• June 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Clock Runs Out in U.S. Bribery Suit Over Azerbaijan Oil

    The clock has run out on the government's bribery prosecution of two defendants who sought inside deals on the privatization of the Republic of Azerbaijan's oil industry. In a href

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  • October 13, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Google Books: 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 anticompetiti

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  • August 10, 2004 | Alm

    Judge Skeptical of Clifford Deal With Brobeck

    Clifford Chance isn't off the hook yet in litigation that has arisen from the collapse of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison. At a hearing in San Francisco on Friday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judg

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  • February 23, 2004 | Legal Times

    Leaders of the PAC: The Price of Politics

    When Elliott Portnoy joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in 2002 to build the firm's new federal lobbying practice, he believed that a major component of his success would be a flush po

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  • May 5, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Thelen's Profits Up, But Partners Out

    The bicoastal firm Thelen Reid & Priest has a lot to crow about. Fiscal year 2005 saw profits jump by a third, growth unparalleled since the firm was created in a 1998 merger. Both average

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  • October 3, 2011 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    NEW ARRIVALS BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN, CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ: La'Verne Edney joins the firm's products liability and mass tort pra

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  • December 14, 2007 | The Recorder

    EBay IP Guru's Next Step

    Jay Monahan has been blazing trails in the Wild West that is Internet IP law. After eight eventful years as the top intellectual property lawyer at eBay, his new horizon is a video-shari

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  • March 6, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    New partners Kirkland & Ellis (Chicago): Asheesh Goel joins the litigation practice as partner. He was most recently a branch chief at the Securities and Exchange Commissi

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  • September 13, 2007 | Legaltech News

    Recruiting sites that draw thumbs down

    How effectively do law firmsuse their Web sites to recruitsummer associates? Lastmonth, we explored this questionwith a review of some effective andcreative recruiting sites of AmLaw 1

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  • April 9, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Former UBS Banker, Cravath Partner Heads to Linklaters A former Cravath, Swaine & Moore tax partner who left that firm to join UBS AG as an investment b

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