• October 30, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Lawyers, Courts Grapple With Work During Storm

    Law firms and the courts scrambled this morning to keep employees safe and to maintain some semblance of normal operations as waters lapped over Manhattan sea walls. Courts and some firms clo

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  • April 11, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    Firm promotions Latham & Watkins: Six attorneys, previously of counsel to the firm, have been elected to the partnership: Matteo Bay (global antitrust and competition),

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  • November 7, 2011 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS BRACEWELL & GIULIANI (Houston): Jonathan Spivey joins the firm's intellectual property litigation practice as partner in the H

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  • September 28, 2010 | The Recorder

    Public Finance Practices Stay Busy Through Recession

    SAN FRANCISCO — Roger Davis' billable hours may not show it, but the financial crisis has transformed his practice. The head of public finance at Orrick, Herrington &a

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  • August 26, 2009 | The Recorder

    Virtual (Law Firm) Reality

    In June, Virtual Law Partners got a new client. Cloudmach Inc. is a software company incorporated in Delaware and based in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was brought to the firm by partner Gerry Murfit

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  • September 26, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firm Partnership Law

    "Who do you think is next?"1 "There is not a firm in the city that's not terrified . . . ."2 &qu

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  • December 9, 2008 |

    Bringing It All Back Home

    Like many in-house lawyers, Shannon Dwyer, general counsel at St. Joseph Health System in the Southern California city of Orange, has been gearing up for the 2010 budgeting cycle. The $4

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  • March 6, 2006 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCOPenny DeFrank has joined Major, Lindsey & Africa as regional operations manager for the western region. DeFrank previously worked as director of a

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  • January 14, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Cadwalader casualty of subprime crisis

    Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's Jan. 10 decision to dump 35 attorneys from its capital markets practice is the latest attorney castoff stemming from the subprime mortgage mess. T

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  • November 25, 2008 | National Law Journal

    How Firms Cope

    LOS ANGELES — On a recent Monday, Nimish Patel walked into the offices of five of his associates to deliver the bad news: They were laid off. His Los Angeles law

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