A key partner at Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps won’t be joining his colleagues if the firm completes a potential merger with McKenna Long & Aldridge.
Forget cherry-picking one-off partners and laterals. In 2011, several Pennsylvania law firms launched new practice groups and opened offices by poaching entire practice groups and acquiring small firms. The growth…
The law firms of Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps and McKenna Long & Aldridge voted on a potential merger late last week, but there is still no official deal.
While they are more than some ordinary workers make annually, the year-end bonuses for associates just announced by Cravath Swaine & Moore show that mergers and acquisition work isn’t booming,…
Two former shareholders in the Mississippi law firm Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis claim in a lawsuit that seven of their one-time colleagues treated them unfairly in an effort to…
Peter Mullen, a New York lawyer who worked with Joseph H. Flom for many years to build Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom into a powerhouse megafirm, died Saturday of…
Saying that a special committee used “a series of economic contortions” to justify a Delaware corporation’s plan to pay a premium $3.1 billion price to purchase a company owned by…
I just saw the movie Moneyball, profiling how Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A’s, built a competitive team despite a payroll one-fourth that of rich teams like the…
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