Two longtime Louisiana lawyers have been recommended for disbarment after a disciplinary board found in what a local newspaper described as an “often blistering opinion” that they allowed staff of…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has refused to dismiss a lawsuit by two nonprofit groups seeking recovery of possibly millions of White House e-mails.
A dispute over which party is to blame for losses by holders of debt securities in a failed funeral company has prompted Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to sue…
Speaking at a conference today in New York on the outlook for mergers and acquisitions, a famed attorney dealmaker predicted that one result of the current economic crisis will be…
A memo to clients yesterday from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz discusses lessons that some major investors learned the hard way from the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
A losing party in a business dispute is suing its opponent’s law firm for offering a job to a New Jersey judge before he had distributed his final ruling in…
The first British law firm to report its revenues formally for the first half of the fiscal year managed to see a double-digit gain despite the economic downturn.
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