• May 10, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Holy nonequity partners!

    Last year, as law firms struggled with the brutal realities of the recession, many managing partners took the tried-and-true approach to cutting costs--layoffs. At The Am Law 100, the hardest

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  • January 4, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Video Game Industry Scores Attorney Fees

    After obtaining court victories in several states against bans on video games deemed violent or sexually explicit, the industry is running up the score by collecting $1.5 million in attorney fe

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  • February 4, 2002 | Legal Times

    Why Bush Won't Let Go

    The showdown between the White House and the General Accounting Office over records related to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force may be the Bush administration's most high-profil

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  • October 3, 2005 | National Law Journal

    David A. Savner, General Dynamics

    Name and title: David A. Savner, senior vice president and general counsel, secretary to the corporation and board of directors Age: 61 Defense, defense, defense: General

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  • August 25, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    NY Firms Handling Billion Dollar Deals

    Seven Firms Handle HP's $10 Billion Autonomy Purchase Looking to expand its software business, technology giant Hewlett-Packard has agreed to purchase B

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  • February 9, 2004 | Legal Times

    Rocky Path for Gay Rights Cases Despite 'Lawrence'

    The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Feb. 4 reaffirmation of its ruling in favor of same-sex marriage touched off a new wave of celebration among civil rights advocates that began

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  • February 18, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Letters for Lerach rolled in

    LOS ANGELES � Of the more than 150 letters requesting that a federal judge grant leniency to securities plaintiffs' lawyer William S. Lerach last week, most come from some of the nation'

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  • July 3, 2006 | Legal Times

    Honors and Appointments

    AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE PRO-BONO ATTORNEY OF THE YEARTefft Smith, a senior partner at Kirkland & Ellis, was named Pro-Bono Attorney of the Year

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  • December 6, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Judge Orders Review of WorldCom-Related Fees

    In a strongly worded order, Southern District Judge Jed Rakoff, has barred telecommunications giant MCI from making additional payments to the law, accounting and consulting firms guiding it t

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  • April 27, 2009 | Legal Times

    Service Interruption

    During arguments last week in Comcast v. FCC, lawyers for cable companies asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to vacate a cap imposed by the Federal Commu

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