Christine Simmons

September 13, 2013 | New York Law Journal

The new chair of the board of Lawyers Without Borders discusses her own work in Liberia, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, along with the organization's training programs on legal concepts and human rights in developing countries.

By Christine Simmons

13 minute read

November 21, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - With briefcase in hand and a smile on his face, Attorney General Michael Mukasey returned to work Friday after collapsing during a speech the night before and spurring a 14-hour scare about his health.A Justice Department spokeswoman blamed the 67-year-old's dramatic and public fall on a fainting spell.

By LARA JAKES JORDAN and CHRISTINE SIMMONS

4 minute read

July 05, 2012 | Law.com

A discrimination suit filed by a black resident can go forward against the legendary Manhattan co-op where John Lennon was murdered, a state appellate court has ruled.

By Brendan Pierson and Christine Simmons

5 minute read

June 17, 2013 | New York Law Journal

The size of the state's largest law firms has remained steady over the last year, while growth in several regional firms has been significant, according to an analysis of the number of attorneys in the 100 largest law firms in the state.

By Christine Simmons

7 minute read

July 26, 2013 | New York Law Journal

The managing partner of Clyde & Co.'s New York office said the firm's evidence in the defamation suit includes "an email and photograph of a naked woman that Plaintiff circulated to certain female employees while working at Clyde," an allegation the former senior counsel denied, saying the firm was "grasping at straws."

By Christine Simmons

6 minute read

November 01, 2012 | New York Law Journal

For thousands of lawyers across the United States, Election Day isn't just about casting ballots for their preferred candidates. It's also about making sure that the system under which Americans vote works as it's supposed to. With the presidential race too close to call and candidates scrambling for every vote, that will be a particularly important this year.

By Tom Huddleston Jr. and Christine Simmons

6 minute read

August 27, 2013 | Commercial Litigation Insider

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Eileen Bransten found that because a nonequity partner became a minority equity partner after Marya Lenn Yee's death, intellectual property boutique Donovan & Yee did not dissolve, but a question remains whether the firm owes Yee's estate any money.

By Christine Simmons

6 minute read

July 03, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Linda Grant Williams, who practiced at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and Greenberg Traurig, claims Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs conspired to block a new bond structure she developed, and the banks' threats led the two law firms to fire her.

By Christine Simmons

6 minute read

April 19, 2012 | New York Law Journal

New York City firms raised their attorney billing rates on average by 12 percent in the last few years, the second highest change in rates among lawyers in various U.S. cities, according to a new report, which also shows that a lawyer's billing rate is determined more by law firm size and location than by status, experience or practice area.

By Christine Simmons

7 minute read

October 15, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Only four months after settling in at 600 Lexington Ave., sublessee Grant + Appelbaum, a four-attorney matrimonial firm, was told by 35-year-old law firm Gersten Savage that it was defaulting on its lease, its partners were departing and the subtenants would have to leave or be evicted, according to a lawsuit against Gersten Savage.

By Christine Simmons

7 minute read