Wake Up Call: ‘Anti-Semitism’ Costs U.K. Theater Big Law Funds

In today’s column, Latham has canceled all holiday parties for the year after a gathering at the firm’s New York office apparently sparked an outbreak of Covid cases; reinsurance giant Swiss Re called on the U.S. government to regulate the litigation funding industry; those big bonuses and salary hikes Big Law firms are shelling out this year are pushing up their compensation costs.

• Leading off, Kirkland & Ellis and Weil, Gotshal & Manges withdrew as financial sponsors for the London-based Royal Court Theatre in a controversy over the name of a character in a new play performing there. After critics ...