• September 27, 2017 | The American Lawyer

    Law Firm Mergers Keep Record Pace in Third Quarter

    The record for mergers set in a year, 91 in 2015, will fall this year if there are 16 combinations in the fourth quarter. The last time there were fewer than 16 mergers in a fourth quarter was 2010, according to data compiled by legal consultancy Altman Weil. Last year there were 25 tie-ups toward years' end.

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  • September 26, 2017 | National Law Journal

    The 2017 Winning Litigators

    The lawyers in our 2017 special report scored big victories for their clients in high-stakes cases.

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  • September 26, 2017 | New York Law Journal

    21st Annual Abely Awards Honorees

    The 21st Annual Abely Awards were presented Monday by Sanctuary for Families Center for Battered Women's Legal Services at the offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell.

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  • September 25, 2017 | National Law Journal

    Weil, Gotshal & Manges

    2017 NLJ Winning Litigator: Diane Sullivan, Weil, Gotshal & Manges

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  • September 21, 2017 | The American Lawyer

    The Best Big Law Firms for Summer Associates

    In our annual Summer Associates Survey, Foley Hoag and Duane Morris tie for first place.

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  • September 19, 2017 | The American Lawyer

    Four Big Law Firms Grab Roles on Toys 'R' Us Bankruptcy

    From bikes to trains to video games, a quartet of large law firms led by Kirkland & Ellis is advising on the Chapter 11 case of toy retail giant Toys “R” Us Inc., which became the latest in a string of struggling brick-and-mortar retailers to file for bankruptcy this year.

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  • September 14, 2017 | The Recorder

    The Recorder Names the 2017 Corporate Departments of the Year

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has taken home the overall prize in The Recorder's Corporate Department of the Year contest, which honors firms whose California lawyers worked on the biggest, most complex and trendsetting deals this past year. Sidley Austin and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, which both worked on blockbuster deals of their own, have been named finalists in the overall competition.

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  • Roth v. Plikaytis

    Publication Date: 2017-09-14
    Practice Area: Evidence | Litigation | Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Legal Services
    Date Filed: 2017-09-13
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hamilton & McInnis, Ben-Thomas Hamilton, and Kristine S. Stcynske for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: McMillan Law Firm and Scott A. McMillan for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. D070484

    Trial court erred in refusing to considered previously filed materials incorporated by reference in attorney fee motion (Dato, J.)

  • September 6, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Latest Law Firm Combinations Show Method to Merger Madness

    When Philadelphia-based Ballard Spahr and Saul Ewing (now Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr) both announced significant mergers Tuesday with Midwestern firms of about 150 lawyers, the deals had more in common than timing and geography. Both highlight themes that have been propelling widespread consolidation in the industry, observers said.

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  • September 1, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

    Rising Star: David B. Gail

    An associate in Weil's Corporate Department, David has been involved in some of the state's and nation's most prominent and complex transactions.

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