• April 16, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Headhunters Beware: It`s A Jungle Out There

    In 1985, a Pepper Hamilton partner abandoned the practice of law for the fledgling legal headhunter business. Roughly 17 years later, Michael Coleman has an established company in an established bu

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  • July 29, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Hynes to Seek Death Penalty for Double MurderBrooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes said yesterday he will seek the death penalty for Larry Smith, who is charged with murde

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  • May 31, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Societal and Professional Needs Top New Bar Leader`s Agenda

    Lorraine Power Tharp, of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, is the new president of the New York State Bar Association."One of the issues I want to take a look at this year is diversity [in the

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  • February 3, 2003 | The Recorder

    Skjerven Morrill Disbands

    For the second time in less than a week, a Bay Area technology law firm is dissolving: Partners at Skjerven Morrill have voted to disband the firm.According to a partner inside the fir

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  • September 20, 2006 | The Recorder

    Hewlett-Packard GC Baskins Hires Arguedas

    The combined weight of investigations by state prosecutors, federal regulators and the Department of Justice has forced lawyers in Hewlett-Packard's boardroom mess to get their own attorneys.

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  • April 11, 2003 |

    Brobeckonomics

    While Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's tangled affairs continue to be sorted out, many have assumed that its fatal attraction to debt triggered its downfall, and have pointed the finger at fo

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  • December 2, 2005 | The Recorder

    Will Idea of 'Air Time' for Attorneys Take Off?

    When plaintiffs attorney Reed Kathrein agreed to be interviewed on a program that's piped through passenger headsets on some of America's largest airlines, he didn't balk at shelling out sever

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  • March 18, 2003 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Finds Firm to Help Defend Suit

    Although defunct and indebted, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison found a firm willing to represent it, at least temporarily, in litigation over its hiring of two lateral partners in 1995.

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  • February 26, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

    City Not Liable in Schieber Murder, Federal Jury Says

    A federal jury said yesterday that the city of Philadelphia is not liable for the murder of Shannon Schieber, the 23-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate student who was killed in 1998

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  • March 13, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Mergers & Acquisitions

    Prudential To Buy Allstate Unit Prudential Financial Inc. of Newark announced last Wednesday it would buy the variable annuity business of Allstate Corp. of Northb

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