Law Firms

It reads like a chapter from a hard-boiled detective novel: Narcotics officer Sean Devlin is working undercover in a neighborhood “tough as a three-dollar steak. Devlin knew. Five years on the beat, nine months with the Strike Force. He’d made fifteen, twenty drug busts in the neighborhood.” But it’s not. This is how U.S. Supreme […]

Slowly but surely, the Supreme Court is creeping into the presidential election debate, with accessories included. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights is offering palm cards for voters telling them how important this election will be to the future of the Court. “If public schools in your community decide to adopt an integrated educational program,

A woman who admitted fabricating a best-selling memoir about surviving the Holocaust as a child by living with wolves has won a court battle with her former publisher. Misha Defonseca’s 1997 book, “Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years,” was translated into 18 languages, made into a feature film in France, and drew interest from

The polls aren’t the only thing favoring Sen. Barack Obama: Washington, D.C.’s top law firms have given the Democratic presidential nominee more than triple the cash they’ve donated to Republican Sen. John McCain. Big D.C. firms typically skew blue, but the divide is even wider than it was four years ago, when Sen. John Kerry

Barack Obama’s money machine is fueled by the likes of Martha Murphy, a grandmother who has donated 104 times for a total of $2,475.34. Murphy has used her credit card to donate in amounts as small as $10. “It is amazing how it adds up,” she said. Obama has revolutionized campaign fundraising, employing the Internet

With public anger reaching a boiling point over plunging stock prices and Wall Street “greed,” white-collar defense attorneys are preparing for an inevitable surge in criminal prosecutions. Stanley S. Arkin, for one, said he expects that the anger, hysteria and economic dislocation fueled by “imprudent credit policies” will “inspire” indictments that would not have been

Former Linklaters managing partner for CEE Jason Mogg will lead the new firm, which will have a close ­association with Linklaters. Mogg revealed that a branding company came up with the firm’s name, deriving Kinstellar from an anagram of Linklaters. “We didn’t set out to have an anagram but we liked the name. We wanted

Law firms have now morphed from facilitators of wealth into grief counselors for the financially stricken or confused. Overnight, it seems, firms are handing out handkerchiefs and setting up virtual information booths to help clients track the latest developments on the financial crisis and bailout. Akin Gump, Bracewell & Giuliani, Fried Frank, Gibson Dunn &

While Yale Law School recently lost several big-name professors, its rival in Cambridge has been expanding aggressively — often directly at Yale’s expense. Harvard’s latest appointments are part of a host of changes under the deanship of Elena Kagan targeted at dispelling stereotypes about Harvard Law School’s low quality of life, large class sizes and