After three months of talks, Boston-based Ropes & Gray and New York intellectual property firm Fish & Neave have decided to join forces. The leaders of the two firms said Monday that they expect to merge around the end of the year. While 150-lawyer Fish & Neave will be absorbed into the 580-attorney Ropes & […]
Britain’s biggest law firms continue to dominate the world in terms of revenue, despite growing competition from their American counterparts. Four of the top six firms in a definitive new analysis of the world’s leading 100 firms by revenue were British. They are Clifford Chance, which remained the world’s largest firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters,
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
Imagine, on the silver screen, Jack Nicholson poring over a textbook for hours, searching for an obscure election law precedent, dressed in a Land’s End suit and black running shoes, then yammering on a cell phone while driving to a Tallahassee, Fla., courthouse in his Lexus. Perhaps, coming soon to a theater near you: “David
High-profile campaign lawyer Jim Sutton has gotten his old law firm slapped with the biggest ethics fine in San Francisco history – nearly a quarter-million dollars – for failing to properly report the $800,000 donation Pacific Gas and Electric Co. made to help defeat a public power initiative in 2002. San Francisco Ethics Commission director
“With this merger we will be able to say to any corporate client anywhere in the world, ‘There is nothing we can’t assist you with. You will never be able to outgrow us. We will always be able to look after you.’ This will change the legal landscape.” Change the legal landscape? To be sure,
Defense lawyers in the Walt Disney trial on Friday tried to undermine the credibility of a witness who testified that company directors neglected their oversight duties when they hired and later fired the president, Michael S. Ovitz. The witness, Prof. John J. Donohue III of Yale, concluded on Thursday that Disney could have saved $140
Promoters pay radio stations annual fees for advance copies of playlists and bill record companies for each new song played, running up a tab that costs the industry tens of millions of dollars annually. Financial woes and piracy have caused the labels to cut back on such payments. New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
The trials of seven men on Pitcairn Island, the remote Pacific island home to descendants of HMS Bounty mutineers, were drawing to a close Thursday and judges were expected to deliver their verdicts Monday. The cases against the men — two of whom pleaded guilty — have exposed allegations of widespread sex abuse on the
Now that the lazy days of summer are over, attorneys are on the move. Law school students are busy securing top-paying jobs at local firms, recruiting directors are hunting for new associates and experienced practitioners are surveying their options. In hopes of attracting the best and the brightest from the crop of law students who
