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  • August 6, 2008 | National Law Journal

    2007-2008 DECISIONS

    During its 2007-2008 term, which concluded on June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court issued 67 signed opinions on cases briefed and argued before it. Here are summaries of those decisions

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  • November 11, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Poison Pills Are Drawing More Fire

    Corporate boards today are witnessing an increase in shareholder activism and scrutiny of their corporate governance practices. The number of shareholder proposals seeking to terminate or rest

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  • August 9, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Where Have All the Securities Class Actions Gone?

    The era was marked by mysterious envelopes. When opened, the official-looking documents inside informed the reader that, because he owned three shares of, say, Microsoft Corp. stock some years

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  • February 10, 2003 | Legal Times

    Don't Follow the Money

    Political reality is about to change, and in a dramatic way. Politicians and fund-raisers who violate federal campaign finance law may soon find themselves paraded in handcuffs � the same trea

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  • May 23, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Federal Circuit Eyes Attorney-Client Privilege Waiver in Key Patent Case

    In the specialized arena of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where patent cases now predominate, combatants over a core question of attorney-client privilege have swiftly moved in

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  • March 7, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Cadwalader Partner Joins King & Spalding King & Spalding has added a litigation partner in New York. Michael M. Gordon has joined the firm from Cadwalader, Wicker

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  • January 23, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Stage is set for labor brawl

    Business calls it "Armageddon." Labor says it's "a modest step." The multimillion-dollar ad campaigns are beginning even before a proposal making the most dramatic changes in labor law in dec

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  • June 24, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Ex-Head of Investment Bank's Mortgage Unit Joins Orrick The former head of Goldman Sachs & Co.'s mortgage finance unit has joined Orrick, Herrington &am

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  • April 30, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Gould & Wilkie Will Join With Thompson Hine

    Photo by rick kopsteinMANHATTAN'S Gould & Wilkie, a 19-attorney corporate firm founded in 1892, is set to announce today that it will merge with Cleveland's Thompson Hine LLP, a 370-atto

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  • August 26, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Pataki to Soon Announce Appellate Division Picks Governor George E. Pataki is soon expected to announce his choices for four Appellate Division vacancies � two each in th

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