• July 14, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Public Interest Projects

    Debevoise Honored for Pro Bono For "extraordinary contributions of legal services" to the poor, the 2006 Pro Bono Publico Award from the American Bar Association will be

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  • September 1, 2008 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    NEW PARTNERS Linklaters (London): Jeffrey Schmidt joins the firm's competition and antitrust practice as partner in the New York off

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  • May 30, 2007 | The Recorder

    Orrick's staffing moves pay off — will other firms follow?

    When Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe announced it would move scores of support staff to a small industrial town in West Virginia, lawyers inside and out were skeptical of the quality of work a

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  • February 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Groupon IPO After months of drama, Groupon, Inc., completed its initial public offering on November 3 and saw its stock rise by almost 40 percent, from an offering price of $20 pe

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  • September 6, 2007 | The Recorder

    Orrick Attorney Puts Activism on Hold to Make Partner

    Virginia Pearcy ran away from home and started college at age 14. She was accepted to law school just four years later. Along with her career as a big-firm associate, she's been at the cente

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  • October 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    One Side of Midnight

    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe partners are slumming it these days. Practice group retreats? Not this year. Flights to meetings? Try videoconferencing. If you need to fly, go by your

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  • December 22, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

    A Year Big Firms Would Just as Soon Forget

    A look back at the business of law in 2008 would replace the mergers and laterals of '06 and '07 with layoffs and meltdowns. The unfettered growth of the past few years slowed at the e

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  • October 18, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    New Positions . . . Jonathan Covin has become a partner in Wick Phillips Gould & Martin in Dallas in the bankruptcy and litigation practice groups. span cl

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  • November 5, 2007 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    ALSTON & BIRDTwo attorneys have joined the financial services group in Alston & Bird's D.C. office. Laura Biddle has joined as counsel. She was previously a

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  • April 22, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Donations from Am Law 200 Sources Help Fuel Weiner's Mayoral Ambitions

    Correction, 4/23/2013, 10:45 a.m. EDT: The original version of this included an incorrect reference to a Nixon Peabody partner who contributed to Anthony Wiener'

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