• June 17, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Needle will merge with Philadelphia's Ballard Spahr

    After years of vowing to keep his intellectual property boutique independent, William H. Needle said the hypercompetitive local IP market prompted Needle & Rosenberg's decision, announced

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  • October 28, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    For Lone Star Law Grads, There's Good News and Bad News

    Texas' largest firms have hired fewer first-year associates than they did a year ago. But most of those new associates are beginning their jobs this fall — the traditi

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  • August 11, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Federal Judge Sides with Emory, Upholds Patent

    Emory University has won a patent fight with a defunct metro Atlanta biomedical firm and a former corporate officer who is now serving a federal prison sentence for securities fraud. In a

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  • August 6, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    LINN ENERGY TO ACQUIRE OIL AND GAS ASSETS FROM DOMINION RESOURCES Charlene Ripley, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Linn Energy LLC, is using Vi

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  • September 25, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    VerdictSearch

    MEDICAL MALPRACTICE Jury rejects claim that surgeon failed to meet standard of care On Aug. 18, a Harris County jury rejected the malpractice claims of a Houston surgeo

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  • October 4, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    NEW ARRIVALS LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH (Los Angeles): Craig Holden joins the firm's intellectual property, entertainment and

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  • June 24, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Ballard Spahr Associate Honored for Guinean Asylum Case Work

    When Jason A. Leckerman was assigned a pro bono asylum case involving a deaf Guinean refugee, the y

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  • April 28, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Paul Weiss, Sullivan & Cromwell And Davis Polk in Adelphia Deal Bankrupt cable provider Adelphia Communications Corp. agreed last Thursday to split its assets between Ti

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  • April 12, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Calling the play

    Name and title: Richard Karelitz, general counsel, Kraft Group Age: 54 Legal quarterback: Some corporate lawyers are given little Lucite paperweights

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  • September 28, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Michelle C. Replogle has joined McDermott Will & Emery in Houston as an associate with the IP, media and technology department. . . .

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