Michael D Goldhaber

September 01, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

How London's top firms stack up globally after the recession.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

3 minute read

September 01, 2008 | The American Lawyer

Kensington International litigated around the world to collect on bad debt from the Congo Republic.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

11 minute read

October 01, 2010 | The American Lawyer

There may be a RICO suit lurking in the Ecuadorian jungle.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

4 minute read

August 04, 2000 | Law.com

Sam Sheldon had never heard of mandatory minimums when he picked up a copy of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune at a convenience store. He'd been admitted to practice only that month, December 1997. He read that a woman had been sentenced to 14 years for a relatively minor role in a drug conspiracy. He thought that it was unjust and that a law degree gave him the power to right injustice.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

6 minute read

August 21, 2007 | Law.com

Jared Genser and Yang Jianli have found their lives intertwined. Students at the Kennedy School of Government 10 years ago, Genser was inspired by Yang to become a lawyer and ultimately to found Freedom Now, a group whose highly targeted campaigns have scored an impressive record of helping to free prisoners of conscience. It was largely thanks to Freedom Now that Yang was able to leave a Chinese prison earlier this year and to return to the United States on Saturday as a free man.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

9 minute read

February 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Closing the detention center at Guant�namo Bay is the easy part. Then what? Constitutional lawyers are bitterly divided-and where they stand depends on whether they think U.S. courts are capable of trying terror suspects.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

14 minute read

February 14, 2011 | The American Lawyer

You think Monday's $8 billion judgment against Chevron means the case is over? Think again. And when a pair of Am Law 100 firms fling the kind of accusations these two have at one another, you know the stakes are really high. Here's why both sides are willing to take those risks.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

8 minute read

July 18, 2011 | The American Lawyer

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read

May 10, 1999 | Law.com

Shook, Hardy & Bacon associates wish they could bring home more bacon. At an April 22 meeting, partner James Beck addressed 120 pay-frustrated associates. Beck defended Shook's decision not to match pay hikes announced in the past year at other Kansas City, Mo., law offices, but many young lawyers left the room downright angry.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

6 minute read

March 03, 2000 | Law.com

When Frank Hunsaker and Thomas McDermott heard of a ballot initiative in their state to give adopted children the right to learn the identity of their birth parents, they knew there would be an emotional fight, and each wanted a piece of it. Their common response was understandable. They are both Oregon lawyers and both adoptive dads. But after each had talked the issue over with their wives and kids and decided to enlist in the looming struggle, the two families wound up on opposite sides of the issue.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

12 minute read