• December 13, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    DiFiore to Chair Joint Commission on Public Ethics

    Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore has been named by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo as chairwoman of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the state's new ethics-in-government agency./p

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  • February 3, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Zager Jumps to Akin Gump; Brobeck's Survival Unlikely

    Less than a day before partners in San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison were informed the firm likely will wind down its operations in the wake of a failed merger attempt, high-profile

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  • May 15, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Keeping Tabs On Productivity

    A partner's away on vacation, so his secretary is kicking back a bit: arriving late and taking extended lunch breaks. But is working at a leisurely pace bad? Or is there a better way to manag

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  • February 1, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Trading Firm Wins Review From SEC

    A securities firm barred from the New York Stock Exchange for illegally "flipping" stocks has the right to review by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of

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  • August 10, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Duane Morris Names Chief Diversity Officer

    Duane Morris yesterday named Nolan Atkinson Jr. as the firm's first chief diversity officer. Leading diversity efforts is not something new to Atkinson, who was the founding chai

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  • April 3, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Columbia and NYU Take Rivalry Out on the Court

    The rivalry between Columbia Law School and New York University School of Law took on a new dimension Tuesday night, as teams from both schools fought on the basketball court in the first annual De

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  • January 31, 2011 | Bloomberg

    FCIC report is a clip job

    To get to the heart of what went wrong with the report released recently by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, check out its account on page 254 of how the largest investor in a cash fu

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  • October 1, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    NEWS IN BRIEF

    Reed Smith Gives Jordan Second TermAfter a first term that included restructuring firm management, increasing profits per partner by almost $200,000 and spearheading a merger wi

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  • May 2, 2005 | The Recorder

    Microsoft's Second Chance

    Microsoft Corp. has been given another chance to prove it did not infringe a University of California patent covering Web browser technology, which could allow the software company to sidestep

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  • October 10, 2005 | Daily Report Online

    'Unpredictable' Judge Running Delta Case

    When Judge Prudence C. Beatty walked into her courtroom, she turned to glare at the standing-room-only crowd assembled for a hearing on Delta Air Lines' bankruptcy reorganization. She

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