Anthony Lin

July 23, 2002 | Law.com

With outposts established in Manhattan and California, London-based Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells, the world's largest law firm, is now pondering what may turn out to be its next big move in the U.S. legal market -- Westchester County, N.Y. Though a final decision is probably at least a year away, the idea of opening a Westchester satellite office has so far been greeted positively within the firm.

By Anthony Lin

4 minute read

November 30, 2007 | National Law Journal

A Manhattan federal judge has delivered a lengthy manifesto against declining civility in the legal profession in the course of sanctioning law firm Dorsey & Whitney and two of its partners. Southern District of New York Judge Harold Baer opened his 129-page decision with a discussion of how "naked competition and singular economic focus of the marketplace have begun to infiltrate the practice of law, subordinating the high standards of service, collegiality and professionalism as a result."

By Anthony Lin

5 minute read

January 02, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Anthony [email protected] NEW YORK-In October, Davis, Polk Wardwell informed associates they would not be receiving year-end bonuses. The news struck young lawyers across New York as a harbinger of woes unimagined in the boom years just past. Sure enough, by the middle of November, Shearman Sterling had announced a major layoff due to the tumbling economy.

By Anthony Lin

8 minute read

May 25, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Dean Jeffrey Lehman is generally pleased with the progress of the new law school he oversees. The former dean of University of Michigan Law School and onetime president of Cornell University has seen enrollment at the three-year-old school go from 53 extremely bright and highly motivated students per class to 80.

By Anthony Lin

5 minute read

January 17, 2005 | National Law Journal

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed suit on behalf of some former Sidley Austin Brown & Wood lawyers who claim they were either fired or demoted because of their age. If the agency wins, it could force firms to re-evaluate their management structures and practices.

By Anthony Lin

6 minute read

August 28, 2006 | National Law Journal

Leading Silicon Valley law firm Cooley Godward has agreed to merge with New York litigation boutique Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman, creating a national firm of 550 lawyers.

By Anthony Lin

6 minute read

April 11, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Real estate developer Donald Trump is claiming the Manhattan law firm that represented him in a lawsuit against an overcharging golf course contractor overcharged him. Trump filed a legal malpractice suit against New York's Morrison Cohen last year in Westchester County Supreme Court, claiming the firm treated him like a "cash cow" and performed unnecessary work to generate higher bills.

By Anthony Lin

4 minute read

February 20, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A federal judge in Manhattan has blasted a pair of AIG executives, both of whom are also lawyers, for asking him to make allegations against them "disappear" after the settlement of a suit that accused them of "fundamentally dishonest behavior."

By ANTHONY LIN

5 minute read

June 06, 2006 | National Law Journal

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is suing Sidley Austin Brown & Wood for age discrimination, has moved to disqualify the law firm's defense counsel from representing a former firm administrator who described a mandatory partner retirement policy in a 1999 letter to the Social Security Administration.

By Anthony Lin

4 minute read

September 16, 2013 | Law.com

Not all Hong Kong deal lawyers would be sad to see what's expected to be the world's largest IPO since Facebook go to New York instead.

By Anthony Lin

6 minute read