Law Firms

Latham & Watkins has moved into Number 1 position for top grossing law firms according to a report from the American Lawyer, generating $2.6 billion in revenues. The revenue increase is 14 percent more than the previous year. AmLaw’s rankings look at financial metrics including revenues and profits per partner and it moves Lathams into

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID RILEY, former Chief Information Officer of Foundry Networks, Inc. (“Foundry”), a California-based technology company that was acquired by Brocade Communications, Inc. (“Brocade”), in 2008, was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for his participation in an insider trading

Using the “F Bomb” to plead your case is not necessarily the most effective way to persuade a judge to uphold your claim, but for pro se plaintiff Tamah Jada Clark’s $10 billion federal lawsuit that’s exactly what she did in her claim entitled “Notice to f*ck this court and everything it stands for”. Ms

The Comcast takeover of Time Warner Cable might have fallen over, but it has heralded a major boost for Wall Street law giant Cleary Gottlieb, who have leapt to the top of the 2014 rankings for US deals. Cleary Gottlieb have shunted Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Time Warner lawyers for the independent directors