Anthony Lin

April 26, 2007 | National Law Journal

Philadelphia's Pepper Hamilton has added two partners to its New York office. Kenneth J. King and Samuel J. Abate will both become partners in Pepper Hamilton's health effects litigation practice, which represents pharmaceutical and medical device companies in product liability cases.

By Anthony Lin

1 minute read

October 11, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Douglas Weinstein was previously the Taipei office head for Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner.

By Anthony Lin

1 minute read

February 06, 2007 | National Law Journal

Winston & Strawn has recruited an eight-lawyer group from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner. The group is led by Michael Elkin, who had been vice chairman and litigation chief of the former Thelen Reid & Priest, which merged last December with Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner. Two other Thelen Reid litigation partners, Thomas P. Lane and Shari Markowitz Savitt, are also moving to Winston, as is corporate lawyer H. Joseph Mello and four associates.

By Anthony Lin

1 minute read

April 30, 2007 | National Law Journal

One of the indicted former name partners of New York's Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman has moved to dismiss federal criminal charges against him. In motion papers filed Friday, Steven G. Schulman took issue with the government's characterization of alleged payments as "kickbacks." He also claimed the government's case is deficient because it fails to demonstrate how the lead plaintiffs' interests diverged from those of other class members.

By Anthony Lin

2 minute read

December 24, 2007 | National Law Journal

The New York Court of Appeals ruled Dec. 20 that partners in a law firm operating as a limited-liability partnership are not shielded from personal liability in disputes with each other.

By Anthony Lin

3 minute read

August 25, 2006 | National Law Journal

Patricia M. Hynes, a former name partner at the firm now known as Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, is leaving that firm to become senior counsel in the New York office of British law firm Allen & Overy.

By Anthony Lin

2 minute read

September 15, 2008 | National Law Journal

A legal malpractice suit against the current New York managing partner of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo claiming he was too preoccupied with his lateral movement among firms to timely file a lawsuit may go forward, a Manhattan judge has ruled.

By Anthony Lin, New York Law Journal

3 minute read

September 10, 2013 | Law.com

The Indonesian Supreme Court says it will not force Lippo Group, an Indonesian business, to award Kuala Lumpur-based conglomerate Astro Malaysia $300 million. The two companies have been in a dispute over a failed satellite television joint venture in Indonesia since 2008.

By Anthony Lin

2 minute read

July 25, 2007 | National Law Journal

McDermott, Will & Emery has recruited to its New York office a former senior trusts and estates partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. Henry "Terry" Christensen, who was a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell for 30 years, will launch a New York private client practice for McDermott Will, whose Chicago home office has one of the nation's top practices in the area.

By Anthony Lin

1 minute read

August 15, 2005 | National Law Journal

If Weil, Gotshal & Manges is found liable in a breach of fiduciary duty suit brought by pop singer Michael Bolton, the firm may seek contribution from Bolton's personal lawyers, a New York trial judge has ruled.

By Anthony Lin

3 minute read