• September 21, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Federal Courts May Face Flood of Price-Fixing Actions

    An unlikely marriage between the Department of Justice's amnesty program in price-fixing cases and the recent reform of federal class action law has had an unexpected but profound effect on ci

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  • October 1, 2001 | Corporate Counsel

    Insuring Deep Pockets

    Demutualization. Now there's a good word for hypnotists to use on their subjects -- but only on the right ones. While repeatedly chanting the D-word will make most eyelids droop, its mere ment

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  • December 1, 2000 | Legal Times

    Did Judge's Public Comments on Microsoft Go Too Far?

    With one significant exception, the Microsoft Corp.'s brief in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sticks to typical antitrust matters and technology talk, such as the code

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  • August 16, 2000 | The Recorder

    Arthur Levitt's Cultural Crusade

    Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan has an elegant way to distinguish a liberal from a conservative. He says, "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the

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  • May 30, 2001 |

    Wachovia, First Union Amend Key Provisos

    Merger partners First Union Corp. and Wachovia Corp. were obliged Tuesday to amend key portions of their breakup fee arrangement in order to placate shareholders considering a rival hostile of

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  • July 5, 2000 | New York Law Journal

    High-Tech Issues Focus of ABA Meeting

    The technology of the digital age and its impact on the legal system -- from jurisdictional questions regarding the Internet to the design of an ultra-modern courtroom -- will be on display at

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  • August 6, 2007 | Legaltech News

    Must-See Recruiting Sites Invest in Future

    It's time for the 2007 crop of summerassociates to head back toschool, and for law firms to beginscouting next year's hopefuls. Thatmakes it the perfect time to look at howeffectively large law fir

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  • January 15, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    BNY Pension Case Calls Up Ghosts of Scandals Past

    With Bank of New York Mellon embroiled in multibillion-dollar litigation over mortgage-backed securities, a href="http://www.america

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  • December 31, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Bonus Round

    Scotching hopes raised by the recent uptick in corporate transactions, large New York law firms have declined to increase their year-end associate bonuses, reflecting what several managing par

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  • October 11, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Mergers & Acquisitions

    Paterson's Cytec To Pay $1.8B for UCB's Surface Specialties Division Cytec Industries of West Paterson, a specialty chemicals company, agreed Oct. 1 to pay $1.8 billion for U

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