Ross Todd

August 01, 2008 | Law.com

As recently as the mid-'90s, incoming associates, be they new law school recruits or potential lateral hires, all tended to ask the same question: How long does it take to make partner here? But today, nobody seems to ask that. The shift isn't due to a reluctance by firms to promote or associates' insecurity over the economy. Instead, American Lawyer's annual midlevel survey indicates that, although most associates think they could make partner, they're just not sure they want to.

By Ross Todd

10 minute read

January 27, 2010 | Law.com

In the days following the earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan's employees contributed to ServeHAITI, a faith-based organization that works on the ground in the Caribbean nation. In addition, firm partner Peter Anderson, a board member of the nonprofit, traveled with two U.S. doctors to volunteer in Haiti. Setting out on Jan. 18, he returned home to Georgia a week later. Shortly after his return, The Am Law Daily spoke with him about the enormity of the struggles that Haitians are now facing.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

August 27, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Based on the briefs they submitted, the SEC and Bank of America heard two different orders from Manhattan federal Judge Jed Rakoff on Aug. 10, when he told both sides to supply additional details on the preparation of BofA's proxy and disclosure materials for its September 2008 merger with Merrill Lynch

By By Alison Frankel and Ross Todd

6 minute read

April 01, 2006 | Law.com

The long freeze in first-year associate salaries is finally over.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

November 01, 2007 | The American Lawyer

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

January 26, 2010 | The American Lawyer

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan partner Peter Anderson traveled to Haiti along with two American doctors last week. The Am Law Daily caught up with him by phone Tuesday afternoon to talk about ServeHAITI and its work amid the devastation.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

August 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Since January 2008, Am Law 200 firms have laid off more than 2,900 lawyers. As part of our annual midlevel survey, we asked 6,101 third-, fourth-, and fifth-year associates to assess how their firms handled layoffs.

By Ross Todd

12 minute read

February 02, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Anne Pitter practiced with the same group of corporate attorneys for 15 years. They stayed together even as the name on the door changed: Baer Marks & Upham merged into Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, and Brown Raysman merged into Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner. But when Thelen fell apart last fall, Pitter was on her own.

By Ross Todd

13 minute read

October 01, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

The list of pending lawsuits wasn't the only thing weighing on Wendy Hufford's mind when she accepted a job as chief litigation counsel at Cardinal Health, Inc.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

February 06, 2012 | The American Lawyer

After nearly five years of litigation in the United Arab Emirates and Washington, D.C., Juniper Networks and its outside counsel from Kaye Scholer won dismissal of a patent suit brought by a Saudi national wielding a U.S. patent in Dubai.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read