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  • September 14, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Congressional Breakthrough On Patent Reform Likely This Fall

    While the U.S. Congress currently seems to be at an impasse on bipartisan legislation on a wide variety of important matters, to its credit it has almost reconciled nearly 60 years of debate over h

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  • October 5, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    NY Lawyers On the Move

    Allan Dinkoff, formerly a managing director and head of the employment law group at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., has joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges as co

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  • May 10, 2007 | The Recorder

    In Brief

    CRAVATH STARTS UP BANKRUPTCY PRACTICENEW YORK � Cravath, Swaine & Moore apparently sees what a lot firms see: growth in restructuring work. The firm announced Wednesday that

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  • January 8, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Bankruptcy Practice

    During the past year, we have witnessed a steady increase in corporate bankruptcy filings. Alongside the rise in unemployment and the decline in consumer spending, the retail and housing

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  • September 26, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Suit Adds to Cadwalader's Woes

    NEW YORK � As the global slowdown in the market for mortgage-backed securities threatens a core practice area of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the New York law firm is also wrestling with

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  • April 8, 2010 | International Edition

    BigLaw Partner Aborts Announced Plan to Defect

    LONDON - Kirkland & Ellis restructuring partner Paul Atherton has backed out of a move to Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) and is set to continue at Kirkland's London arm. Last month, the

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  • November 29, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Health Law

    This is the second of a two-part column dealing with the issue of excessive executive compensation in not-for-profit corporations. As noted in Part 1, which appeared on Sept. 29 (The New York

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  • January 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Desperate Measures

    IP boutique Morgan & Finnegan has seen a raft of defections over the last few years. Now a court filing reveals just how desperate the firm has become to retain partners. It even

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  • September 14, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Providing Clarity In Article 9

    By now, Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) has become familiar to most transactional lawyers.1/su

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  • March 30, 2009 | National Law Journal

    VOIR DIRE

    Ballsy memo We encourage you to go to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's client memo Web page right now to see if the single most bizarre memo we've ever se

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