Anthony Lin

January 02, 2012 | The American Lawyer

While firms flock to China's booming legal market, several have scaled back in Tokyo, or even withdrawn altogether. Has Japan become a backwater?

By Anthony Lin

17 minute read

January 01, 2013 | The American Lawyer

A decade after targeting state-owned enterprises as clients, the Texas law firm is riding the wave of outbound Chinese investment.

By Anthony Lin

19 minute read

March 30, 2007 | Law.com

Dewey Ballantine has seen the departure of four partners in the past two weeks, including two -- David J. Grais and Kathryn C. Ellsworth -- who have launched their own law firm. Another Dewey partner, tax specialist Robert H. Frastai, departed last week to Weil, Gotshal & Manges. And in Washington, D.C., Dewey has lost its intellectual property litigation co-chair, Cono A. Carrano, to Howrey.

By Anthony Lin

2 minute read

October 02, 2007 | Law.com

Retired Latham & Watkins partner Francis K. Decker has resigned from the bar after pleading guilty earlier this year to tax evasion charges. Decker, 70, agreed to spend 45 days in jail and pay $1.5 million in back taxes and fines.

By Anthony Lin

1 minute read

August 23, 2007 | National Law Journal

Cooley Godward Kronish has welcomed two new partners to its New York office but has also lost one to a rival. Joining the firm are Laura Grossfield Birger, the former chief of the general crimes unit at the Southern District U.S. Attorney's Office, and Jennifer B. Coplan, a former counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton. The additions come at the same time as the departure of veteran executive compensation specialist Paul M. Ritter, who will head that practice at Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel.

By Anthony Lin

1 minute read

May 12, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has launched an Asia-based international arbitration and litigation practice with senior lawyers who will relocate from London to Hong Kong. The practice will be led by Paul Mitchard QC, a veteran arbitration specialist who has represented numerous multinational corporations in international commercial matters, particularly in the energy and financial services industries.

By Anthony Lin

2 minute read

April 17, 2007 | National Law Journal

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has recruited the chair of the antitrust practice at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Charles "Rick" Rule, who will chair Cadwalader's antitrust practice from the firm's D.C. office, headed the DOJ's antitrust division under President Reagan and was a top lawyer for Microsoft in its antitrust battle with the feds. His recruitment is a coup for Cadwalader, which recently saw the defection of prior antitrust chair Steven Sunshine and two other partners to Skadden.

By Anthony Lin

2 minute read

October 04, 2006 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Sidley Austin's petition for writ of certiorari in the age discrimination suit being brought against the firm by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The firm, which is facing allegations it demoted 31 partners in 1999 on the basis of age, had argued for the suit's dismissal on the grounds the EEOC had no authority to seek monetary damages. But that motion was denied by both the Chicago district court hearing the case and the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

By Anthony Lin

1 minute read

April 09, 2007 | National Law Journal

WilmerHale has recruited to its New York office the former global vice chair of the litigation department at Latham & Watkins. Robert J. Gunther, a veteran patent trial lawyer, will become a partner in WilmerHale's intellectual property litigation group. WilmerHale has long touted its strength in IP litigation. The 1,100-lawyer firm has made expanding its 150-lawyer New York office a major priority.

By Anthony Lin

1 minute read

March 06, 2006 | Law.com

Clifford Chance has elected London partner David Childs as its next global managing partner. Childs, 54, is expected to take over the firm's top management job May 1 and serve for four years. One of the largest firms in the world and a member of London's Magic Circle of leading corporate firms, Clifford Chance has had difficulty in its U.S. expansion efforts, seeing a large number of U.S. partner departures following its acquisition of New York's Rogers & Wells in 2000.

By Anthony Lin

1 minute read