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Christine Simmons

Christine Simmons

Christine Simmons writes about the New York legal community and the business of law. Email her at [email protected] and find her on Twitter @chlsimmons

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May 19, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Allen & Overy Sues Project Finance Client as Fee Suits Pile Up

Allen & Overy is suing a former client for $343,448 arising out of its work for the development and financing of a solar power facility in Panama.

By Christine Simmons

7 minute read

May 17, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Loeb & Loeb Elects NY Media and Tech Partner as Next Leader

Loeb & Loeb, riding a wave of rising revenue and profits, has elected media and tech partner Kenneth Florin in New York as its next chairman, ending the 14-year leadership tenure of Michael Beck.

By Christine Simmons

3 minute read

May 17, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Loeb & Loeb Elects NY Media and Tech Partner as Next Leader

Loeb & Loeb, riding a wave of rising revenue and profits, has elected media and tech partner Kenneth Florin in New York as its next chairman, ending the 14-year leadership tenure of Michael Beck.

By Christine Simmons

7 minute read

April 10, 2017 | The American Lawyer

New York's High-Flying Firms Hit New Heights in Profits, Revenue

The good times are rolling again for New York's elite law firms.

By Christine Simmons and Lizzy McLellan

105 minute read

March 08, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Steep Losses Gripped Kaye Scholer Before Arnold & Porter Merger

Kaye Scholer's financial performance took a remarkable beating in its last year as an independent law firm. But managing partner Michael Solow called the 2016 declines a natural result of strategic pruning ahead of the firm's merger with Arnold & Porter at year's end.

By Christine Simmons

26 minute read

March 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Ex-Katten Lawyer, Shkreli Belong Together at Trial, Feds Say

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said the fraud charges faced by ex-pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli and his former outside counsel, Evan Greebel, are "inextricably intertwined" and are urging a judge to keep their trial joined.

By Christine Simmons

10 minute read

March 01, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Jones Day Picks Up Cadwalader Tax Partner

Richard Nugent, a longtime tax partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, has left to join Jones Day in New York as a partner.

By Christine Simmons

12 minute read

February 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Eight Years On, Firms Still Fighting Ex-Comptroller Over Fees in Mayoral Bid

Bill Thompson, New York City's former comptroller and a two-time mayoral candidate, is embroiled in litigation with New York's Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and New Jersey's Genova Burns over legal fee debts from his 2009 campaign.

By Christine Simmons

14 minute read

February 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Shkreli's Ex-Lawyer Will 'Prosecute' Him at Fraud Trial, Attorneys Say

Former Katten partner Evan Greebel and ex-pharma CEO Martin Shkreli are continuing to square off before their upcoming fraud trial.

By Christine Simmons

16 minute read

February 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Shearman & Sterling Sees Revenue Rise and Partner Profits Spike

Equity partner profits jumped by nearly 20 percent last year, as the firm posted revenue growth across several practices while also cutting back its equity partner ranks.

By Christine Simmons

15 minute read