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  • October 30, 2007 | Legal Times

    Exxon asks Supreme Court to limit $2.5B spill tab

    The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to review the $2.5 billion punitive damage award levied against Exxon Mobil for its role in the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska 18 ye

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  • May 13, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Candidates Line Up for Kagan's Post

    WASHINGTON — Just days after President Obama announced he will nominate Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, speculation is already swirling about who will replace her as solicitor general

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  • March 23, 2012 | Daily Business Review

    Spring bonuses for associates seem unlikely at this point

    By this time last year, Am Law 100 and Second Hundred firms were about halfway through what proved to be a spring bonus bonanza. Twenty-one firms had doled out extra cash payments to t

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  • September 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    APACHE, ECOPETROL & TALISMAN/BP Apache Corporation agreed to pay BP p.l.c. $7 billion for oil and gas assets in Texas, New Mexico, Canada,

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  • July 19, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Lawyers Agree to Mediation in Suit Against Scheck, Firm Attorneys in the malpractice lawsuit against Barry C. Scheck and his firm, Cochran, Neufeld & Scheck, have agreed to

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  • May 11, 2005 | Alm

    Firms Face Sharp Rise in Malpractice Suits

    It's getting more expensive for corporate lawyers to defend themselves. A soon-to-be-released study by the American Bar Association shows that the number of big-ticket suits - those with claim

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  • May 22, 2000 | The Recorder

    Former Stroock Associate Awarded $500,000

    The Los Angeles office of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan must pay an ex-associate $500,000 for defrauding her and breaching an oral contract, a Los Angeles superior court jury decided Frida

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  • August 14, 2008 | Legal Times

    FDA's Top Lawyer Defends Agency Record

    When Daniel Troy finished a controversial three-year stint as the Food and Drug Administration's chief counsel at the end of 2004, Gerald Masoudi was widely viewed as a likely candidate for

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  • May 18, 2006 | The Recorder

    Plaintiffs Keep AT&T Papers on Spy Case

    Tanned and toupeed, it was the ready-for-primetime TV press corps that dominated U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's San Francisco courtroom Wednesday.They filled the benches, staked o

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  • September 17, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Constantine Trela, Jr., of Sidley Austin

    Last Friday, soon after Sidley Austin partner Constantine Trela, Jr., found out that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had a href="http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2009/09/ano

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