Brian Baxter

September 26, 2017 | The Recorder

Constance 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 |

110 minute read

September 26, 2017 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Constance 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

Constance 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

Jeffrey 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

Jason 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

Ralph 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

King & Spalding ethics adviser and ex-Hogan Lovells partner face unwanted attention

By Brian Baxter

4 minute read

September 07, 2017 | The American Lawyer

King & 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

The 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

Baker 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