• December 18, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Will More Firms Re-Defer Their Incoming First-Years?

    After Nixon Peabody announced on Tuesday that it would a target="new" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=12024

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  • June 23, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    Bowery Residents Committee (BRC), a not-for-profit organization that serves the homeless and those with addictions, has signed a 33-year lease for a Chelsea property that it plans to turn into a &q

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  • May 16, 2005 | Alm

    Law Firms Face Sharp Rise in Malpractice Suits

    It's getting more expensive for corporate lawyers to defend themselves. A soon-to-be-released study by the American Bar Association shows that the number of big-ticket suits - those w

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  • August 18, 2008 | Legal Times

    Civil Actions

    The following cases were recently filed in the local district courts. This information is provided by the district courts’ official online bulletin boar

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  • June 22, 2009 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS Burner, Smith & Associates (Setauket, N.Y.): Alison Arden Besunder joins the firm as managing partner of the New York office. Besun

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  • November 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Scanning the Future

    It was a tough summer for the Google book search settlement. The proposed deal, which would give Google Inc. the right to scan and display millions of copyrighted books, was lambasted as anticompe

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  • November 14, 2006 | The Recorder

    Win Gets Lawyer Only Fraction of Fees

    It might just be the most expensive phone call never made.Allen Kent, a Corte Madera attorney, ran up more than $250,000 in legal fees defending against inquiries by the state Supreme

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  • April 5, 2010 | National Law Journal

    CALENDAR

    Tuesday, April 6 INVESTOR RIGHTS: Six sections of the District of Columbia Bar present "The SEC's Investor Protection Mission: What Is on the Horizon for the Div

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  • September 29, 2008 | The Recorder

    Heller Starts Dissolution Process

    A day after telling employees that the firm would close its doors, Heller Ehrman has dissolution counsel and a dissolution committee in place, San Francisco Managing Partner Barry Levin

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  • August 13, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Generics Knock Out Eli Lilly ADHD Drug Patent

    Eli Lilly got some tough news Thursday in its three-year-old patent battle with generic manufacturers over the attention deficit hyperactivity drug Strattera. New Jersey federal district court judge D

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