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  • February 14, 2005 | Legal Times

    They Might Be Giants

    It began, perhaps appropriately enough, at Arabelle, a romantic Manhattan restaurant best known for its role as a "Sex and the City" set.Mary Cranston, the chair of San Francisco

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  • October 13, 2008 | Legal Times

    Lawyers Writing More Checks for Obama

    The polls aren’t the only thing favoring Sen. Barack Obama: D.C.’s top law firms have given the Democratic presidential nominee more than triple the cash they’ve

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  • February 21, 2006 | Legal Times

    Alito picks clerks

    By Tony Mauro Two of Justice Samuel Alito Jr.'s former law clerks stopped in at his chambers earlier this month to congratulate him on winning confirmation. Alito was so happy

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  • February 14, 2011 | Law.com Corporate

    Former EDNY Chief Benton Campbell Joins Latham's New York Office

    Benton Campbell, a former interim head of the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York, is joining Latham & Watkins as a pa

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  • April 18, 2011 | Law.com Corporate

    The 2012 APPELLATE HOT LIST

    The U.S. Supreme Court arguments over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — Obamacare, if you must — figure prominently in this year's list of hot appellate firms. Scarce

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  • April 6, 2009 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis (Los Angeles): Daniel McIntosh joins the firm as chairman of the corporate practice

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  • June 21, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Justices Reject Climate-Change Suit Brought by States, New York City

    WASHINGTON - A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected an ambitious effort by a number of states and private land trusts to combat climate change through public nuisance lawsuits against ma

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  • April 20, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Global Warming Case Gets Chilly Reception

    WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday threw cold water on the effort by states to attack global warming through litigation against power companies. Seven of the eight justices partic

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  • June 2, 2003 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible

    FIRMS EYE IRAQ WORK AFTER SANCTIONS LIFTWhen the Treasury Department on May 27 lifted nearly all the remaining economic trade sanctions against Iraq, lawyers at many big f

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  • March 14, 2011 | National Law Journal

    For LSC, a 30-year funding rollercoaster

    In 1981, the Legal Services Corp. was on the chopping block. President Ronald Reagan, who viewed its lawyers like burrs under his horses' saddles, called for disbanding it. His appointees to

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