• March 3, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Sarbanes Deadline Is No Nightmare After All

    March 16 may not be such a nightmare after all. That's the date when the nation's biggest companies have to complete an audit of their internal controls � yet another chore courtesy of the Sar

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  • November 21, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    DOJ Kicks Back at Kickbacks Under Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

    Don't try to tell Mark Mendelsohn that bribery is just another cost of doing business overseas, because he won't buy it. Mendelsohn is the point man at the U.S. Department of Justice for enforc

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  • August 27, 2001 |

    Patton Pending

    Calling James L. Patton, Jr. the father of the Delaware bankruptcy bar isn't a stretch. He staked a claim for bankruptcy lawyers in general, and law firm Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor in

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  • December 8, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    City Bar Offers Filing Help to 9/11 FamiliesWith a filing deadline of Dec. 22 looming, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York will have some 40 attorney and paralega

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  • April 26, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Outside Counsel

    Can You Protect Yourself From Identity Theft?On Jan. 2, 2002, Harry Valetk of the Social Security Administration (SSA) reported in these pages that there are now some 500,000 cas

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  • April 27, 2007 | The Recorder

    Private Equity Comes to the Table

    High rollers have always been drawn to Las Vegas. Which could help explain why private equity funds have been placing such big bets there lately. Just this month, Apollo Management and Texas

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  • October 28, 2002 | Legal Times

    Chart: Out-of-Towners

    1 5 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Philadelphia 304 332 2 12 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom New York 236 208 3 17 Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue N/A 217 195 4 18

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  • October 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    In Re Swipe Fee LitigationVisa Inc., MasterCard Incorporated, and a group of credit card–issuing banks agreed on

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  • March 29, 2002 | Alm

    Welcome to the Age of E-Discovery

    A new, painless approach to big-ticket discovery has arrived. With e-discovery, a party's electronic documents are moved into a vast, electronic database that attorneys can search by key word o

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  • May 4, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Dirty Companies For Sale

    Halliburton Inc. announced this year that it is seeking a buyer for its Kellogg Brown & Root Inc., engineering business. The name may ring a bell for a number of reasons. KBR can't stay of

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