• August 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Dewey, LeBoeuf Agree to Merge

    Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae have agreed to merge, creating a firm of over 1,300 lawyers. Expected to become effective by October, subject to partner approva

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  • May 16, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    G'day, U.S. Law Firms

    Though few U.S. law firms stock vegemite or serve flat white coffee in their cafeterias, they have embraced Australian lawyers in almost every other way. They may soon embrace many more.

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  • December 11, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Two Big Law Firms Eye Windy City

    Ropes & Gray and Proskauer Rose are exploring the possibility of setting up shop in Chicago next year in an effort to bring their private equity practices to a new market, according to sources

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  • May 8, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Court of Appeals Debates Adequacy of Education

    ALBANY — The decade-long battle over funding for New York state's public schools reached the pinnacle yesterday, when two groups of plaintiffs engaged the Court of Appeals in an extraord

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  • May 24, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Same-Sex Partner Denied Visitation

    AN APPELLATE court last week overturned the first ruling in New York to grant child visitation rights in a same-sex partnership.A unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, Second Department

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  • November 13, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Barket Joins Garden City Litigation Boutique Bruce A. Barket, a high-profile Long Island defense attorney, has joined litigation boutique Quadrino Schwartz and will lead

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  • November 17, 2005 | National Law Journal

    MCI's General Counsel Is a Corporate Rescue Worker

    Name and title: Stasia D. Kelly, executive vice president and general counsel Age: 56 Communications colossus: MCI Inc. operates one of the world's large

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  • October 9, 2006 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    BUILD A SOUNDING BOARD, AND IN-HOUSE LAWYERS WILL COMEWhen Jaimee King, senior counsel at Symantec Corp., first went in house in 2004, one of the first things she determined was

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  • March 3, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    N.Y. Summer Associates' Buildable Hours

    High up in the Lipstick Building headquarters of Latham & Watkins last Wednesday, attorneys and administrators from 27 New York firms talked of warm days to come for this year's summer ass

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  • June 1, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Firms Boost Summer Clerk Pay

    New Jersey's bellwether firms are willing to pay more than last year for summer clerks who may ripen into permanent hires. It's not as if the firms have a choice. With first-year assoc

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