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  • October 7, 2002 | Legal Times

    N.J. Senate Case Tests Reach of 'Bush v. Gore'

    [Editor's note: The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to intervene in the election dispute.]Nearly from the beginning of last week's fast-moving electoral train wreck in the New

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  • October 18, 2004 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    DECONSTRUCTION BAR FINDS MEANING IN DERRIDA DEATHWhen the mind that launched 1,000 reactionary academic tracts died last week, at least a few local attorneys took note. One migh

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  • September 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    CENTOCOR ET AL. V. ABBOTT LABS In the largest patent verdict in U.S. history, on June 29 a federal jury in Mar

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  • January 10, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Prominent Law Firms Move to Limit Liability

    In a sign of increased caution in the post-Enron world, two of New York's most prominent law firms have elected to become limited liability partnerships.Sullivan & Cromwell and Pau

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  • December 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Northeast / NSTAR Northeast Utilities agreed to buy rival New England electric power producer

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  • September 20, 2000 |

    Financial Reform Bill Has Limited Impact

    Nearly a year has passed since Congress tore down the barriers separating the banking, securities and insurance industries, but so far the results have been far more limited than many observer

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  • April 5, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Zell Takes Tribune Private In $8.2 Billion Two-Part Deal A group led by Chicago real estate billionaire and former lawyer, Samuel Zell, has entered into an agreement with Tribun

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  • August 9, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Where Have All the Securities Class Actions Gone?

    The era was marked by mysterious envelopes. When opened, the official-looking documents inside informed the reader that, because he owned three shares of, say, Microsoft Corp. stock some years

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  • November 16, 2001 | Corporate Counsel

    The Kindest Cut

    Last year, Fortune magazine ranked high-flying online broker The Charles Schwab Corporation as one of the top five places in America to work. A year later, the discount broker is

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  • December 28, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Big Firm Defectors Claim Risk of Starting Boutique Is Paying Off

    A recession may not seem like the perfect environment for starting a new law business, but with clients under pressure to manage costs and large firms favoring institutional clients in potential co

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