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22 Oct 2010, 12:20 pm
Former Wilson Sonsini and current Virtual Law Partners lawyer Zack Bogue and his wife hosted President Obama at their California home yesterday for a $30,000-a-plate fundraiser. [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 9:28 am
The parental-rights dispute between Padma Lakshmi and Adam Dell (HT: ATL) just got a whole lot more interesting – and qualified for Law Shucks coverage at the same time. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 2:52 pm
Maybe we’re too prudish about this, but private equity and venture capital are entirely different things to us. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 7:13 am
A recurring theme in the comments has been the extent to which people are moving from BigLaw directly to clients. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 7:31 am
Looks like the move from Simpson Thacher to Blackstone is working out well, at least on the compensation front, for John Finley. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 5:00 pm
Guess Who Bailed Lenny Dykstra Out Of Jail « Dealbreaker – LOL (Spoiler Alert) – Charlie “The Ma” Sheen. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 6:44 am
McDermott Will & Emery dodged a $4.3 million bullet when sanctions against patent litigator Terrence McMahon were reversed on appeal. [read post]
15 May 2010, 10:05 am
We all have them, the Toxic Co-Worker, and there seem to be an unusual number of these types in law firms. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 11:37 am
ABA Journal has the story of every company’s nightmare, the overzealous plaintiffs’ firm that gins up a lawsuit after a stock-price drops. [read post]
6 May 2010, 7:10 am
Legal Week is reporting that Paul-Michael Rebus has resigned from McDermott Will & Emery, where he was the London head of securitization and structured finance. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 8:45 am
Commenter Publius asked this question on one of the previous posts: What exactly is the salary range for in-house counsel? [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 3:40 pm
[Update: Accidentally jumped the gun in the headline - they're engaged, not married] Joe Nocera of the New York Times has been one of the most vocal critics of the HP board’s firing of former CEO Mark Hurd (about whom see: Ousted Tech Execs Have Legal Histories, and, more pruriently, about his accuser: HP Seductress Wanted To Be A Lawyer) Now it turns out there’s another BigLaw angle. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 7:56 am
We’ve been popping up as a source in a couple of scholarly articles lately. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 11:00 am
SRA to cut 80 jobs in preparation for ABSs | The Lawyer – More non BigLaw lawyer and legal-staff layoffs. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 3:59 am
Eve Birnbaum, a former corporate partner at Winston & Strawn and formerly legal director of the corporate practice at Proskauer Rose recently asked “What’s the Best Way to Review Associates? [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 3:00 pm
PepsiCo Names Maura Abeln Smith EVP of Government Affairs, General Counsel and…- – Always interesting when a department as large as Pepsi’s goes outside for a new GC absent a change in CEO. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 6:51 pm
We wrote about all the top-notch lawyers Google used defending its YouTube division against Viacom’s copyright claims. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 2:16 pm
Many a lawyer has dealt with offshore tax havens, or reinsurance, or shipping and has turned a fanciful thought to practicing in the islands of the Caribbean from which this business is conducted. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 10:23 am
Ronald Barusch cites three conventional wisdoms of hostile deals: A staggered board coupled with a poison pill makes a target company effectively bulletproof against hostile attacks; Cash is king in a hostile bid (as opposed to a stock-for-stock deal); and A target’s “just say no” posture is smarter than proposing a counter-offer But his former firm (Skadden) and the takeover-defense gurus at Wachtell are marching to a different drummer in the hotly contested $4.5 billion… [read post]
