The former chair of Sullivan & Cromwell’s trusts and estates practice rejected suggestions by a prosecutor yesterday that he had divided loyalties when he represented both Brooke Astor and her…
Pittsburgh-based Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott has hired 38 lateral lawyers this year, bringing on five labor lawyers from Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in its latest acquisition.
Management changes may be in the works at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, after President Barack Obama yesterday nominated the firm’s chief executive officer, John Roos, as…
Multimillionaire Brooke Astor confessed to worries about needing the money when she told her lawyer she wanted to sell a painting by Childe Hassam, but she had joked in the…
Two Connecticut personal injury lawyers are suing Google, contending that the Internet search engine improperly sold advertising rights concerning their law firm name to a competitor.
A second New Jersey attorney is facing federal criminal charges in connection with an claimed conspiracy by high-profile criminal defense lawyer Paul Bergin.
A New York appeals court has stayed a malpractice suit against Greenberg Traurig and the chairman of its New York office to allow the facts to be developed first in…
Over defense objections, the former head of trusts and estates at Sullivan & Cromwell testified yesterday about Brooke Astor’s embarrassment over her son’s marriage to a preacher’s ex-wife.
Practicing intellectual property law at Pavia & Harcourt in the 1980s and 1990s offered U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor an early opportunity to demonstrate her legal eagle potential.
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