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  • September 10, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Dewey Takes On 11 IP Lawyers From Brobeck

    New York's Dewey Ballantine announced Monday it had hired 11 intellectual property partners from San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, taking about half of Brobeck's strength in tha

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  • December 6, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Huge IPO Case Hits Big Snag at 2nd Circuit

    A federal appeals court Tuesday vacated class certification in six key cases in the massive litigation over dot-com era initial public offerings -- a potentially devastating setback for plaintiffs

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  • March 29, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    GE overhauls outside counsel roster

    JUST TWO YEARS after some 200 law firms endured the ultimate test of strength and patience for a shot at one of the 140 coveted preferred provider positions at General Electric Company, the l

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  • January 7, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firms Raise $800,000 So Far to Aid South Asians

    New York lawyers are making sizable contributions to the worldwide tsunami disaster relief effort. A survey of relief agencies and law firm officials found at least $800,000 in donatio

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  • February 5, 2007 | Alm

    Merrill Lynch Settles Class Actions Over Internet Companies

    Merrill Lynch has settled three class action lawsuits that claimed it provided misleading analyst research about Internet companies to purchasers of mutual funds.Under the agreement, w

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  • March 19, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    A RULING last week by a New York federal judge could put a damper on the growing number of lawsuits being brought by universities over patent and licensing rights.The decision, Univ

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  • July 19, 2004 | National Law Journal

    M&A deals double up for first half of current year

    The volume of U.S. mergers and acquisitions activity doubled in the first half of 2004, according to Thomson Financial, the business research and information group. The past six

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  • March 11, 2002 | Legal Times

    Did FTC Get Short End of the Stick?

    After an embarrassing false start in January, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice last week unveiled an agreement dividing up antitrust oversight by industry.But some

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  • May 29, 2001 |

    Gray Cary Formalizes Hand-Holding Process

    Silicon Valley law firm Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich is blazing new territory in ancillary consulting work, formalizing the hand-holding law firms do for their entrepreneurial clients thro

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  • January 13, 2006 | Alm

    Attorneys' Bonuses Increase With Profits

    Associates at several big law firms across the country welcomed the new year with hefty bonuses that were moderately higher than the year before, a reflection of the legal industry's recent pr

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