• September 25, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Investors Strike Out in RBS Mortgage Securities Case

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit refused on Wednesday to revive claims that the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc misled investors about its subprime exposure. The ruling is a

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  • February 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    U.S. v. Alpha Natural Resources et al. Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., agr eed to pay $209 million on December 6, 2011, to avert criminal and civil char

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  • April 27, 2005 | The Recorder

    Heller Ponders British Invasion

    Barry Levin and Matthew Larrabee, the former and current chairs of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, have long talked of opening a Heller office in Europe -- preferably in the U.K.

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  • March 27, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Anxiety Ripples Through In-House Departments

    Leland Smith, general counsel of Equity Marketing Inc., usually has trouble getting everyone's attention when he's preparing financial statements for his company, which helps other compa

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  • March 11, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Engineer

    COMPANY PROFILEPepper Construction Co. is a Chicago-based commercial construction company that works across a range of markets including retail, health c

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  • April 17, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Panel Denies Wachtler's Bid for Reinstatement Former Chief Judge Sol Wachtler's application for reinstatement to the bar was denied Monday by the Appellate Division, Second Department,

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  • October 22, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

    Dentons and McKenna Long & Aldridge have lost several attorneys in the past week as the two firms head toward a merger vote that, if successful, would unit

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  • June 3, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Thomas classmates doubt '15-cent degree'

    Why couldn't Clarence Thomas get a job with a big-city law firm when he graduated from Yale in 1974 It's not an idle question. That "time of dashed hopes and expectations," as Thomas

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  • January 29, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    People in the News

    Events Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads' diversity committee is set to present "Women in the Military" on Thursday, the second installme

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  • March 1, 2003 | Legaltech News

    Lawyers As Pundits, via Blogs

    WHEN Trent Lott resigned as Senate Republican leader, several political observers attributed his downfall to the criticism leveled at him through a hitherto little-noticed medium: Web logs, or,

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