Michael D Goldhaber

August 14, 2000 | Law.com

Law students remember the moment they heard the news. On May 21, for most their first day as paid lawyers, summer associates at Boston's Bingham Dana assembled in a firm boardroom and were told that they would not be paid $1,900 per week, as was promised, but $2,400. Says Mike Ross, "It was kind of hard not to burst out laughing out of shock."

By Michael D. Goldhaber

4 minute read

November 01, 2005 | Law.com

In China, capital markets lawyers are retooling an economy that some analysts predict will surpass the United States' by 2041. The current deal wave represents an advanced stage in China's privatization and market liberalization. The inflow of investment into Chinese banks coincides with their IPOs, which began this summer and will stretch into 2007 and beyond. No client has greater legal needs than a bank, and a handful of firms are especially well-positioned to benefit.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

11 minute read

July 19, 1999 | Law.com

It's "twelve angry men" with a twist: A lawyer on a murder trial jury, convinced that the defendant is innocent, helps deadlock the panel and secure a mistrial. But when the case is retried, that same attorney winds up on the defense team and helps win an acquittal. That essentially is what happened this spring in New Orleans.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

11 minute read

January 14, 2011 | The American Lawyer

In recent months, the merits of the environmental litigation against Chevron Corporation in Ecuador have been lost in the sound and the fury of Chevron's fraud allegations against the plaintiffs. We take a look at the evidence in the case now being weighed by an Ecaudorian judge.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

8 minute read

September 08, 2011 | The American Lawyer

With the filing of a new 9/11 complaint against Saudi Arabia just days before the tenth anniversary of the attacks, the plaintiffs war on terror marches on.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read

September 08, 2003 | Law.com

A number of countries are on the hot seat, facing a reduction in U.S. aid unless they show progress in combating the problem of "trafficking in persons," or modern slavery. According to the CIA, at least 800,000 people annually are smuggled across national borders and used as sex workers or sweatshop workers. The problem is especially acute in Eastern Europe, where the DOJ has placed more than a dozen "resident legal advisers" who have made the combating of sexual slavery a top priority.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

7 minute read

September 21, 2010 | Law.com

Releasing the second set of outtakes from a documentary on its toxic tort litigation in Ecuador, Chevron claims that plaintiffs attorneys were planning to strong-arm the Ecuadorian court.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

7 minute read

December 01, 2007 | The American Lawyer

By Michael D. Goldhaber

13 minute read

October 20, 1999 | Law.com

Nicholas Lemann, who scored well enough on his SATs to get into Harvard, was obsessed enough with the exam to write "The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy." One can read "The Big Test" cover to cover without finding Lemann's scores. Buried in the history of testing is an incisive sociology of the high-testing class. It should be required reading for every fancy lawyer who is unsure how he or she became one.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

4 minute read

March 09, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Could anything be worse for alien tort claimants than arguing before a hostile Supreme Court on corporate liability, as the plaintiffs in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell did last month? Yes: arguing before a hostile Supreme Court on extraterritoriality, as those plaintiffs will have to do next term, thanks to a surprise procedural order on March 5.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

6 minute read