• February 15, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Blackstone Buys and Spins Off Eight New York City Office Buildings Shortly after acquiring Equity Office Properties Trust, the Blackstone Group LP has begun to take it apart. B

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  • January 1, 2013 | International

    Big Deals

    The largest recent transactions, all worth at least $500 million, involving targets or acquirors from each of six Asian jurisdictions or regions: Greater China, Japan, Southeast A

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  • December 12, 2005 | National Law Journal

    In Brief

    Bingham McCutchen to acquire Swidler Berlin Bingham McCutchen plans to acquire ailing Washington law firm Swidler Berlin by the beginning of next year, a Bingham spokesman

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  • November 18, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Skadden, Wachtell Represent $4.3 Billion Shale Gas Transaction Seeking to expand its resources in shale gas, Chevron Corporation has a definitive agreem

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  • February 1, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals and Suits

    Welsh, Carson Thoma CresseySelect Medical Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe can't get enough of Select Medical Corporation. Seven years ago Welsh, Carson and another private

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  • January 26, 2007 | Alm

    Skadden Arps Follows Simpson Thatcher, Bumps Associate Pay to $160,000

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom said Wednesday it would increase its associate salaries to $160,000, following in the footsteps of New York-based Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

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  • November 24, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Branch offices

    Adams and Reese: New Orleans (107); Birmingham, Ala. (51); Houston (38); Baton Rouge, La. (26); Jackson, Miss. (22); Mobile, Ala. (12); Washington (4)Akerman Senterfitt: Miami (145); O

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  • January 2, 2012 | National Law Journal

    PRO BONO HOTLIST

    Esther Lardent didn't mince words. The pro bono situation — and access to justice for the poor — is "hideous," Lardent, president of the Pro Bono Institute,

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  • May 1, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    10 Firms Hit $2 Million Mark in Partner Profits

    The rich mostly got richer in 2005, as more of the top law firms charted in the AmLaw 100 survey pushed past the $1 million and $2 million marks in terms of profits per partner. A whop

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  • November 30, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Companies Under Fire Often Decide to Settle to End Problems Quickly

    By all accounts, insurance broker Marsh & McLennan seems intent on settling Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's allegations of bid-rigging.The attorney general has accused the company

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