Anthony Lin

August 23, 2010 | The American Lawyer

Weiheng Chen is joining from Milbank to launch the office for the Palo Alto-based firm and to serve as co-head of the China practice. Hong Kong is a logical next step, the firm says.

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July 25, 2007 | Law.com

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.

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May 03, 2006 | Law.com

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday it had reached a settlement with Mark A. Belnick, the former Tyco International Ltd. general counsel, over claims he received about $14 million in unauthorized and undisclosed company relocation loans. The relatively light fine by the SEC, which had originally sought disgorgement of the allegedly ill-gotten loans, ends most litigation against Belnick. He remains a defendant in the securities class action pending against Tyco.

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January 11, 2011 | The American Lawyer

The retrial of a murder case that has transfixed Hong Kong opened Tuesday, as American expatriate Nancy Kissel again pleaded not guilty to charges that, in 2003, she bludgeoned to death her husband, Merrill Lynch investment banker Robert Kissel, after serving him a sedative-laced milkshake.

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March 03, 2010 | Law.com

Steptoe & Johnson is making its first move into Asia with a new office in Beijing. Eric Emerson, a longtime Washington, D.C.-based partner specializing in international trade, has relocated to China to become managing partner of the new office, which officially opened on Monday. Joining him will be Susan Munro, a former counsel in O'Melveny & Myers' Shanghai office. Munro has a wide-ranging practice handling both transactional and litigation matters for multinational companies doing business in China.

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June 06, 2008 | New York Law Journal

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September 20, 2007 | National Law Journal

Sullivan & Cromwell has unveiled a plan to pay senior associates and counsels supplemental bonuses tied to the firm's financial performance. According to an internal memo, the new bonuses are for fifth-year associates and up, as well as counsels, and which will be paid in addition to those lawyers' base salaries and normal year-end bonuses. A Sullivan & Cromwell partner said the supplemental bonuses would probably range from about $15,000 for fifth-years to about $30,000 for eighth-years.

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October 30, 2007 | National Law Journal

Law firm bonus season got off to an early start this year as Cravath, Swaine & Moore -- often regarded as a market leader in associate compensation -- announced on Monday that it would pay one-time special bonuses ranging from $10,000 for first-years to $50,000 for senior associates, along with year-end bonuses running from $35,000 to $60,000. The two bonuses come on top of salaries starting at $160,000.

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January 09, 2007 | Law.com

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo has recruited two New York partners from McDermott, Will & Emery, Andrew B. Roth and David S. Ivill, both of whom specialize in health care matters. They will be joined by one associate from McDermott Will. Boston-based Mintz Levin has about 450 lawyers worldwide, with around 70 in New York.

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December 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

A Sidley Austin patent agent's previous work for a lighting company while at another firm should not disqualify Sidley lawyers from representing an inventor suing the company for patent infringement, a Manhattan federal court has decided. Sidley is representing a client in suits against several lighting companies over processes used in the manufacture of light emitting diodes. The judge agreed that the patent agent should be personally disqualified, but the conflict should not be impute

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