Brian Baxter

January 24, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Crowell & Moring, which last week watched its Anchorage office join Holland & Hart, has also shuttered a small outpost in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Gov. Former state Gov. Dave Freudenthal, who helmed the firm's presence in the city for the past six years, has started his own shop. Crowell & Moring is currently engaged in merger talks.

By Brian Baxter

28 minute read

January 23, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Louis Cohen, a real estate of counsel at Foley & Lardner in Chicago who joined the firm last year after serving as international chair of the real estate, finance and banking group at Locke Lord, died last week in a mysterious parking garage fire. Cohen, 60, once helped the Super Bowl-bound Atlanta Falcons get a new stadium.

By Brian Baxter

29 minute read

January 23, 2017 | The American Lawyer

AT&T Inc. said that it will acquire Time Warner Inc. for 
$85.4 billion in cash and stock, becoming the latest telecommunication provider to seek to scoop up an original content provider.

By Brian Baxter, Nell Gluckman, Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Meghan Tribe

109 minute read

January 20, 2017 | The American Lawyer

The telecommunications equipment company, which filed for Chapter 11 protection Thursday in New York, is being advised by Kirkland & Ellis in its bankruptcy case. Holland & Knight is owed some $736,380 by the debtor.

By Brian Baxter

29 minute read

January 20, 2017 | International Edition

Keller Snyman Schelhase's four lawyers join Norton Rose Fulbright in Cape Town

By Brian Baxter

2 minute read

January 20, 2017 | International Edition

Keller Snyman Schelhase's four lawyers join Norton Rose Fulbright in Cape Town

By Brian Baxter

2 minute read

January 19, 2017 | The American Lawyer

In a busy week for law firm combinations, Norton Rose Fulbright has acquired four-lawyer commercial law boutique Keller Snyman Schelhase in Cape Town, a move that comes six years after the global legal giant acquired one of South Africa's largest firms.

By Brian Baxter

31 minute read

January 18, 2017 | The American Lawyer

J. Steven Baughman, a longtime IP litigator at Ropes & Gray in Washington, D.C., is leaving the firm for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Baughman is the firm's latest high-profile lateral recruit.

By Brian Baxter

73 minute read

January 17, 2017 | The American Lawyer

A pair of leading sports industry lawyers have left their firms for new digs. O'Melveny & Myers hired DLA Piper corporate partner Chuck Baker to chair its sports industry group out of New York, where longtime Weil, Gotshal & Manges litigator James Quinn is retiring from the firm at 71 to become of counsel at top trial boutique Berg & Androphy.

By Brian Baxter

45 minute read

January 17, 2017 | Legal Week

Magic circle firm boosts US investigations and litigation practice with double hire

By Brian Baxter

5 minute read