• August 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

    On the Move

    • Zvi Hahn joined Steptoe & Johnson as a partner in the firm's tax group. He previously was a partner at

    1 minute read

  • August 15, 2016 | Legaltech News

    3 Recent Legal Tech Partnerships and What They Mean for the Industry

    The legal technology world is one of evolving challenges—as technology empowers attorneys to handle cases more effectively, it also makes those cases much more complex and difficul

    1 minute read

  • August 15, 2016 | The American Lawyer

    Ropes Welcomes Wachtell Funds Head, Plus More Lateral Moves

    Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, which a month ago saw a

    1 minute read

  • August 10, 2016 | Legaltech News

    Steptoe & Johnson to Expand Blockchain Practice, Accept Bitcoin Payments

    Law firm Steptoe & Johnson announced the expansion of its bloc practice to assist clients looking to develop and deploy bloc

    1 minute read

  • August 8, 2016 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    LATERALS AKERMAN (Chicago): Thomas Pasternak joins the intellectual property practice group as partner and will focu

    1 minute read

  • August 5, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

    US Gov't Let Out of Suit Over Fatal Plane Crash in Central Pa.

    The U.S. government, named as a defendant in a case over a plane crash that killed passengers conducting a Forest Service survey, has been dismissed from the litigation by a federal j

    1 minute read

  • July 29, 2016 | Litigation Daily

    Litigators of the Week: Reid Weingarten of Steptoe & Johnson LLP and Frank Libby of LibbyHoopes

    As the end of a six-week trial approached, Steptoe & Johnson LLP partner Reid Weingarten and LibbyHoopes partner Frank Libby had a decision to make: whether to put their clients on the

    1 minute read

  • Microsoft Corporation. v. United States

    Publication Date: 2016-07-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Lynch and Carney, C.JJ., and Bolden, D.J.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Microsoft Corporation: Robert M. Loeb and Brian P. Goldman, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, NY; Guy Petrillo, Petrillo Klein & Boxer LLP, New York, NY; James M. Garland and Alexander A. Berengaut, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC; Bradford L. Smith, David M. Howard, John Frank, Jonathan Palmer, and Nathaniel Jones, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA; on the brief, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. For Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York: Serrin Turner, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief, Justin Anderson, Assistant United States Attorney, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Amici Curiae Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, American Civil Liberties Union, The Constitution Project, and Electronic Frontier Foundation, in support of Appellant: Brett J. Williamson, David K. Lukmire, Nate Asher, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, NY; Faiza Patel, Michael Price, Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY; Hanni Fakhoury, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Alex Abdo, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae Apple, Inc., in support of Appellant: Kenneth M. Dreifach, Marc J. Zwillinger, Zwillgen PLLC, New York, NY and Washington, DC. For Amici Curiae BSA; The Software Alliance, Center for Democracy and Technology, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, The National Association of Manufacturers, and ACT | The App Association, in support of Appellant: Andrew J. Pincus, Paul W. Hughes, James F. Tierney, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC. For Amicus Curiae Anthony J. Colangelo, in support of Appellant: Steven A. Engel, Dechert LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae AT&T Corp., Rackspace US, Inc., Computer & Communications Industry Association, i2 Coalition, and Application Developers Alliance, in support of Appellant: Alan C. Raul, Kwaku A. Akowuah, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC. For Amicus Curiae Ireland: Peter D. Stergios, Charles D. Ray, McCarter & English, LLP, New York, NY and Hartford, CT. For Amici Curiae Amazon.com, Inc., and Accenture PLC, in support of Appellant: Peter Karanjia, Eric J. Feder, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae Verizon Communications, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Hewlett‐Packard Co., eBay Inc., Salesforce.com, Inc., and Infor, in support of Appellant: Michael Vatis, Jeffrey A. Novack, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, New York, NY; Randal S. Milch, Verizon Communications Inc., New York, NY; Kristofor T. Henning, Hewlett‐Packard Co., Wayne, PA; Amy Weaver, Daniel Reed, Salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA; Orin Snyder, Thomas G. Hungar, Alexander H. Southwell, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY; Mark Chandler, Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA; Aaron Johnson, eBay Inc., San Jose, CA. For Amici Curiae Media Organizations, in support of Appellant: Laura R. Handman, Alison Schary, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Washington, DC. For Amici Curiae Computer and Data Science Experts, in support of Appellant: Philip Warrick, Klarquist Sparkman, LLP, Portland, OR. For Amicus Curiae Jan Philipp Albrecht, Member of the European Parliament, in support of Appellant: Owen C. Pell, Ian S. Forrester, Q.C., Paige C. Spencer, White & Case, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae Jan Philipp Albrecht, Member of the European Parliament, in support of Appellant: Owen C. Pell, Ian S. Forrester, Q.C., Paige C. Spencer, White & Case, New York, NY; Edward McGarr, Simon McGarr, Dervila McGarr, McGarr Solicitors, Dublin, Ireland.

    Case Number: 14-2985

    Cite as: Microsoft v. US, 14-2985, NYLJ 1202762745398, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided July 14, 2016)CASE NAMEMicrosoft Corporation, Appellant v. United States of Amer

  • July 18, 2016 | National Law Journal

    Bitcoin Has an Image Problem — It's Time to Change That

    Bitcoin has an image problem. If you ask the average person about bitcoin, they may think it's a "currency for criminals," because it's been used in a very limited number o

    1 minute read

  • July 17, 2016 | The American Lawyer

    A Rare Cravath Hire Departs, Plus More Lateral Moves

    As Faiza Saeed prepares to ascend to Cravath, Swaine & Moore’s a href="http://www.law.com/sites/almstaff/2016/07/14/cravaths-first-woman-leader-promises-to-stay-the-course/" targe

    1 minute read