name. By the end, only eight remained. Isham Lincoln & Beale was the second-oldest legal firm in Chicago after Sidley Austin. Several of its attorneys left for Sonnenschein Carlin Nath & Rosenthal ...
[4] [6] [7] By 1970 the firm was beginning to grow substantially, and in 2001, after absorbing firms in Chicago and Washington, D.C., it was the 11th-largest firm in the United States. [ 8 ] In 1969 the firm adopted the name Foley & Lardner LLP and launched a succession of acquisitions to become a national law firm. [ 9 ]
Craic implies a certain happy state of mind, and a certain abandonment too. 83.70.47.147 10:48, 27 April 2006 (UTC) The fact is that most people accept that the word craic was a recent addition to the Irish language, and the word developed from the Middle English word crack. The word is used in both senses in Northern Ireland at least, and most ...
The firm was founded in 1929 and became known as Thompson Coburn in 1996 through the merger of two St. Louis firms, Thompson & Mitchell and Coburn & Croft. [citation needed] In July 2007 Thompson Coburn merged with Fagel Haber of Chicago. [6] In 2013, the firm merged with Los Angeles-based Freedman Weisz LLP and opened an office in Los Angeles. [7]