Wake Up Call: Lawyers Use NFT to Serve Order in Blockchain Suit

In today’s column, Goodwin and Simpson Thacher guided a private equity-funded deal for legaltech company MyCase; Mayer Brown’s London managing partner told partners not to spoil associates’ vacations with non-urgent work; Holland & Knight grabbed a five-partner private equity team in Charlotte.

• Leading off, two Holland & Knight asset recovery attorneys in Miami say they’re the first to use a non-fungible token to serve a temporary restraining order on anonymous defendants. The attorneys said that, with a New York judge’s approval, they used an NFT to serve the order in a suit over $8 million in allegedly stolen Ethereum blockchain ...