A gay senior associate in the Los Angeles office of New York’s White & Case has sued the firm for sexual harassment and sex discrimination, claiming two male partners created a “intimidating, hostile and offensive work environment” through inappropriate comments and behavior. In a suit filed June 2 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Christopher […]
Last year, Tsan Abrahamson jumped from her post as worldwide IP and licensing counsel at LeapFrog Enterprises Inc. to start her own firm focused on sweepstakes and trademark law. Now she’s getting reinforcements. Katherine Spelman, a partner at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, joined the firm last week, along with Deborah Davis Han, a former
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In the fast-growing, highly lucrative arena of real estate investment trusts, competition among law firms for established REIT practices is cutthroat — and turnabout is fair play. Six weeks after its REIT practice was decimated by the departure of a 10-lawyer team from its Raleigh office, Alston & Bird early this month attempted to raid
Merck & Co. must pay more than $253 million to the family of a Texas man who died after taking the company’s Vioxx painkiller, a jury ruled in the first personal-injury case over the drug to come to trial. Jurors deliberated more than 10 hours in Angleton, Texas, before awarding $24.4 million in actual damages
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, like Sandra Day O’Connor, is polished and popular, with a warm plainspoken style and surprising pluck. When it comes to substance, however, the two have differences that will nudge the divided court to the right if, as expected, Roberts is confirmed to succeed the retiring O’Connor. The differences have been
To understand what makes Skip Brittenham one of the most powerful entertainment attorneys in the country, picture him fly-fishing. Standing thigh-deep in one of his favorite roaring rivers, he knows just how to gauge where the biggest trout will be and which fly will catch its attention. Most important, he knows precisely when to strike.
The wife of a prominent San Francisco Bay Area lawyer was beaten to death over the weekend, and the investigation into her slaying remains “wide open,” a sheriff’s spokesman said Monday. Pamela Vitale, 52, was found dead Saturday evening. Her husband, attorney Daniel Horowitz, 50, reported finding her dead at a trailer where the couple
A Texas court agreed today that a Democratic judge should be removed from Representative Tom Delay’s criminal trial because of the judge’s contributions to Democratic candidates and causes. The decision came this afternoon after several hours of testimony in which Mr. Delay’s lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, said that the contributions by the judge in the case,
The US government used their first witness on Wednesday to make the case that Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, Enron’s former chief executives, were intimately involved in the running of the business and fully aware of its manipulation of earnings. Mark Koenig, former head of investor relations at Enron, told jurors how the energy trading
10.6 percent was the rate of profit growth at Am Law 100 firms in 1999, the last full year of the stock market boom. But the 1.5 percent figure is wrong, too. That was the rate of profit growth at Am Law 100 firms in 1992, the last time the economy languished in the second
