• June 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Real Estate Restructuring Work Proving a Boon to Firms

    Real estate restructuring work, a bandwagon that many firms jumped on in the past year, shows no signs of slowing. More than $1.4 trillion in commercial loans are coming to term in the next four ye

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  • June 25, 2007 | The Recorder

    Cool Jobs: Summer Associates 2007

    This summer, serious seems to be the new fun.Responding to demands for more substantive work, law firms are dishing out more meaningful legal assignments to their summer associates. Th

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  • February 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Jumping Ship

    It was a difficult year for many law firms, but for Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, 2008 was especially challenging. The firm shed 59 partners--

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  • May 14, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Jockeying Begins for Solicitor General Job

    Just days after President Obama announced he will nominate Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, speculation is already swirling about who will replace her as solicitor general, with names includ

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  • January 21, 2003 | Legal Times

    Moving Day Looms for ATF

    The Bush administration faces its first big test this week in what may be the largest government reorganization in U.S. history.The transfer of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, an

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  • July 6, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Appeals Over Patents Skyrocket in 2009

    The economic doldrums may be slowing patent filing work for intellectual property specialists, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's increasingly stingy patent allowance rate is boosting back-

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  • September 19, 2005 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    CHALLENGING CANCER AT HALF DOMEScaling Half Dome, the granite mountain at Yosemite National Park, is an extraordinary achievement for most people.But for Deborah Mosley,

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  • October 28, 2002 | The Recorder

    Plan B For Chiron

    After being handed a defeat by a federal jury, Chiron Corp. has announced plans to resurrect a strategy it had identified earlier in the trial to prove the validity of its patent.A jur

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  • January 8, 2009 | The Recorder

    Our Most Popular Stories of 2008

    We wouldn't want you to be left out. So, in case you missed any of our most-viewed stories of 2008, we're here to help you revisit top reads from the past year. The most popular stories by p

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  • August 20, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Web 2.0 Won't Eat Your Mouse

    "All our steps in creating or absorbing material of the record proceed through one of the senses -- the tactile when we touch keys, the oral when we speak or listen, the visual when we read. Is it

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