Following Piper Rudnick’s agreement to acquire San Diego firm Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, DLA and Piper Rudnick are now due to vote on the ‘second leg’ of a strategy to build a world top-10 law firm. The new Piper Rudnick Gray Cary is a 1300-attorney firm. However the addition of DLA would create a […]
It was an embarrassing mistake for famed litigator David Boies, one that turned into what the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called “a lawyer’s nightmare.” Monday, an en banc panel decided 8-3 to give Boies a reprieve. The error — a missed filing deadline — was made by a calendaring clerk at Boies, Schiller
Staying with the outside counsel you know is the theme of Corporate Counsel’s third annual Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies survey. While some in-house lawyers say they are eager to break long-standing ties with firms in exchange for outside counsel with more attractive fee arrangements, most GCs stick with the large firms they know and
A close confidante of the Blairs has appointed the Queen’s solicitors to defend herself from being “hounded” over her private life. Martha Greene, 48, who was revealed by The Sunday Times last week to have helped with the purchase of the Blairs’ £3.6m London house, has been pestered with false allegations that she once had
Sullivan & Cromwell looks set to spark a US pay war after moving to pay a one-off ‘special bonus’ of up to $20,000 to all of its associates. The bonuses will be awarded on 21 October and sees the New York leader offer first-year associates a $10,000 one-off bonus, rising to $20,000 for senior associates.
San Diego-based law firm Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich said yesterday it is negotiating a merger that could create one of the world’s largest law firms by the end of the year. Baltimore-based Piper Rudnick, the nation’s 20th largest law firm, is seeking simultaneous mergers with Gray Cary and London-based DLA, deals that would combine
The quality of a journalist’s notetaking took centre stage in a court case yesterday that will determine whether a City firm can proceed with a £230m libel action against the Financial Times. Lawyers acting for Collins Stewart Tullett, which is suing the FT over an article published in August 2003, tried to persuade Tony Tassell
The Supreme Court’s first case – Act versus MP Donna Awatere Huata – started chaotically yesterday with a shortage of seats leading to some reporters being barred from the opening stages of the historic first sitting. Oddly for a courtroom, the venue for the first real sitting of New Zealand’s replacement for Britain’s Privy Council
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,
Three British bankers facing extradition to the U.S. on Enron Corp.-related fraud charges accused the U.S. government of using the proceedings as a weapon to pressure the men into implicating senior Enron officials in the alleged crimes. David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby were indicted on seven counts of wire fraud by a Houston
