• June 22, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    Women at the Helm

    Career Education Corp. recently hired its first general counsel -- just in time, too. Janice Block, 42, joined the Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based education provider in the midst of a U.S. Securit

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  • March 31, 2003 | The Recorder

    Creative Differences

    While brainstorming ideas for an outlandish new science fiction-western comic book, writers and artists at New York's DC Comics hit on the notion of patterning two key characters after rock an

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  • November 4, 2008 | National Law Journal

    2008 NLJ 250 Chart 1-50

    The NLJ 250

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  • April 8, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    The Brobeck Exodus

    Several firms -- notably Clifford Chance, Dewey Ballantine, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld -- skimmed talent liberally from the foundering Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison before its co

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  • April 16, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    The largest commercial deal so far this year closed last week with the $680 million sale of 650 Madison Ave. to a joint venture of Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. and the Carlyle Group. An

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  • April 16, 2003 | Daily Business Review

    Microsoft to Pay $200M to Resolve Class Action

    In one of the largest antitrust settlements in Florida history, software giant Microsoft has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of Florida consumers

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  • December 25, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    2006 Timeline

    January 2 As of the Texas Secretary of State's deadline to file for a political office, six lawyers have announced their intention to seek the Dallas County district att

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  • September 17, 2007 | Legal Times

    Ex-partner sues firm for millions

    IN MYTH, King Midas is noted for his ability to turn everything he touches into For attorney Douglas Rosenthal, the problem appears to be that what he touches turns into someone else's

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  • April 2, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    THEFEDERAL law giving privacy protection to medical records has been seven years in the making. Plenty of time, one would think, to get ready for it.Yet with the deadline now just arou

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  • September 10, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Tenet Wins 11th Circuit Appeal in RICO Case

    The hospital chain operator Tenet Healthcare has dished out hundreds of millions of dollars to settle investigatio

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