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  • December 1, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Competition Has Law Firms Digging Deeper on Campus

    As law firms sought to bolster and diversify their summer associate programs during the fall recruiting season this year, some of them ventured beyond the list of law schools they usually visit or

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  • September 21, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Strike Blocked

    In a decision of first impression, a federal judge has prevented flight attendants for Northwest Airlines from striking in response to an ongoing labor dispute with their bankrupt employer. b

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  • April 6, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Linklaters Helps DISH Win Auction for Blockbuster

    A bankruptcy auction for movie rental chain Blockbuster ended in the early morning Wednesday with a winning bid of $320 million by satellite broadcaster DISH Network. a target="_blank" href

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  • March 21, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Goodwin Procter (Boston): Alyssa Grikscheit joins the corporate and private equity practices as partner in the firm's New York office. She was previou

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  • May 5, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Outside Counsel

    In its May 2006 decision of eBay Inc. v. MercExchange LLC,1 the U.S. Supreme Court effected a significant shift in the remedies for patent infringement. Coming shortly after

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  • March 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Debevoise Sees Big Decline in Profits, Revenue

    Debevoise & Plimpton on Friday revealed that gross revenue dropped 12 percent and profits per equity partner suffered an even steeper fall l

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  • August 17, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Deferred Prosecutions on Rise in Corporate Bribery Cases

    The revelation in DaimlerChrysler A.G.'s latest earnings report of the extent of its cooperation with federal investigators indicates that the automaker may be seeking to benefit from recent D

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  • September 18, 2006 | Legal Times

    Eleanor Pelta

    As the daughter of Polish Holocaust survivors who came to America in 1952, Eleanor Pelta has an intimate sense of what it means to be an immigrant. That understanding has been a

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  • November 19, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Is Your Default Foreclosable?

    There exist two major theories of mortgage law in the United States: the title theory, in which title to the collateral is transferred to the mortgagee until the debt secured by the mortgage

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  • January 19, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Like many, Mayer Brown weathers the storm

    Mayer Brown has lost at least 15 partners since August, including the co-head of its global restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency group, as the firm prepares to report a double-digit p

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