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20 Jan 2012, 11:03 am by lawshucks
Peter Jackson, who looks like the hobbits he’s currently directing, also does some side project passion work advocating, through a documentary, for the release of the West Memphis Three. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 10:52 am by lawshucks
Wachtell’s herculean efforts to keep management in place are legendary. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 1:38 pm by lawshucks
David Kurtz left Skadden almost a decade ago, so this doesn’t qualify for the Lateral Tracker, but we always like to see our former brethren doing well. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 3:26 am by lawshucks
The WSJ is surprised Rob Kindler showed up in a $68 million deal. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 10:23 am by lawshucks
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]
9 Jan 2012, 7:41 pm by lawshucks
A year ago, we wrote that Morgan Stanley’s law department was oddly structured. [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 1:27 pm by lawshucks
We’ve written a number of posts about the BigLaw-NFL connection, ranging from the groundbreaking work firms like Dewey & LeBoeuf and Weil Gotshal have done in creating the free-agency labor framework (including the most-recent litigation) to the league’s hiring of guys like former Patton Boggs partner DeMaurice Smith taking the top job at the players’ association. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 9:13 am by lawshucks
We’re now tracking new partner announcements at the world’s top law firms. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 8:58 am by lawshucks
Partner layoffs are rarely announced, as firms have typically gone to great lengths to protect their own – certainly more so than they did for the associates anyway. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 4:56 am by lawshucks
We are huge fans of Ronald Barusch’s Deal Politik column at the WSJ in which the recently retired Skadden partner explains what goes on behind the scenes in the world of deals. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 6:40 pm by lawshucks
Law-firm layoffs, inhouse layoffs, even government layoffs. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 11:15 am by lawshucks
We’ve been beating this drum for a long time. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 1:16 pm by lawshucks
Call us traditionalists, but we’re starting to think that there needs to be a steroid-free AmLaw 100 ranking. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 2:20 pm by lawshucks
Philip Prothro should be counting his lucky stars. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 7:34 am by lawshucks
When writing memoranda, BigLaw firms usually polish, tweak, revise, and refine to ensure everything is perfect. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 8:43 am by lawshucks
Bettina Plevan (Proskauer Pic) From the WSJ Law Blog: Proskauer Rose has built a reputation as one of the nation’s leading defenders of employment discrimination suits. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 11:12 am by lawshucks
We’re rethinking how we comment on, and direct you to, content around the interwebs about which we have something short to say. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 3:01 pm by lawshucks
…we hope this isn’t you! [read post]