September 26, 2017 | The Recorder
Big Law's Latest Gender Bias Plaintiff is a Former Obama ClassmateConstance Ramos, who left Winston & Strawn in August to start her own Oakland, California-based intellectual property boutique, has become the…
By Brian Baxter | The American Lawyer
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September 26, 2017 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Big Law's Latest Gender Bias Plaintiff is a Former Obama ClassmateConstance Ramos, who left Winston & Strawn in August to start her own Oakland, California-based intellectual property boutique, has become the latest former member of Big Law to bring a gender bias suit against an Am Law 200 firm.
By Brian Baxter
14 minute read
September 25, 2017 | The American Lawyer
Big Law's Latest Gender Bias Plaintiff is a Former Obama ClassmateConstance Ramos, who left Winston & Strawn's partnership in August to start her own Oakland, California-based intellectual property boutique, has accused the firm of sexual discrimination and retaliation in a suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court.
By Brian Baxter
14 minute read
September 22, 2017 | The American Lawyer
Winston, Latham Prepare for Pitched Battle Over US SoccerJeffrey Kessler, a veteran antitrust litigator in the sports arena, is taking aim at the governing body for soccer in the U.S. The 71-page complaint recently filed by a team of Winston & Strawn litigators led by Kessler against the U.S. Soccer Federation—advised by Latham & Watkins—had been at least two years in the making.
By Brian Baxter and Roy Strom
8 minute read
September 17, 2017 | The American Lawyer
Big Law Staff Attorney Pleads Guilty to Child Porn ChargesJason Mark Sims, a 35-year-old lawyer who has worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in Washington, D.C., has pleaded guilty to distributing videos of child sex abuse. Federal prosecutors disclosed the charges against Sims late Friday.
By Brian Baxter
6 minute read
September 11, 2017 | The American Lawyer
Ex-Orrick Leader Finally Ready to Run for CongressRalph Baxter Jr., a former CEO of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe who retired to West Virginia four years ago, will announce Tuesday that he is going to run for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. He spoke with The American Lawyer about the path that led him to pursue a new career in public service.
By Brian Baxter
5 minute read
September 07, 2017 | International Edition
Trump lawyers make headlines for wrong reasons in email and prisoner affair dramasKing & Spalding ethics adviser and ex-Hogan Lovells partner face unwanted attention
By Brian Baxter
4 minute read
September 07, 2017 | The American Lawyer
Strange Days: Trump Lawyers Caught Up in Email, Inmate DramasKing & Spalding partner Bobby Burchfield, the Trump Organization's top ethics counsel, and ex-Hogan Lovells partner Ty Cobb, who joined the White House this summer as a member of the president's legal defense team in special counsel Robert Mueller III's Russia investigation, saw their names emerge in two eyebrow-raising reports.
By Brian Baxter
25 minute read
September 06, 2017 | The Recorder
Summer's End Sees Partner Departures Mount at Wilson SonsiniThe first week of September saw Latham & Watkins pick up Wilson Sonsini's privacy and data protection co-chair Michael Rubin, while three other Wilson Sonsini partners are poised to join Cooley. Matthew Sonsini, the son of Wilson Sonsini's septuagenarian chairman Larry Sonsini, has also left the firm for another family business.
By Brian Baxter and Rebecca Cohen
103 minute read
September 05, 2017 | The American Lawyer
Three Am Law 100 Firms Lift Off With Big Houston Rockets SaleBaker Botts, DLA Piper and White & Case are advising on the record-setting $2.2 billion sale of the National Basketball Association's Houston Rockets from former lawyer Leslie Alexander to casino and hospitality billionaire Tilman Fertitta.
By Brian Baxter
44 minute read
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