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  • October 9, 2007 | Legal Times

    Alston & Bird's losses to DLA highlight firms' opposite places on spectrum

    A FEW MONTHS AGO, William Cook found himself in India-New Delhi, to be exact-speaking with a manager for his firm's second-largest client. They were, thankfully, in an air-conditioned confere

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  • April 29, 2002 | Legal Times

    Rising Stock

    David Becker couldn't have picked a better time to look for a job.Thanks to the post-Enron boom in federal investigations of corporate America, the outgoing general counsel of the Securities

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  • April 8, 2011 | Bloomberg

    Warren 'Do-Right' Buffett gives errant kiss

    Long ago when I was a young reporter covering the Arkansas legislature for the local paper in Little Rock, there was a line I'd hear in the hallways periodically about the prevailing moral st

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  • January 29, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The 2001 Lateral Market: Tough Yet Viable

    In addition to the Sept. 11 tragedy, 2001 will be remembered for the economic downturn that led to the second recession in the past 10 years. The events and aftermath of the terrorist attacks clear

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  • August 20, 2010 | Bloomberg

    In fraud cases, investors may actually have a voice

    It turns out investors might have a voice after all when it comes to matters of fraud and punishment at the Securities and Exchange Commission. All they have to do, it seems, is ask.

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  • April 21, 2009 | Bloomberg

    Wells Fargo's profit looks too good to be true

    Wells Fargo & Co. stunned the world two weeks ago by proclaiming it had just finished its most profitable quarter ever. This will go down as the moment when lots of investors decided it w

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  • March 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Dream Jobs: Cruise Control

    An ad in the Miami Herald changed the course of Arnaldo Perez's career in 1992. It advertised an in-house assistant counsel position at Carnival Corporation & pl

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  • December 17, 2012 | National Law Journal

    The best still charge the most

    Big-firm lawyers still have a sweet deal. Top partners at major law firms continue to command premium hourly prices for their services. The National Law Journal sampled 55 law f

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  • March 21, 2002 | The Recorder

    To Merge or Not to Merge

    Last month, the grapevine at Cooley Godward buzzed with one big rumor: that the firm was about to merge with L.A.'s O'Melveny & Myers in an effort to boost the Palo Alto, Calif., firm's

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  • October 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Abu Dhabi: The Desert's New Hot Spot

    While tales of Dubai's staggering excesses were de rigueur during the boom years, its neighbor in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Abu Dhabi, maintained a relat

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