By Dana Olsen | September 1, 2011
Harry Truman once quipped that the job of the vice president is to "go to weddings and funerals." But that no-heavy-lifting approach went out the window when Walter Mondale t
By Rebecca Geiger | July 1, 2011
The largest recent transactions, all worth at least $500 million, involving targets or acquirors from each of six Asian jurisdictions or regions: China/Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, India, Austr
By Steven Harper | November 23, 2011
The American Lawyer's November cover story tells the sad tale of Jonathan Bristol. One of Bristol's clients, Ken Starr, was a high-profile financial adviser to celebrities. (Starr is no relat
By Matt Leichter | December 6, 2011
Two weeks ago, I used U.S. News and Official Guide data to show that in 2010, 44,245 ABA law school graduates took on $3.6 billion in student loans, a sum that increased from $3.1 billion in
By Joel Stashenko | January 18, 2013
Peter Kiernan, counsel to David Paterson during his brief term as governor from 2008 to 2010, has reluctantly agreed to pay a $3,500 fine for engaging in prohibited contact with state a
By Amy Kolz | December 1, 2008
At 3 p.m. on Friday, September 5, as the Washington, D.C., region was bracing itself for Tropical Storm Hanna, Fannie Mae general counsel Beth Wilkinson was meeting with the country's th
By Steven J. Harper | March 29, 2013
A friend sent me a letter that he received recently from Wake Forest University, where his son is a sophomore. Actually, it came from the university's law school, which was "excited t
By Brian Baxter | January 5, 2012
Just when The Am Law Daily thought the legal news out of South Florida-where strippers allegedly pose as paralegals to entertain drug barons incarcerated in downtown Miami's Federal Detention
By By Julie Triedman | June 1, 2011
In the end it would take Howrey CEO, managing partner, and chair Robert Ruyak two tries to deliver the bad news to his partners. Inside a conference center in suburban Virginia on the aftern
By David Bario | February 1, 2008
By the time this magazine is published, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg may have entered the 2008 presidential race. If so, he shouldn't count on any support from South Carolina pawnshop owne
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