Law Firms

Trevor Kennedy’s relationship with disgraced stockbroker Rene Rivkin has cast his name in infamy. Rivkin’s assertion in an interview with a Swiss district attorney that Kennedy held part of a mystery parcel of shares in the controversial Offset Alpine has jeopardised everything. In the public imagination, Kennedy is inextricably linked to Rivkin’s calamitous and bizarre […]

Brandon Villery, 29, a four-year associate at Morrison & Foerster, uses an impressive collection of legal resources, but it’s got nothing to do with the Code of Civil Procedure. It’s also a bit more interesting: Playstation, X-Box and Game Boy Advance, otherwise known as video games. One recent afternoon, Villery gathered in the conference room

There has been a trend among Chinese law firms in the past few years of growing big quickly by acquisition and merger. The trend has been, in part, spurred by China’s accession into the World Trade Organization three years ago, which will allow foreign law firms more opportunities to practise in China. A number of

Pitcairn Island women do not live an idyllic South Pacific life, but one dominated by fear and sexual abuse which saw them raped as young girls by the island’s men, descendents of 18th century Bounty mutineers, a court has heard. “The girls are treated as though they are a sex thing,” a former Pitcairn woman,

Who are the most successful plaintiffs firms in the land? For the first time The American Lawyer has answered that question, identifying the 16 highest-grossing plaintiffs firms in the United States. They are a group diverse in geography–they dot the map from New York to California, Chicago to Florida–and in size. Reaud, Morgan & Quinn

A federal judge has refused to accept a guilty plea from a former America Online employee accused of selling the Internet provider’s customer list to a “spammer,” saying he was unsure a crime had been committed. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein stopped a Tuesday hearing at which Jason Smathers was to plead guilty to conspiracy

Hyatt Corp. heirs Matthew and Liesel Pritzker have settled a family dispute for close to $1 billion, according to attorneys and a source close to the case. The settlement is about half the amount the siblings were seeking in a lawsuit accusing their father and others of looting their trust funds and leaving them out

Riggs Bank pleaded guilty to a criminal violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, a U.S. anti-money laundering law, and agreed to pay $16 million for failing to report suspicious activity in accounts held by former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and Equatorial Guinea officials. In federal court on Thursday, Riggs also agreed to a five-year probation

San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop and Washington, D.C.-based Shaw Pittman announced Wednesday that they intend to merge, creating a 900-lawyer giant with national reach and global ambitions. The two firms signed a letter of intent Monday and said they expect the deal to be ratified by partners in March and finalized by April 4. If that

A defense attorney who investigators say has ties to the New York Mafia is quitting the legal team of reputed Connecticut underboss Anthony Megale, a move that avoids a public hearing on whether there are conflicts of interests in the case. New York attorney Joseph Corozzo was captured on video hobnobbing with Gambino family brass