Michael D Goldhaber

July 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

In many of the biggest disputes from our 2009 Arbitration Scorecard, one battleground isn't enough.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

18 minute read

January 11, 2000 | Law.com

This year's extra bonuses at New York firms clustered around 10 percent of pay for every associate. But the Greedy Associates club, at clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/realgas, turned up the pressure on deadbeat firms and issued a "Revised Model Bonus Code." It conjured up the image of lawyers, awaiting bonus news, standing by their phones en masse, ready to call in the headhunters. The greedy associates are funny as hell -- but it's hard to argue that they don't deserve to be strangled.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

4 minute read

February 03, 2000 | Law.com

For every lawyer-runner who finds the phrase "Associate track" harmonious with his or her whole being, there's another lawyer who's more into Frisbee or chess. In search of the perfect sports metaphor for associate life, here's some of America's most impressive and bizarre associate-athletes.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

3 minute read

July 06, 2000 | Law.com

Jan Schlichtmann, the passionate plaintiffs' lawyer immortalized in the book and film "A Civil Action," announced his move to Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein's Boston office. Joining the firm marks the end of an odyssey back to law. "I thought my career was over," said Schlichtmann, after the bankrupting and exhausting case he filed against W. R. Grace and Beatrice over chemical contamination.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

3 minute read

November 01, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

EXCLUSIVE FIRST RELEASE: Do newly obtained outtakes from the documentary Crude show fraud in action, as Chevron claims? We'll let you be the judge. | FULL COVERAGE: CHEVRON IN ECUADOR

By Michael D. Goldhaber

3 minute read

February 01, 2008 | The American Lawyer

In a much-anticipated decision, the European Court of Human Rights produces its own version of Brown v. Board of Education.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

8 minute read

July 01, 2010 | The American Lawyer

Can a dead oil company still hit a gusher?

By Michael D. Goldhaber

18 minute read

October 03, 2000 | Law.com

This year the National Labor Relations Board has issued eight decisions overruling its own precedent. There were 14 such reversals in 1999, for a total of 22 in the past two years. That compares with a high of 18 overrulings in 1984, under a pro-management, Republican-controlled board. With the current board controlled by Democrats, labor attorneys say recent reversals were broadly pro-labor.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

6 minute read

May 04, 2000 | Law.com

Younger female associates are struggling to balance careers and families, but they are less likely than their male counterparts to be married or to be parents. Part of the problem, according to some of the new generation, is the example set by female partners, who are described as "barracudas" or "men in women's clothing."

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read

May 03, 1999 | Law.com

Gordon Gekko would be proud. On April 24, the 1,000th member joined "Greedy Associates," an Internet chat club founded last fall as a "place for the overprivileged to complain." More precisely, GA is a Web site where young lawyers swap pay rumors (or create sex rumors) under silly pseudonyms.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

6 minute read