• March 17, 2006 | The Recorder

    Epic Trade Secrets Fight Not Over

    For the first time in three years, a trade secrets case broke into the list of the nation's top 100 verdicts.Lexar Media Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of flash memory products for

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  • June 27, 2005 | National Law Journal

    N.Y. Blue Cross the latest to become for-profit

    Add New York to the list of states where a nonprofit Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurer has morphed into a for-profit enterprise. The state is the 15th to change since 1994, w

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  • March 16, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    WaMu, JPMorgan agree to $6 billion settlement

    Washington Mutual's estate has reached a proposed settlement with JPMorgan Chase and federal regulators that will result in the return of $4 billion in deposits and nearly $2 billion in other cash

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  • June 12, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    UPDATESJane Wexton joins the New York and Washington offices of Orlando, Fla.-based Akerman Senterfitt as its compliance practices and advisor

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  • September 26, 2011 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    NEW ARRIVALS ADVENT INTERNATIONAL CORP. (Boston): James Westra joins the firm as managing director and chief legal officer, effective Oct

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  • May 1, 2008 |

    Top 50 Under 45

    Lori Lesser, 41 Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Lesser is a leading light of transactional IP. A native of Texas and a graduate of Harvard (economics major,

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  • January 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    And Four More: Honorable Mentions

    BECK, REDDEN & SECREST There are a lot of opposing counsel who probably wish that David Beck of Houston's Beck, Redden & Secrest had stuck with his original pl

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  • May 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Deals in Brief-IPO's

    A healthy IPO market in the first quarter of 2011 allowed private equity firms to take several large portfolio companies public. In addition to the March 10 IPO of HCA Holdin

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  • July 2, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Milbank, Gibson, Davis Polk Counsel Merger of Consultancies In a rare public-private merger of equals, Towers, Perrin, Foster & Crosby struck a deal to join fo

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  • October 27, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Failed Bank Wants Its Money Back

    Last week, Washington Mutual Inc. had its first chance to try to claw back some of the billions of dollars in assets the holding company argues were wrongfully stripped away when the government sei

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