• April 30, 2012 | National Law Journal

    D.C. CALENDAR

    Monday, April 30 Negotiation: The District of Columbia Bar presents a "Basic Negotiation Skills Workshop." The program begins at 9:30 a.m. Spe

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  • November 7, 2005 | The Recorder

    Taking Alumni Networks to the Next Level

    More than 500 former and current Latham & Watkins lawyers spent an evening getting acquainted and reacquainted while examining artifacts from King Tut's tomb this summer. The Los Angeles C

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  • September 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Moves: The Sweet Spot

    Jelly Belly Candy Company and its predecessor entities have been serving up sweet treats in some form or other since 1869, when the Goelitz brothers arrived from Germany and bought an ice cre

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  • August 3, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Rumble in the Alley

    When it came time for Silicon Alley-based MaxManager Corp., an online shopping organizer, to hire an outside law firm, chief executive Mordechai Beizer knew who he wanted. "Our very short list

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  • July 13, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Trying Novel Approaches to Create In-House Value

    Law is a business. That’s the gospel according to the in-house law departments and firms that were recognized as 

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  • November 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Buried Alive

    On July 16, when federal district court judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed criminal charges against 13 former KPMG partners indicted in the government's massive tax shelter fraud case, he beamed a b

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  • August 4, 2008 | Legal Times

    Lawyer Makes House Calls

    John Graves is waiting by the door of his studio apartment when attorney Vanessa NesSmith arrives. NesSmith sits down on the bed, the best place from which to share do

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  • October 22, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    The Counsel You Keep

    When William Lytton arrived at scandal-ridden Tyco International Ltd., in September 2002, he faced a ton of work. As the new general counsel, Lytton inherited an internal investigation of the

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  • March 14, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Duane Morris Revenue Grows, PPP Up 3.2 Percent

    Duane Morris saw all-time highs in its gross revenue, profits per equity partner (PPP) and revenue per lawyer (RPL) metrics in 2011, according to firm CEO and Chairman John J. Soroko.

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  • February 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Economy Model

    Daralyn Durie, Mark Lemley, Michael Page, and Ragesh Tangri started kicking the idea around almost 20 years ago, when all four were students at UC Berkeley School of Law. They’d start their o

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