• November 20, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Dealmaker of the Week: Matthew Layton of Clifford Chance

    THE DEALMAKER Matthew Layton, 51, a partner in Clifford Chance's London office and the global head of the firm's corporate practice. THE DEALS Citigroup's sale, in two se

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  • September 10, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    United They Stood: Beating the Biggest Criminal Environmental Case

    Elbow room was scarce at the defense table when W.R. Grace & Co. and several former executives stood trial this spring. p

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  • May 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Schoolhouse Rock

    When David Schizer was a first-year associate at New York's Davis Polk & Wardwell, he remembers being asked to mark up a stock purchase agreement. "I said I was happy to do it," he recalls, "but t

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  • July 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Pro Bono Scorecard 2008: The Pros

    When Steven Schulman heard that Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic needed volunteers to help develop a case charging the former president of Bolivia with crimes again

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  • July 1, 2013 | Focus Europe

    Big Deals

    The largest recent mergers and acquisitions, all worth at least $500 million, involving targets or acquirors from each of six European jurisdictions or regions: United Kingdom, Spain, Italy,

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  • April 12, 2000 |

    If You've Got a Pulse, You've Got a Job

    Law firms want you. Dot-coms want you. Blue chips want you.Consulting firms want you. And, more than ever, they're willing to do whatever it takes to get you in the door. How do you decide?No

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  • July 30, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Financial Reform Keeps Banking Practices Busy

    Regulations for the recently enacted financial reform law are months away, but law firms with strong financial services practices are rolling out the welcome mat for client conferences and filling

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  • November 4, 2008 | National Law Journal

    2008 NLJ 250 Chart 1-50

    The NLJ 250

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  • January 30, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Cadwalader Antitrust Group Joins Skadden Arps Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has recruited top antitrust lawyer Steven Sunshine and most of his practice from Cadwalade

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  • July 14, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Multiple Firms Advise $4.5 Billion Sale of Bankrupt Nortel's Patent Trove Judges in the United States and Canada Monday approved the sale of more than 6,000 Nortel paten

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