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June 09, 2000 | Law.com

Lower Pay, Shorter Hours for Long Island Associates

While the highest first-year associate salaries on Long Island, N.Y., are a full 50 percent lower than New York City numbers, Long Island-based firms contend it's a Big Apple-to-oranges comparison. The quality of life and of practice the Island affords is alluring. In addition to more relaxed billable hour requirements, Long Island firms hire associates anticipating they will make partner.
6 minute read
June 01, 2006 | The American Lawyer

Nudge From the Judge

At a recent hearING, CLASS action king Melvyn Weiss was thrown a few fast pitches-and he whiffed. The scene was U.S. district court judge Shira Scheindlin's courtroom in Manhattan; the issue was the fairness of a three-year-old $1 billion settlement between the issuers and plaintiffs in the massive IPO allocation litigation that was consolidated before Judge Scheindlin in 2001.
4 minute read
January 16, 2001 | Law.com

France

A flurry of aggressive French dealmaking in the last two years has allowed several U.S. and U.K. firms to make inroads into France's legal market. But even as these outsiders aggressively poach local lawyers to staff their Paris offices, French corporate boutiques have resisted rushing to the altar with their colleagues from abroad. The French have been more interested in being just "friends."
5 minute read
March 15, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

ESPN Minimizes Losses In Dish Network Suit

Dish Network LLC f/k/a Echostar Satellite LLC v. ESPN, Inc. and ESPN Classic Inc.: Dish Network sought $152 million from Bristol-based ESPN in a dispute alleging that the sports network gave competitors better rates than they gave the satellite television provider.
5 minute read
September 07, 2007 | Law.com

Google In-House Lawyers Find Unusual Perks, Groundbreaking Work

Finding the right sort of lawyer to fit Google's playful ethos and steely business sense is -- judging by the army of recruiters assigned to the job -- a challenge. But it's not difficult to see why lawyers are lining up to work at the world's biggest Internet company. Aside from the perks, Google lawyers face legal issues that are the first of their kind. The groundbreaking nature of the work is the reason why Google still doesn't have a panel of outside counsel, says European GC Nigel Jones.
8 minute read
March 17, 2006 | Law.com

Biotech Firm Wins Breach of Duty Motion

Biosynexus, a biopharmaceutical company that has developed a technology that appears to prevent staph infections, has successfully moved to enjoin its joint-venture partner from transferring its interests in the staph-infection project to one of Biosynexus' competitors. Biosynexus alleged that the Glaxo Group breached its fiduciary duty as a joint-venture partner by, among other things, assigning its interest without consent and breaching contractual duties.
4 minute read
July 08, 2003 | Law.com

WorldCom Pact Approved

The largest penalty ever assessed against a U.S. company by the SEC received the green light on Monday, as a federal judge in New York agreed that telecommunications giant WorldCom should pay $750 million. The judge's approval followed revisions concerning the penalty amount and measures for WorldCom to become "a good corporate citizen" in the wake of the multibillion-dollar accounting fraud that shredded its stock price and plunged it into bankruptcy last summer.
4 minute read
September 11, 2000 | Law.com

Seven-Year-Old MCA Shareholder Settlement Upheld

A Delaware judge rejected a bid by disgruntled ex-MCA shareholders to overturn a 7-year-old $2 million settlement of shareholder suits against Matsushita Electric Industrial over its acquisition of MCA. The judge noted Chancery Court precedent already rebuffed investors unhappy with a securities class-action settlement who waited a year to file their motion to intervene.
6 minute read
March 30, 2006 | Law.com

Davis Lawyer Impressed with SEC Rules

Bruce Dallas said new regulations governing corporate access to capital markets reduced a lot of the uncertainty in the timing of his client FormFactor's $190 million stock offering.'Rational' Internet Market on Rebound?Pillsbury Winthrop helps aQuantive in its $180 million public offering, one of the bigger Internet-based deals since the bubble went flat years ago.
4 minute read
August 28, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Dewey, LeBoeuf Announce Plans to Merge

Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae have agreed to merge, creating a firm of over 1,300 lawyers.
5 minute read

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