Anthony Lin

March 27, 2002 | Law.com

Chicago-based Katten Muchin & Zavis has gained a New York presence by merging with Rosenman & Colin, creating a firm of roughly 675 lawyers called KMZ Rosenman. Although Katten Muchin is by far the larger of the two firms, it is little-known in New York. Client needs, not grandiose expansion plans, prompted Katten Muchin to explore New York expansion, according to the merged firm's managing partner.

By Anthony Lin

7 minute read

October 18, 2007 | National Law Journal

A suit pitting former law firm partners against each other over a post-9/11 insurance payout will proceed, a New York judge has ruled. Ohrenstein & Brown had its offices in the World Trade Center when two of its employees were killed in the terrorist attacks. The firm later received about $10 million in insurance money � but in a suit filed last year, two former partners charged that five other partners conspired to keep for themselves almost $4 million of that money, a huge windfall for the small firm.

By Anthony Lin

7 minute read

July 16, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Hong Kong businessman Michael Hotung was wounded when his father, head of one of Hong Kong's wealthiest and most illustrious families, publicly disowned him in interviews with the local Chinese-language press. So he sued--in Virginia.

By Anthony Lin

6 minute read

September 04, 2013 | The American Lawyer

In a particularly striking application of Hong Kong's "loser pays" rules, a small investor who unsuccessfully represented himself in an $89,000 claim faces paying DBS Bank's legal fees to DLA Piper and two barristers.

By Anthony Lin

4 minute read

July 11, 2002 | Law.com

Harvey R. Miller, known as the dean of bankruptcy lawyers, announced Tuesday that he is leaving Weil, Gotshal & Manges to join investment banking boutique and private equity firm Greenhill & Co., as a partner and managing director, effective Sept. 1. Miller is departing just as the New York firm is working on the two largest corporate restructurings in American history, those of Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc.

By Anthony Lin

5 minute read

May 24, 2011 | Daily Report Online

By Anthony Lin

5 minute read

December 27, 2001 | Law.com

In October, when Davis, Polk & Wardwell declared there would be no year-end bonuses, the news struck New York lawyers as a harbinger of woes unimagined in the boom years. Sure enough, layoffs ensued and associates began accepting the idea of minimal or nonexistent bonuses. Then the bonus announcements started coming out. Davis Polk has reversed course, and it looks as if this holiday season the boom-year bonus wars are back.

By Anthony Lin

8 minute read

December 18, 2006 | Daily Report Online

IN 1961, AT AGE 38, Morton S. Robson was stepping down from a stint as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Looking ahead to a career in private practice and perhaps political office, he sat beside Eleanor Roosevelt at the swearing-in of his successor as Manhattan's chief federal prosecutor, Robert M. Morgenthau.

By Anthony Lin

12 minute read

September 24, 2008 | National Law Journal

Former Sullivan & Cromwell partner Carlos Spinelli-Noseda has resigned from the New York bar for billing his clients and firm more than $500,000 in fraudulent expenses. A state court of appeal accepted his resignation Tuesday. Spinelli-Noseda, a banking and finance specialist who was facing a disciplinary probe, admitted to claiming personal meals and lodging as business development expenses, and to sometimes expensing lower-priced airline seats as first-class flights and pocketing the difference.

By Anthony Lin

5 minute read

November 08, 2006 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK'S highest court has agreed to hear a case involving two King Spalding partners that concerns law firms' ability to withhold capital contributions and compensation from departing partners. The Court of Appeals granted leave at its Oct. 24 session to W. Edward Bailey, the former managing partner of intellectual property boutique Fish Neave, and Kevin J.

By Anthony Lin

5 minute read