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Meet Robert Khuzami, Kirkland & Ellis' New $5 Million Man
Who says the best days of the big-firm partner are over? Kirkland & Ellis officially announced Tuesday that Robert Khuzami, who ended his four-year run as director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement division in January, has joined the firm as a partner in its government, regulatory and internal investigations practice.Madness over a Muncie, Ind., museum jars the senses
William W. Bedsworth Henry David Thoreau once said, "It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar." It's a good thing Thoreau didn't know my mother. If he had, he never would have spent all that time hanging out at Walden Pond. He would have gone to Zanzibar, seen the cats, and dropped the writing thing like a hot rock.11th Circuit's ruling on Gay Adoption is downright mean
Evan P. SchultzPresident Bush says he's "troubled by activist judges" who are letting gays and lesbians marry. He's half-right. In the controversy raging over the place of gays in American society, some judges have indeed ignored the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent to impose their personal morality onto the public.Employment tests may fail legal exam
A growing number of employers are using employment exams-including aptitude tests-to weed out potentially bad hires, a practice that has triggered an increase in complaints and legal actions. The recent boom in online job applications yielding huge numbers of applicants has contributed heavily to the practice, lawyers note, along with post-Sept.U.S. high court fails to make mark in dilution case
Raymond Kurz, Celine Jimenez Crowson, and Anna KurianIn 1995, Congress passed the Federal Trademark Dilution Act. And ever since, courts have struggled to determine what elements are required to prove a federal dilution claim. There was much anticipation leading up to the Supreme Court's March 4 opinion in Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue.Greenberg should take a lesson from GE's Immelt
The world is full of victims of American International Group Inc.'s bad judgment, whether they know it or not. AIG's push to market ever more exotic securities with ever decreasing attention to risk helped accelerate the economic tailspin felt around the world. For victims, count U.S. taxpayers, now propping up the collapsed insurance giant with a $150 billion package and another $30 billion sitting in the wings.
Belt-tightening benefits Fisher & Phillips
After a year of belt-tightening in 2009, labor and employment boutique Fisher Phillips had what managing partner Roger K. Quillen said was "a very nice year" last year, with business up enough to raise associate pay 8 percent and add two more offices."Our firm was the busiest, on a per-lawyer basis, as it has been in 10 years," said Quillen, whose firm's revenue per lawyer was up 2.Trending Stories
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