Anthony Lin

May 31, 2006 | Daily Report Online

ATLANTA'S MCKENNA LONG ALDRIDGE has acquired the politically connected six-lawyer New York firm at which Gov. George E. Pataki was once a partner. Plunkett Jaffe, where Pataki was a partner from 1974 to 1987, will become the New York arm of 400-lawyer McKenna Long, which will gain offices in Manhattan and Albany.

By Anthony Lin

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July 29, 2008 | National Law Journal

The ex-Sullivan & Cromwell associate who brought a highly publicized sexual orientation discrimination suit against his former firm has been hired by Clifford Chance. Aaron B. Charney will join the British law firm's New York office as a fifth-year mergers and acquisitions associate. Charney's ability to land another law firm position after being involved in such a high-profile suit against his former firm suggests such litigation may no longer be career suicide, provided the lawyer has desirable skills.

By Anthony Lin

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December 26, 2007 | National Law Journal

Allen & Overy faces a religious discrimination suit by a former associate who claims he was fired because he insisted on observing the Jewish Sabbath. Norman D. Schoenfeld claimed in a suit filed in Manhattan federal court Thursday that the British law firm fired him because one partner in particular was upset that Schoenfeld was unable to work on matters from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. In a statement responding to the suit, Allen & Overy said Schoenfeld was fired for performance reasons.

By Anthony Lin

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September 20, 2013 | The American Lawyer

The Debevoise & Plimpton partner and former U.K. attorney general had sought to represent a gay couple seeking to overturn Singapore's law banning male homosexual sex.

By Anthony Lin

3 minute read

October 04, 2007 | National Law Journal

White & Case has recruited a capital markets partner from the New York office of Linklaters. N. Adele Hogan became a partner in the New York office of London-based Linklaters in 2005. She was previously a senior attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

By Anthony Lin

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September 28, 2012 | Law.com

Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy and Indian law firm Trilegal have ended their alliance, citing the lack of progress toward liberalization of the Indian legal market, which remains closed to foreign law firms. Lack of progress toward a market opening also led Clifford Chance and AZB & Partners to end their referral arrangement last year.

By Anthony Lin

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September 04, 2006 | National Law Journal

Laura Balemian, whose husband Edward Mardovich died in the World Trade Center, received one of the largest awards paid out by the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund: $6.7 million. But she in turn paid out what is almost certainly the highest legal fee.

By Anthony Lin/New York Law Journal

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April 17, 2013 | The American Lawyer

A High Court judge ruled that there was insufficient "special reason" to allow a foreign counsel into a high-profile criminal case.

By Anthony Lin

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December 08, 2003 | National Law Journal

The investigation headed by Neal Batson, the court-appointed examiner for Enron Corp.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy, has resulted in billings to the Enron estate of more than $100 million since it started in the summer of 2002.

By Anthony LinAmerican Lawyer Media News Service

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April 18, 2013 | Law.com

Singapore's High Court has rejected the application of a senior U.K. barrister to act as defense counsel for a former megachurch fund manager charged in a $20 million embezzlement case. Justice V. K. Rajah ruled that the case's high profile did not constitute a "special reason" sufficient to admit a foreign counsel in a criminal proceeding.

By Anthony Lin

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