Law Firms

A rising Miami legal star and community activist has quietly agreed to a plea deal in which he has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering in connection with his role as in-house counsel to an indicted billionaire businessman. Few in Miami have known that Richard Simring, a former partner at […]

Taylor Wessing’s embattled French office has lost the majority of its partnership, with 12 non-equity partners resigning to join US firm Nixon Peabody. Eight partners, six of whom six are in the equity, remain at Taylor Wessing France (TWF) after the resignations. TWF and Nixon Peabody are involved in two New York legal battles after

A former Watertown lawyer was convicted yesterday of possessing six Impressionist paintings that he knew were stolen in what is believed to be the largest private art theft in Massachusetts history. After deliberating about three hours, a US District Court jury in Boston found Robert M. Mardirosian guilty of taking the six paintings, which had

A former Marine sergeant facing the first federal civilian prosecution of a military member accused of a war crime says there is much more at stake than his claim of innocence on charges that he killed unarmed detainees in Fallujah, Iraq. In the view of Jose Luis Nazario Jr., U.S. troops may begin to question

Six attorneys rejected from civil service positions at the Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and three other top officials for allegedly violating their rights by taking politics into consideration in the hiring process. The suit is an attempt to hold top officials accountable for the hiring scandal that

As athletes, business executives, politicians, and sports fans gathered in Beijing’s 91,000-seat National Stadium for the opening ceremony of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad on August 8, Debevoise & Plimpton international arbitration partner David Rivkin was there. Rivkin is the only American on the 12-member panel of the Beijing ad hoc division of the

The playing field may not yet be level, but some law firms are getting more women into the game, according to the second annual “Best Law Firms for Women” list published Tuesday by Working Mother magazine. Leading off with the statistic that nearly four of five female associates leave their firms within the first five