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April 29, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Debt Loading

When law schools move away from a critical aspect of their professional mission--accurately and completely informing prospective lawyers about the path ahead--the profession itself bears the ultimate consequences.
6 minute read
May 02, 2013 | Law.com

Former Dewey Execs Balk at Ex-Chair Davis's Deal

In filings made Thursday, lawyers representing former Dewey &amp LeBoeuf chief financial officer Joel Sanders and the firm's erstwhile executive director, Stephen DiCarmine, moved to upend a settlement that would protect former chairman Steven Davis against most future claims stemming from his alleged mismanagement of the now-defunct firm.
3 minute read
March 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Math Test

Are law schools inflating their graduate employment statistics? Students at several schools claim they are. A series of suits is forcing the ABA to reexamine its reporting requirements.
12 minute read
September 01, 2004 | The American Lawyer

Valora Has a Secret Code: Automation

Talk about a paper-induced panic attack. In mid-May Judy Ercolini, a senior paralegal at Boston's Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, received 64 banker boxes filled with discovery documents that needed to be coded before an anticipated bankruptcy filing at the end of the month. Coding is the process of creating a database that organizes discovery documents by author, creation date, subject, and other fields.
4 minute read
June 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Willkie Gravitates to $1 Billion Sale of Loral's Satellite Business

Canadian aerospace and information services company MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates Ltd. is buying Loral's satellite manufacturing subsidiary in a deal that expands its U.S. presence. Vancouver firm Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy is advising MDA, with help from Perkins Coie and Kaye Scholer.
3 minute read
March 12, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Real Estate Roundup: Greenberg Traurig Shifting Office Space in California

4 minute read
September 27, 2013 | The American Lawyer

The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

A federal prosecutor in Texas joins Haynes and Boone; Greenberg Traurig adds a lawyer on each coast; and Epstein Becker & Green nabs a labor and employment specialist from Proskauer Rose. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements and news releases to [email protected].
3 minute read
November 20, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Seven Am Law 200 Firms in Lineup for Sale of YES Network Stake

It would take more than a few scorecards to list the teams of lawyers from Boies Schiller, Fried Frank, Herrick Feinstein, Hogan Lovells, Jenner & Block, Skadden, and Weil advising on "Project Homer"—the proposed sale of a 49 percent stake in the YES Network to News Corporation that values the regional sports channel at $3 billion. News of the deal came the same day that two former executives of News Corp.'s British newspaper unit were charged with bribery in the U.K.
10 minute read
December 18, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Nixon Peabody Prepares to Shutter Four-Year-Old Paris Office

The fate of the dozen-plus lawyers in the European outpost, which launched in 2008 after an acrimonious fight with Anglo-German firm Taylor Wessing, was unclear Tuesday.
4 minute read
July 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Unmet Needs

Last year was a banner year for pro bono. Am Law 200 lawyers donated more time at a greater clip than at any time since we started keeping tally nearly 20 years ago. Despite the effort, there are still broad areas of the law--and broad swaths of the country--that rarely see the attention of a big-firm lawyer.
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