A mergers and acquisitions partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft describes a hectic four days working on pharmaceutical maker Pfizer’s $68 billion buyout of Wyeth.
Most of the remaining lawyers in a New York intellectual property boutique that has been dwindling for the past two years are at least thinking about joining Locke Lord Bissell…
Local practitioners are still stunned over news earlier this month that two prominent Fort Lauderdale, Fla., lawyers, Michael McNerney and Anthony Livoti Jr., are now defendants in a federal criminal…
Although passengers on a US Airways jet that crash-landed on the Hudson River a week ago were remarkably calm about trying to escape from the plane, it didn’t look good…
Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme run under the guise of a hedge fund is the most complex financial web the Securities Investor Protection Corp. has ever had to…
Three Washington, D.C., law firms are in a good position to weather the economic downturn, making them good places for job-hopping lawyers as lateral recruiting season heats up.
The chairman of the Chicago-based Jenner & Block law firm has been nominated to serve as the court-appointed examiner in the record-breaking Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in progress in federal court…
An insurance company for a Nevada law firm has agreed to pay $6.2 million to settle litigation claiming that by preparing financial documents, attorney David Garcia and his law firm…
A former partner at the dissolved law firm Thacher Proffitt & Wood says there is “a lot of bitterness and anger” directed at former managers of the law firm.
Law firms and lawyers have donated $2.5 million to inaugural festivities for Barack Obama, the second-biggest source of donations behind the securities and investment industry.
Two registered nurses who blew the whistle on an alleged Medicare fraud by a major hospice provider have sparked a record $24.7 million settlement with the U.S. government by their…
A New York real estate lawyer who reportedly didn’t file personal state income tax returns between 2001 and 2006 has been fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor tax…
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