Law Firms

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

In a downturn, business people like to point out, some truths are laid bare. “You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out,” Warren Buffett famously told investors in a 2002 letter. Which is why, after the 2000 dot-com crash, it was the United Kingdom’s elite law firms that were found

Less than a week before its October term is set to begin, the US Supreme Court became a spectacle of sound and fury on Wednesday over a landmark decision handed down three months ago declaring that the death penalty for child rapists is cruel and unusual punishment. At issue was whether the high court would

The Jones Day law firm is suing an Internet site for mentioning the firm without permisson — a case that rankles First Amendment experts and challenges an underpinning of the World Wide Web. The Cleveland-based firm claims BlockShopper.com violated trademark law by reporting that two Jones Day lawyers had bought condos in Chicago. BlockShopper can’t