Amy Miller

June 10, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Facebook's "hack-a-thons" are the stuff of geek legend. Every month or two, software engineers stay up all night to brainstorm new features and write code to create them. Refrigerators are stocked with Red Bull. Chinese food is delivered. House music plays till morning--and so do some of Facebook Inc.'s in-house lawyers.

By Amy Miller

8 minute read

December 21, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

After a long run as a big-firm partner, Pfizer's general counsel Amy Schulman knows how the game is played. Now she's out to make law firms charge a flat fee for all the work they do for the drug giant for the entire year.

By Amy Miller

15 minute read

August 01, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

GCs got small raises even as the economy tanked-and the value of their stocks plunged.

By Amy Miller

11 minute read

September 14, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Cuomo didn't uncover significant wrongdoing in an 18-month investigation of the New York State Police — but the AG is looking into whether the ex-GC for the New York Power Authority obstructed the probe.

By Amy Miller

3 minute read

June 07, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

With LinkedIn's IPO lighting up the stock charts earlier this month, speculation has turned to which other social networking companies may soon go public. Recent news reports have suggested that Zynga Game Network could file papers to go public by the end of June, and attorneys in Silicon Valley say the online gaming company has tapped Cooley to represent it.

By Amy Miller

3 minute read

February 11, 2011 | Law.com

By Amy Miller

4 minute read

June 09, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Tom Sager, GC for E. I. du Pont de Nemours, likes alternative fee arrangements, and he's made sure his outside counsel know it. With the economic downturn forcing cost cutting across America, Sager's not alone. Making such agreements work for both the company and its law firms takes more than an innovative proposal and a solid pitch. The success of any alternative fee arrangement depends on mutual trust, said lawyers from DuPont's legal network who attended a conference last week hosted by the company.

By Amy Miller

3 minute read

January 28, 2011 | The Recorder

Morrison & Foerster Chairman Keith Wetmore was among many last year who aggressively managed costs at local firms.

By Petra Pasternak and Amy Miller

7 minute read

October 28, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Tech companies named in the infringement suit?including Apple, Facebook, and Google, have hired a long list of attorneys at local and national firms to combat Allen's charges.

By Amy Miller

2 minute read

June 14, 2011 | Daily Business Review

At 30 lawyers, Facebook's legal department is big for a pre-public company. But considering the company's growth, and the scope of its ambitions, it's still pretty small.

By Amy Miller

8 minute read