If any period might have broken O’Melveny & Myers’ litigation hot streak—the firm has been a perennial Litigation Department of the Year honoree—this might have been it. Two years ago, O’Melveny was in a rocky management transition, suffering from “faltering profits and partner departures,” as we put it in a December 2011 story ["A Fresh Start"] that opened with a suitably bleak scene: the funeral of O’Melveny stalwart and former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
Never fear. The streak continues. O’Melveny’s marquee practice, it turns out, was more than resilient enough to shrug off those distractions and return the firm to the finalists’ circle. And it did so in a way that a traditionalist like Christopher would have appreciated: with stunning wins for some of the firm’s most important clients.
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