• April 10, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Litigation vs. mediation

    Less than a year ago, the Alaskan village of Kivalina filed suit in a federal court in California, seeking damages because the residents claim they are being forced to relocate because of flo

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  • May 10, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    Bankruptcy Boom Helps Land Texas Firms on Deals Lists

    Bankruptcy work fueled many Texas firms in 2009, and it also helped a record number of them earn a spot on The American Lawyer's Corporate Scorecard 2010, which ranks firms in several area

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  • July 16, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Numerous Firms Counsel Parties In Two Resinsurance Transactions Validus Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based reinsurance company, has reached an agreement to buy IPC Holdings

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  • February 13, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Texas firm obtains big settlement for investors

    When Morgan Stanley released its third-quarter report in Novem­ber, it chose to make an unusual disclosure to its investors: The bank had received a letter from Gibbs & Bruns.

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  • January 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Northeast Utilities / NSTAR Northeast Utilities agreed to buy rival New England electric power producer NSTAR for $4.2 billion in stock and $2.5 billion in assumed debt on October

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  • October 10, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Fried Frank Launches Shanghai Office Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has opened an office in Shanghai. It is the New York firm's second Asian office after Hong Kong

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  • February 20, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    New Partners Yearbook 2006

    Editor's Note Once again, we present the vanguard of leadership of the New Jersey legal community: 178 newly minted partners who accepted our invitation to be featured in this,

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  • June 22, 2009 | National Law Journal

    D.C. Calendar of Events

    Monday, June 22 Legal Ethics: The D.C. Bar's Adminis­trative Law and Agency Practice; Cor­po­ration, Finance and Securities Law; Courts, L

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  • October 5, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

    In-House Texas: New Deals

    DELL INC. ACQUISITION OF PEROT SYSTEMS CORP. Lawrence Tu, senior vice president and general counsel of Dell Inc., is using Vinson & Elkins for the Round Rock computer-maker's pending p

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  • June 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    New Business

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