Christine Simmons

February 10, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Cleary Gottlieb, whose main office downtown was closed for about three and a half days after Superstorm Sandy and then continued to be affected by the loss of utilities, claims it lost more than $3 million in business income.

By Christine Simmons

5 minute read

February 05, 2014 | New York Law Journal

New York City Council members on Tuesday approved Mark Peters as commissioner of the Department of Investigation, the watchdog office that probes city employees and contractors for corruption, fraud, waste or unethical conduct.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read

February 04, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Ask attorney Mark Peters if he would hesitate to break ranks with close friend and political ally Mayor Bill de Blasio as the city's top watchdog, and he will mention David Paterson.

By Christine Simmons

8 minute read

February 03, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Daniel Horwitz, chairman of the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics, has moved to 77-attorney McLaughlin & Stern.

By Christine Simmons

1 minute read

February 03, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The judge in a nursing home negligence case said a Wilson Elser attorney repeatedly and inappropriately referenced the psychiatric history of a deceased woman whose estate was suing the facility and ordered the firm to pay its adversary as much as $35,800 in legal fees and costs.

By Christine Simmons

5 minute read

February 03, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A survey of New York's largest firms shows a slight uptick in the number of lawyers promoted to partner last year. The number of new partners firmwide at remained almost even from the number in 2012.

By Christine Simmons

8 minute read

January 31, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Mark Peters, Mayor Bill de Blasio's pick to head the city's watchdog agency, was questioned at a City Council committee hearing Thursday about his close relationship with the mayor and his ability to be independent.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read

January 31, 2014 | New York Law Journal

David Meister, who served as enforcement director at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, will head the firm's government enforcement and white-collar crime group in New York.

By Christine Simmons

1 minute read

January 30, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Leslie Corwin, an expert on partnership law, said the size of Greenberg, which has about 1,700 lawyers firm wide, had become an issue.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read

January 27, 2014 | New York Law Journal

William Johnson and Dixie Johnson, two leaders of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson's white-collar defense and securities enforcement practice, are leaving to join King & Spalding.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read