• December 4, 2012 | International

    SEC Targets China Affiliates of 'Big Four' Accounting Firms

    From the National Law Journal   The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has accused five Chinese a

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  • February 28, 2008 | The Recorder

    The Cal Law 25: Firm by Firm

    LATHAM & WATKINSLatham & Watkins had the most spectacular year of any firm on the list. The 2,000-lawyer behemoth grew revenue by nearly $400 million, or 22 percent, to

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  • In re Century Aluminum Company Securities Litigation

    Publication Date: 2013-01-02
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-01-02
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Susan Illston, District Judge, Presiding Before: Consuelo M. Callahan and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges, and James K. Singleton, Senior District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis M. Gregorek, Betsy C. Manifold, Rachele R. Rickert, and Patrick M. Moran (argued), Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, San Diego, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Bruce A. Ericson, Kevin M. Fong, and Jeffrey S. Jacobi, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendants-Appellees Century Aluminum Company, Logan W. Kruger, John C. Fontaine, Jack E. Thompson, Peter C. Jones, John P. O'Brien, Willy R. Strothotte, Jarl Berntzen, Robert E. Fishman, Catherine Z. Manning, Steve Schneider and Michael A. Bless. Robert P. Varian (argued) and Stephen M. Knaster, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendants-Appellees Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC.

    Case Number: No. 11-15599

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 64 In Re: CENTURY ALUMINUM COMPANY SECURITIES LITIGATION, ERIC PETZSCHKE, individually and on behalf of all ot

  • June 30, 2003 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible

    CHANGING OF THE GUARD AT CIVIL RIGHTS UNITAssistant Attorney General Ralph Boyd, head of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, announced plans las

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  • August 13, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    New Law Spawns Corporate Governance Practice Groups

    In the hours, days and weeks following Congress' approval last month of the sweeping Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform bill, lawyers at the nation's largest law firms scrambled to interpret the

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  • January 2, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Strong Showings

    Our Honorable Mention awards go to 14 litigation departments that showed an impressive array of accomplishments. From handling the fallout from the financial crisis, to containin

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  • February 3, 2003 | Legal Times

    Honor Roll for 2002

    AKIN GUMPAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld announced that two lawyers in its D.C. office -- Paul Mi f and Daniel McInnis -- were elected partner.Mi

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  • September 19, 2008 | The Recorder

    Highlights of Post-Merger Laterals

    We've kept track of more than 100 lawyers who have left Thelen since its late 2006 merger with Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner. The combined firm a href="http://64.233.1

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  • April 3, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Judge Asks Garson's Lawyer to 'Tone It Down' During Cross The attorney for Gerald P. Garson, the ex-Supreme Court judge on trial in Brooklyn for bribery, yesterday attacked the

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  • October 29, 2007 | The Recorder

    UTStarcom's Crash Shows Pitfalls of Doing Business in China

    In the fall of 2003, a group of executives from Alameda, Calif.-based UTStarcom Inc. stopped at a countryside restaurant in Vietnam to celebrate $30 million worth of telecom contracts. "They

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