Brian Baxter

August 28, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Former Dewey & LeBoeuf and Jones Day associate Frank Salzano is trying to help his star client—Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott—get back on the field for the start of the National Football League season, now less than two weeks away.

By Brian Baxter

40 minute read

August 24, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Terrell “Terry” Iandiorio, a 46-year-old litigation and government enforcement counsel at Ropes & Gray in Boston, drowned in a rip current last week in Nantucket, a popular island vacation spot off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

By BRIAN BAXTER

10 minute read

August 23, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Australia's Henry Davis York and British firm Olswang both saw large groups of partners leave their ranks prior to combinations. Filings in the U.K. reveal that Olswang shed almost one-third of its partnership prior to combining with CMS Cameron McKenna and Nabarro earlier this year.

By Anna Ward and Brian Baxter

4 minute read

August 21, 2017 | The American Lawyer

The two Am Law 100 firms are advising the National Basketball Association and Los Angeles Lakers, respectively, in an investigation into whether the latter tampered with former Indianapolis Pacers star forward Paul George.

By Brian Baxter

5 minute read

August 21, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Terrell “Terry” Iandiorio, a 46-year-old litigation and government enforcement counsel at Ropes & Gray in Boston, drowned in a rip current last week in Nantucket, a popular island getaway off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

By Brian Baxter

11 minute read

August 14, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Wachtell, Skadden, Proskauer Rose, Foley & Lardner and Akerman are among a handful of large law firms advising on the proposed $1.2 billion sale of Major League Baseball's Miami Marlins to an ownership group led by former New York Yankees star Derek Jeter and venture capitalist Bruce Sherman.

By Brian Baxter

8 minute read

August 11, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Nearly three months after former Foley & Mansfield partner and federal prosecutor Beranton Whisenant Jr.'s body was found on a Florida beach, local police have determined how he died.

By Brian Baxter

3 minute read

August 10, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Japanese auto parts giant Takata Corp., which followed its U.S. unit into a Delaware bankruptcy court this week, revealed in court documents that it is paying nearly $1 million per month in legal fees to an Am Law 100 firm advising it in product liability litigation over faulty air bags.

By Brian Baxter

4 minute read

August 07, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Stephen Wigginton, a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois who joined Armstrong Teasdale two years ago, has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol earlier this year. Wigginton was charged in May with fleeing the scene of an accident near the St. Louis suburb of Troy, Illinois.

By Brian Baxter

11 minute read

July 24, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison counsel Menachem Kaplan as a partner and head of its U.S. intellectual property practice in New York.

By Brian Baxter

2 minute read