• July 1, 2011 | Focus Europe

    Arbitration Scorecard: Contract Disputes

    A listing of contract arbitrations active in 2009-10 in which at least $500 million was at stake. Correction, 6/30/11: Due to a datab

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  • December 3, 2002 | Corporate Counsel

    In re Simon II Smokers' Class Action

    Years after concluding their historic settlement with state attorneys general, cigarette makers are still steeped in a thick cloud of litigation. Brooklyn, New York, federal judge Jack Weinste

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  • February 17, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Agency Says Judge Should Be Admonished Over Campaign The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended that a Rensselaer County judge who made improper c

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  • August 22, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    After Judge's Order, Uncertainty in TD Bank Law Dept.

    In the wake of Judge Marcia Cooke’s recent sanctions against TD Bank and outside counsel Greenberg Traurig for d

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  • July 29, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Coors Merger Involves Weil Gotshal, Simpson Thacher, Shearman & SterlingAdolph Coors Co. and Molson Inc. announced a merger of equals July 22 to create the wor

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  • October 17, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Clifford Chance Loses Four Partners to Weil Gotshal

    As senior partners at London-based Clifford Chance debate whether or not star American lawyers should be able to earn far more than their British counterparts, the firm's highest-paid U.S. par

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  • June 3, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Higher Score to Pass N.Y. Bar Brings Fight

    As New York prepares to raise the bar exam's minimum passing score in July, the president of the New York State Bar Association criticized the 15-point change in front of a legislative committ

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  • October 28, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Shearman & Sterling, Jones Day Advise in Steel Company Merger Dutch steelmaker lspat International NV announced a deal Monday to acquire LNM Holdings NV for $1

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  • December 21, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    'Blood Drive' Donors

    The following firms have contributed a total of more than $9 million to a special fund for The Legal Aid Society to settle its financial obligations. The "Blood Drive" as it has been dubbed, i

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  • July 28, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firms Joining the Drive to Go Green

    Not for nothing are law firms in New York and across the country finally stepping up in a big way to the "a target="new" href="http://www.abanet.org/environ/climatechallenge/overview.shtml"

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