The Am Law Daily

Law firm news, new litigation (which a focus on the firms involved), as well as major federal and state court rulings.

Author: American Lawyer and AmericanLawyer.com staffers post here, including supplements editor Emily Barker, senior reporter Julie Triedman, and staff reporters Amy Kolz, Nate Raymond and Brian Baxter.

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Recent Posts from The Am Law Daily

Canadian Lawyer To Lead Key ABA Panel
Carol Hansell of Toronto's Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg is the first non-American to head the association's corporate governance committee.
Disgraced Detroit Mayor's Legal Team On How The Endgame Unfolded
Winston & Strawn partner Dan Webb and other lawyers for Kwame Kilpatrick discuss how their client wound up taking a plea that removes him from office and sends him to jail.
Skadden, Freshfields Advising on Coke's $2.4 Billion Offer for China's Huiyuan Juice
The two global M&A giants are serving as legal counsel on a proposed acquisition that Bloomberg says would be the largest foreign takeover of a Chinese company. But new Chinese antitrust legislation could complicate matters.
Nixon/Taylor Wessig Partner-Stealing Case Comes to a Head
A judge will rule on dueling motions for summary judgment Monday, but the case got uglier with court filings from both sides on Friday.
THE CHURN: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200
Wilson Sonsini has added former U.S. attorney Elizabeth Peterson to its litigation practice in Palo Alto; and Henry Wang is now managing partner of Dechert's newly opened Beijing office. The churn is constant. Our reports…
The Ball's in Her Court: An Interview with USTA GC Andrea Hirsch
With this year's U.S. Open heading into its ultimate weekend (for the record, The Am Law Daily is a Federer fan), we volleyed with the top lawyer for tennis's U.S. governing body.
THE AM LAW LITIGATION DAILY: SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
Edited by Andrew Longstreth
Litigator of the Week: Bill Lee of WilmerHale
The end of August was good for this Red Sox fan. He and his favorite team both went on a roll.
Litigation Battles? A Weil Associate Gets Ready for a Real War
Okey Onyejekwe, a third-year IP litigation associate in the firm's Silicon Valley office, is about to begin a three-month paid leave of absence from the firm, not for a secondment with a client or working…
Wilson Sonsini Helps Beverly Hills Baker Protect Trademark Treats
The firm's IP wing is aggressively defending a high-end California cupcake chain against rivals allegedly infringing the baker's tasty trademark design: a small dot at the center of each cupcake that comes in different colors…