Anthony Lin

January 11, 2008 | National Law Journal

Sullivan & Cromwell has taken its battle with Electronic Evidence Discovery to state Supreme Court in Manhattan while the Kirkland, Wa.-based e-discovery vendor has filed its own suit in state court in Seattle, claiming the New York law firm owes it almost $720,000 for services rendered plus interest. Sullivan & Cromwell first sued EED last month in the Southern District of New York, alleging the company had consistently missed deadlines and prepared the wrong documents for production to opposing counsel.

By Anthony Lin

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May 08, 2012 | Law.com

Cadwalader has recruited a three-partner capital markets team from the Hong Kong office of Jones Day. The addition of Jeffrey Maddox, Joseph Lee and David Neuville comes amid a slump in deal activity dating back to the last quarter of 2011, but Cadwalader Asia practice head Rocky Lee said the firm had its eye on the long haul.

By Anthony Lin

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March 09, 2007 | National Law Journal

Dewey Ballantine has added two corporate partners in New York. John J. Altorelli and Jeffrey A. Potash, who both come from the New York office of Pittsburgh's Reed Smith, are the first lateral partners to join Dewey since the January collapse of a plan to merge with San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.

By Anthony Lin

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May 19, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Outsourcing company Integreon has reached what it calls the largest legal outsourcing deal ever, worth $852 million over 10 years, with CMS Cameron McKenna. CMS employees whose "middle office" duties are covered by the deal will continue in their jobs but draw paychecks from Integreon.

By Anthony Lin

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August 22, 2005 | National Law Journal

Coudert Brothers' announcement last week that it would dissolve its partnership marked the last chapter in the firm's 152-year history.

By Jason McLure, Emma Schwartz & Anthony Lin

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October 09, 2012 | The American Lawyer

The firm is relocating international arbitration specialist Gautam Bhattacharyya from London to lead the new office, which will also count two lateral partners from Holman Fenwick Willan.

By Anthony Lin

2 minute read

February 23, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Anthony Lin A senior in-house lawyer at the New York Life Insurance Co. has resigned after the company discovered in recent weeks that he had never been licensed to practice law.Michael A. Watson, 44, first joined the insurance giant in 1996 and had been promoted last July to first vice president and deputy general counsel.

By Anthony Lin

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July 13, 2006 | National Law Journal

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is suing Sidley Austin Brown & Wood for age discrimination on behalf of 31 partners demoted or expelled in 1999, has moved to compel the law firm to produce a deposition witness to testify about the firm's specific reasons for changing the partners' status.

By Anthony Lin

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August 10, 2007 | National Law Journal

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has been disqualified from representing Deutsche Bank in a suit accusing the bank of hoarding funds belonging to victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. The federal judge overseeing the case said the firm could no longer be involved because it had retained as an expert an academic who had previously been retained by one of the plaintiff's lawyer and had been given confidential information.

By Anthony Lin

2 minute read

October 10, 2005 | National Law Journal

G.E.'s widely emulated policies, which stress cost and efficiency in choosing counsel, have since caused many lawyers to lament the passing of cozy, personal lawyer-client relationships.

By Anthony LinNew York Law Journal

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