• August 8, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    WTC Insurance Dispute Sent To State Court

    A dispute over whether as much as $525 million in insurance proceeds has been jeopardized by an agreement reordering ownership rights at the reconstructed World Trade Center site must be decid

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  • September 18, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Hunton & Williams launches L.A. office

    HUNTON & WILLIAMS IS now the latest firm to try its hand at the Los Angeles legal market, following a string of out-of-towners who set up shop in Southern California this year. Th

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  • March 28, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Bye-Bye Big Firm

    Move over, Big Law. Small Law is in. And the trend has proven to be more than a temporary reaction to the 2008 financial meltdown. Four years later, corporate lawyers are flocking to small f

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  • January 4, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Help Is on the Way

    AMERICAN LAWYER MEDIAVery quietly, a burgeoning breed of legal specialist has been convening regularly to refine, define, inform and inspire its members. Since 1990, members of the Professio

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  • November 28, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Swimming With the Big Fish

    Paul Tang's company was in a tough real estate dispute a few years ago, and though the details are no longer fresh, Tang remembers being impressed by the lawyer for the adversary, Ira Meislik.

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  • April 1, 2007 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Gargantuans At the Gate

    Last December, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz advised the two buyers in a deal to take Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., private. If the $28 billion cash-and-debt deal goes thro

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  • July 5, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Rescue Worker

    NAME AND TITLE: Thomas F. Berner, executive vice president and general counsel AGE: 52 FINANCING THE SMALL GUY: First Capital -- formally known as FCC L.L.C. -- m

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  • January 29, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

    A group of Bingham McCutchen energy and project finance lawyers has decamped to Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in New York. Led by partners TARA HIGGINS, TORSTEN

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  • March 27, 2006 | Legal Times

    Firms Buying Their Way Into the High Court Club

    It is billed as the most important patent case of the decade, and the companies on each side, eBay Inc. and MercExchange, a one-time online auction site, have fought tooth and nail. Both hired top

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  • September 4, 2008 | National Law Journal

    SEC dealt setbacks in recent actions

    The Securities and Exchange Commission has recently run into tough headwinds in a spate of hard-fought enforcement actions around the country that have been dismissed outright by federal judg

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