• July 30, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Bounty Hunter Tobacco Suit Is Thrown Out

    A legal theory allowing bounty hunters to sue tobacco companies first dreamed up by a Washington lawyer and a Baltimore law professor is "imaginative," but ultimately does not hold water

    1 minute read

  • April 1, 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

    1 minute read

  • March 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Freeport-McMoRan Plains Explorations & Production CompanyMcMoRan ExplorationFreeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. made a major move into oil

    1 minute read

  • December 23, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Sullivan & Cromwell, Wachtell, Cravath Advise on $4.1 Billion Bank Acquisition The BMO Financial Group, parent of Bank of Montreal, has announced th

    1 minute read

  • April 30, 2012 | National Law Journal

    INADMISSIBLE

    MILLETT SETS RECORD WITH 31ST SUPREME CASE Patricia Millett, head of the Supreme Court practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, reached a new mile

    1 minute read

  • May 15, 2006 | The Recorder

    Top M&A Deals of 2005: Acquired by CA Co.

    Top M&A Deals of 200

    1 minute read

  • April 25, 2007 | Legal Times

    Summer Work Plentiful for Law Students

    It's good to be Stephanie Holmes. The second-year law student at Catholic University, Columbus School of Law applied to 24 firms at the start of her summer job search. She got 23 callbacks.

    1 minute read

  • December 2, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Accolades

    Helping Nonprofit Businesses For outstanding pro bono business counsel given to nonprofit organizations, the Lawyers Alliance for New York presented its annual Corners

    1 minute read

  • February 16, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Mergers and Acquisitions

    The Blackstone Group To Buy Pinnacle Foods of Mountain Lakes Pinnacle Foods Group Inc., the Mountain Lakes manufacturer of Swanson frozen dinners, Vlasic pickles and othe

    1 minute read

  • September 27, 2010 | National Law Journal

    FTC loses an easy one

    The case looked like a slam-dunk for the Federal Trade Commission. A drug company allegedly cornered the market on a medicine — not just any medicine, but one used to treat prema

    1 minute read