• February 27, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Black Student Convention Sees Big Draw

    This weekend's annual convention of the Northeastern Black Law Students Association is expected to draw some 200 students and 250 lawyers and judges for a series of seminars and networking opp

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  • June 4, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    New Braves' GC Ready to Play Ball

    Greg J. Heller grew up a Chicago Cubs fan. But when the Cubs face the Atlanta Braves, there is no question who he wants to win. "Braves," said Heller, who on May 21 was named the general cou

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  • January 17, 2000 | National Law Journal

    New Firm: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?

    The big five guerrilla attack on the legal profession reached a new level of firepower when a latter-day Tet offensive was launched recently. Having hired 5,000 lawyers to practice tax, constructio

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  • October 22, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Baker & McKenzie Partner Charged With Stock Fraud

    A partner at Baker & McKenzie has been indicted on charges that he participated in a stock fraud scheme that netted two overseas short-sellers $55 million. According to an indictment uns

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  • May 16, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Schiffrin Barroway Helps Secure $2.9 Billion Settlement in Tyco Case

    A nearly $3 billion settlement has been tentatively reached in the Tyco shareholder class action that began some five years ago after former CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski and other top corporate officers

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  • August 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Dewey and LeBoeuf to Merge

    NEW YORK � Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae have agreed to merge, creating a firm of more than 1,300 lawyers.Expected to become effective by October, subject to

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  • August 10, 2000 |

    Regulators to OK AOL-Time Warner

    Federal regulators are on track to complete their review of America Online Inc.'s acquisition of Time Warner Inc. by early fall and have yet to find anything that would cause them to block the deal.

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  • February 15, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    DISTINCTIONS CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE (New York): Stephen S. Madsen, a partner in the litigation department of the firm, ha

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  • February 7, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    ASHFORD HOSPITALITY INC. TO ACQUIRE HOTEL PORTFOLIO David Brooks, general counsel of Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc., is using lawyers from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in the Dal

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  • December 22, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Plaintiff Lawyers Seek $107M in Lucent Case Fees

    In July 2002, after 30 months of litigation, U.S. District Judge Joel Pisano stepped in to mediate the Lucent Technologies Inc. securities class action. The result was his Dec. 12 approval of

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