Filter This View

  • September 12, 2011 | The Recorder

    Herma Hill Kay, UC-Berkeley School of Law

    Herma Hill Kay will be the first to say she's had a charmed career. The UC-Berkeley School of Law professor graduated third in her law class at University of Chicago in the late 1950s and cl

    1 minute read

  • January 18, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Law Firm, E-Discovery Vendor Settle Lawsuits Almost as soon as it began, the legal battle between Sullivan & Cromwell and Electronic Evidence Discovery Inc. (EED) has ended

    1 minute read

  • March 17, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Bear Stearns Sale Signals Trouble for Law Firms

    JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s acquisition of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. on Sunday for $236 million could add to the troubles of everal law firms already hit hard by the credit crunch.Th

    1 minute read

  • January 8, 2009 | The Recorder

    The Year That Was: Fewer Deals for Fewer Dollars

    It was a down year for deal lawyers. Law firms worked on fewer M&A deals worth less money in 2008 than in the year before. So, the law firms that came out on top of the M&A deal rank

    1 minute read

  • February 13, 2012 | International

    Will U.S. Law Firms Head Down Under?

    With all the British firms--and now a Chinese one--pairing up with Australian firms, it's natural to wonder when the Americans are going to get in the game. Perhaps soon. A source at C

    1 minute read

  • October 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The Payment Paradox

    The conventional wisdom is that M&A is in the tank, and that deal lawyers are wondering if they'll be able to pay the mortgage on the second house. Reality is a little more complicat

    1 minute read

  • August 10, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    JPMorgan Stirs Pot in Billion-Dollar WaMu Litigation

    With $10 billion and its honor at stake, it's no wonder JPMorgan Chase and its lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell are scratching and clawing in the litigation over JPMorgan's fire sale acquisition of

    1 minute read

  • March 12, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Will NY BigLaw Boss Be Helping Obama Save Our Bacon?

    Is Sullivan & Cromwell chairman H. Rodgin Cohen headed to Washington?Recent reports touting Cohen as the likely No. 2 at the Treasury Department haven't escaped our notice.Last week after

    1 minute read

  • April 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Suddenly, Last Summer

    Dealmaking in 2007 had a distinctly Jekyll-and-Hyde feel. Up to mid-summer, the deal environment was as crowded and frothy as the morning rush at a Times Square Starbucks. Private equity buyer

    1 minute read

  • January 26, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Merger Surge

    Powerhouse New York law firms were at the center of the action as mergers and acquisitions activity surged last year. More than half of the 25 firms on Thomson Financial's annual list

    1 minute read