• February 28, 2000 | New York Law Journal

    Sage Advice: How to Avoid Screw-Ups

    I have always considered good judgment to be the most important quality a lawyer can possess. Today, however, I want to focus on its flip side -- the really dumb mistake. The element of judg

    1 minute read

  • March 1, 2009 |

    TOP 10 Litigation Wins of 2008

    By Pamela Sherrid, Theodora Blanchfield, Susan Hansen, Joe Mullin, Joe Rosenbloom, and Todd Stone In the landscape of civil litigation, where only a tiny fraction of disputes are conc

    1 minute read

  • August 2, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Wachtell, V&E Lead on CB&I's $3 Billion Shaw Group Buy Chicago Bridge & Iron, a construction and engineering company that focuses on the ener

    1 minute read

  • October 1, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Protecting Big Timber

    NAME AND TITLE: James A. Kraft, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary. AGE: 47 COMPANY: Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc. owns timberlands, manufac

    1 minute read

  • December 30, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Skadden, Latham, Wachtell Lipton Advise in $2 Billion AMC Purchase Marquee Holdings Inc. completed a deal Dec. 23 to acquire AMC Entertainment for about $2 billion

    1 minute read

  • February 4, 2000 | Law News Network

    The Moral Compass

    Law firms are off to a great start in the new millennium if they want to emulate major league baseball owners. In the last two weeks, Big Silicon Valley and San Francisco firms have rushed into a s

    1 minute read

  • May 4, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    2nd Circuit samples wine deal that went sour

    Twenty-four years after William Koch paid $311,804 for four bottles of wine that had been falsely represented as coming from the cellars of Thomas Jefferson, the billionaire wine aficionado i

    1 minute read

  • July 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The A-List 2008: 21-50

    a target="new" href="http://alacra.almresearchonline.com/ALM-Research-Surveys-Lists-Ranking

    1 minute read

  • September 30, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Activision Blizzard / Vivendi Activision Blizzard Inc. took advantage of Vivendi SA's restructuring by agreeing on July 26 to buy back a 35 percent s

    1 minute read

  • June 25, 2008 | Legal Times

    Voice of experience: DOJ's Bernie Hollander

    Try this for institutional knowledge. One of his first big cases, back in the '50s, helped break RCA's monopoly on color TV technology. He's served every attorney general since J. Howa

    1 minute read