• October 18, 2004 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    DECONSTRUCTION BAR FINDS MEANING IN DERRIDA DEATHWhen the mind that launched 1,000 reactionary academic tracts died last week, at least a few local attorneys took note. One migh

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  • January 28, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Proximity To Power

    When Professor Ross Sandler launched a breakfast series at New York Law School 10 years ago, he was confident it would become de rigueur with young attorneys for the classic and compelling rea

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  • July 10, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Pro Bono 2008: Bonds for the Poor

    Last November, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe global finance partner Mary Rose Brusewitz flew to Nicaragua to see for herself

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  • June 6, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Panel's Sharply Split Ruling Finds Jury Charge Coercive

    A TRIAL judge's admonition to a deadlocked jury that "the point of the process is to get a result" was coercive and requires a new trial for the defendant charged with selling illegal drugs, a

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  • October 30, 2000 | The Recorder

    Baker's Recipe

    Tall and regal in a tailored suit, Christine Lagarde looks every inch the classic Parisian as she moves through the bustling lobby of the San Francisco Hilton.Colleagues hail the Baker

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  • March 26, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Legal Business Tangles in Latin America

    American companies doing business in Latin America are increasingly running into legal problems.As a result, the governments of Latin America are facing a rapidly growing number of mul

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  • September 22, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Big 5 et al.

    As the debate over multidisciplinary practice (MDP) simmers within the American Bar Association and state bars, Britain will soon debate proposals on MDPs that Big Five lawyers say will send a

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  • April 14, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Nassau Judge Finds 'Right to Renew' Vanity Plate Although motorists do not acquire a property right in a vanity license plate, they have a "substantive right to renew" their app

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  • December 14, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Norton Rose Stakes Claim in Saudi Arabia

    With one-fifth of the world's oil reserves under Saudi Arabia's desert sands, it might seem

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  • August 20, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    Microsoft's Captain Ahab

    Plotting against Microsoft Corporation isn't always easy. But when Washington, D.C., lobbyist Mitchell "Mike" Pettit set out last year to find an author for an anti-Microsoft treatise, the cho

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