When social networking site Facebook settled a lawsuit with ConnectU, a social networking site Facebook creator Mark Zuckerburg worked on, the terms of the deal were supposed to stay secret. But thanks to one law firm’s overzealous PR department, the $65 million cat is out of the bag. If the law firm of Quinn Emanuel, […]
At law firm Bickel & Brewer, even the mailroom clerks wear suits and ties. Until recently, that might have been considered extreme. But now, power dressing is coming back in style, and the old-school law firm has a new relevance. As law-firm layoffs mount, fear of unemployment appears to be speeding up the resurgence of
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Khuzami is being considered for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s top enforcement position, one source familiar with the matter said on Saturday. The SEC’s new chairman, Mary Schapiro, has been looking for a “tough” prosecutor to restore the agency’s reputation as Wall Street’s top cop and an announcement could come
Anne Pitter practiced with the same group of corporate attorneys for 15 years. They stayed together even as the name on the door changed: Baer Marks & Upham merged into Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, and Brown Raysman merged into Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner. But when Thelen fell apart last fall, Pitter
The trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff’s brokerage plans to hire a British law firm to help in the international hunt for missing investor assets linked to the purported $50 billion fraud. Lovells LLP has been asked to serve as special counsel in foreign proceedings involving Madoff’s international business, according to a U.S. bankruptcy
Well, if Philip K. Howard, founder of Common Good and author of The Death of Common Sense, is right, the very last thing we want to be doing right now is watching as not one but two attorneys fill up all the sock drawers at the White House. In his new book, Life Without Lawyers:
Partners at K & L Gates and Chicago’s Bell Boyd & Lloyd are scheduled to vote Friday on whether to merge their two firms. The firms disclosed their talks in December. If approved, the merger would boost K&L Gates’ head count to 1,950 lawyers and expand its footprint to the Chicago market. It also would
Linklaters, the world’s second-largest law firm, is poised to cut up to 270 jobs because of an unexpectedly sharp fall in revenue caused by the financial crisis. The “magic circle” firm will lose up to 120 associates, or almost 18 per cent of its junior fee-earners in London. As many as 150 support staff could
To a passer-by, the chic clothing store on Mott Street in Manhattan looked like a tumult of activity. On a recent weekday afternoon, Carolyn Bailey, a supervisor, was fussing with the window displays of women’s clothing, shifting piles of perfectly folded sweaters, spacing hangers a finger-width apart, debating avidly on the phone with a higher-up
For years, the law firm Heller Ehrman LLP used a goofy coat of arms inside its offices: a laurel wreath, the scales of justice and a Latin quotation, elvem ipsum etiam vivere. Rough translation: Elvis Lives. In late September, Heller Ehrman went the way of Elvis. Just two years after its most profitable year ever,
