• January 6, 2012 | Daily Business Review

    Rents climb as apartment vacancies decline to decade low

    U.S. apartment vacancies dropped to a 10-year low in the fourth quarter, allowing for rent increases that are likely to continue this year, Reis Inc. said. The vacancy rate fell to 5.2 perce

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  • July 12, 2006 | Alm

    Two Akin Gump Partners Defect to Powell Goldstein

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld took a hit Tuesday when two partners and at least 11 staff attorneys and paralegals in its real estate and finance practice defected to Powell Goldstein. br

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  • February 4, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    The Sorgente Group has an-nounced its purchase of a majority interest in the Flatiron Building at 175 Fifth Ave. The Italian real estate investment company, which also has a

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  • June 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    No Place to Hide

    Much like their Am Law 100 counterparts, Second Hundred firms struggled in 2009 under the twin burdens of decreased transactional work and increased client sensitivity to litigation co

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  • January 4, 2010 | Focus Europe

    The Declaration of Independents

    Don't go to the offices of Garrigues, the largest firm in Spain, looking for tales of woe from the recession. In October, Garrigues, which has just over 2,000 attorneys worldwide, announced that fo

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  • July 6, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Shearman Delays Start Date for Deferred Associates Shearman & Sterling has further delayed the start dates for some of its already deferred associates into early 201

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  • July 8, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Malpractice Claims Against Law Firms On the Rise, Driven by Bad Economy

    Law firms are being hit with significantly more malpractice claims in 2011 than they were in 2010, according to a new survey of insurers that specialize in legal malpractice coverage. The sputterin

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  • November 25, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Seyfarth Shaw adds 14 business service attorneys from defunct Thelen

    CHICAGO — Seyfarth Shaw has added 14 business services attorneys from Thelen to its New York office as it continues to build up its corporate, finance and real estate practic

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  • March 13, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Paul Hastings, Bingham, Akerman Senterfitt, Tackle NFL Team Deal New York real estate developer and lawyer Stephen M. Ross has purchased 50 percent of the Miami Dolphins franch

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  • August 15, 2013 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: August 15, 2013

    China/Hong Kong Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is advising U.S. auto parts supplier Visteon on the $1.25 billion sale of its stake in a joi

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