Law Firms

Technology and communications companies rank third on the list of U.S. and U.K. industries with the most litigation, according a new survey of manufacturing companies. The survey by the law firm Fulbright & Jaworski, a leading intellectual-property litigator based in New York and Houston, found that the average U.S. manufacturer currently faces 40 lawsuits. Of […]

The federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer’s identity met for three hours Wednesday with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald and his deputies, adjourning for the day without announcing any action. Fitzgerald is known to be putting the finishing touches on a two-year criminal probe that has ensnared President Bush’s top political adviser

Exxon Mobil’s appeal of a $5 billion judgment Alaska jurors levied as punishment for the 1989 Valdez oil spill was heading back to a federal appeals court today. The case, one of America’s longest-running civil disputes, stems from a 1994 decision by an Anchorage jury to award the punitive damages to 34,000 fishermen and other

Milberg Weiss bills itself as the largest contingent-fee plaintiff-side firm involved in securities suits, and it has negotiated well-known settlements for hundreds of millions of dollars with companies including Rite Aid, 3Com, MicroStrategy and Sunbeam. The 35-year-old firm currently represents the lead plaintiff in shareholder suits against Enron and Dynegy. Senior partners on both coasts

The talks broke off July 24 with management at both firms claiming the split was reached by mutual agreement, despite earlier reports that a merger deal could have been finalised by the end of July. Commenting on the split, one senior Orricks partner said “There are always people and egos and politics in these things,

In what is believed to be the largest capital call the City has seen, equity partners will be asked to contribute up to 100 per cent of the value of the capital they have in the firm to ease debt and increase loyalty. Hammonds, which made gross fees of £137m last year, holds £18m in

Radical plans being drawn up by the Commission for Judicial Appointments (CJA), which advises the Government on legal matters, would see all judges up to the level of the High Court being selected by an independent panel of experts, most of whom would be drawn from outside the legal profession. The dramatic move to take

Latham & Watkins has broken the $1bn (£562.4m) revenue barrier — matching the profits of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters along the way — as London’s top law firms prepare to be eclipsed by another record-breaking year for US rivals. The Los Angeles-based giant leads the charge of US firms preparing to announce double-digit growth

Mr. Rosenbaum is a lawyer and a professor at Fordham Law School, but his aim here is to burn down his own house. He proposes a sort of talking cure for the legal system. There is, he says, too much emphasis on money in civil cases and on punishment in criminal ones. The system should