Solicited within an hour of arriving at his Chicago office Wednesday with multiple firmwide email requests for information on specialized topics in distant locations, a Kirkland & Ellis practice leader…
Saying that Dewey & LeBoeuf was insolvent more than three years prior to its record-breaking bankruptcy in May of 2012, a trustee is seeking to claw back $22 million in…
For years, an Internal Revenue Service rule allowed taxpayers to withdraw assets from a regular or Roth individual retirement account without penalty, so long as the assets were redeposited within…
Four litigators from Frost Brown Todd are opening a new office in Indianapolis as partners of Quarles & Brady, along with another lawyer who formerly was a partner at Krieg…
In the latest development in a massive Ecuador environmental case that has put lawyers who won a $9.5 billion verdict for the plaintiffs under unusual pressure, Patton Boggs has agreed…
An appellate court has upheld a decision shielding American Airlines, United Airlines and the World Trade Center leaseholder from paying environmental cleanup costs relating to the 9/11 attacks in New…
Mayer Brown has withdrawn from a controversial lawsuit that contends a statue honoring “comfort women” interferes with the federal government’s power to conduct foreign policy.
Overall revenue for the country’s 100 largest law firms last year was a record $77.4 billion, generated by about 94,000 attorneys. That represents a 5 percent increase from the previous…
Kirkland & Ellis announced Tuesday that it is opening an office in the midst of Houston’s hot energy-law market. It will be the seventh office in the U.S. and 12th…
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