• September 1, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Acquiring apparel companies

    Name and title: Thomas Pollihan, senior vice president, secretary and general counsel Age: 53 The company: Kellwood Co., a 28,000-employee internatio

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  • October 18, 2004 | Legal Times

    Hiring in a Holding Pattern

    Washington area law firms may have more work coming in these days, but it appears they are using fewer lawyers to do it. The Legal Times 150 survey of the area's largest law offi

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  • July 6, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Kozinski Admonished over Web Site

    The judicial misconduct complaint against Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski over the sexually explicit material found on his family Web pages has been resolved with a pu

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  • September 23, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Antitrust Law Reshaped by Recent Reforms

    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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  • June 7, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Greenberg Traurig: Richard Leher, former executive and head of business affairs for DreamWorks Records, joins the firm's Los Angeles office. A music i

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  • September 26, 2008 | The Recorder

    Struggling Heller Calls it Quits

    After 118 years, San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman will dissolve in a partnership vote today. In a firmwide "all hands" videoconference on Thursday afternoon, C

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  • April 30, 2007 |

    New Edition, Still Essential

    I reviewed the first edition of Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts when it was published in 1999, and enthusiastically recommended it as "an invaluable reference work that

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  • June 8, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Interim U.S. Trustee Named to Permanent Post Diana G. Adams has been named U.S. trustee in charge of monitoring bankruptcy cases filed in New York, Connecticut and Vermont, a po

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  • February 18, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Backdating cases head to settlement

    A significant portion of the stock-options backdating cases have reached preliminary settlements in recent months, with plaintiffs' firms Labaton Sucharow and Coughlin Stoia Gel

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  • June 6, 2011 | National Law Journal

    The next Lloyd Cutler?

    Lawyers who have served as the White House counsel have often been giants of Washington's legal establishment. Think names like Lloyd Cutler, C. Boyden Gray or Abner Mikva. And as the

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