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December 07, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Memo from the 1 percent: Count us out of society

To: The Upper Ones From: Strategy Committee Re: The Counterrevolution As usual, we have much to celebrate. The rabble has been driven from the public parks. Our adversaries, now defined by the freaks and criminals among them, have demonstrated only that they have no idea what they are doing. They have failed to identify a single achievable goal.
5 minute read
November 03, 2003 | National Law Journal

A Dose of Healthy Disagreement

Cass Sunstein's Why Societies Need Dissent is a social scientist's warning to regimes that discourage dissent: enforce conformity at your own risk, not because the people will rebel, but because you cannot govern without the benefit of diverse perspectives.
9 minute read
March 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Speed Dialing

For Simpson Thacher partner?and Dealmaker of the Year?Alan Klein, a three-week turnaround window made timing the essential ingredient in Microsoft's acquisition of Skype.
4 minute read
October 01, 2002 | Law.com

Managing in the Age of Anxiety

Managing associates and sustaining morale becomes more complicated when the economy tanks. Once a large law firm lays off associates for economic reasons, associates almost everywhere grow anxious and managing partners may be missing just how much layoffs spook the current generation of associates.
9 minute read
April 11, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Efficient Market Analysis for Fraud-on-the-Market Presumption

In their Corporate and Securities Litigation column, Sarah S. Gold, a partner at Proskauer Rose, and Richard L. Spinogatti, a senior counsel at the firm, analyze a recent decision that declined to certify a class of stockholders of Freddie Mac preferred stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange, finding that plaintiffs could not avail themselves of the fraud-on-the-market presumption to establish class-wide reliance since they were unable to demonstrate that the stock traded in an efficient market.
14 minute read
April 04, 2012 | Delaware Business Court Insider

What to Do When the Injunction Is Denied but the Directors Made a Mistake

Recently, the Delaware Court of Chancery has found wrongful conduct but denied the remedy plaintiffs sought. The El Paso case is a prime example.
5 minute read
June 14, 2000 | Law.com

Summer Fun

When New York City heats up and summer associates hit the firms, law firms want to have the coolest summer program around. With Broadway and baseball games the standard for many years, New York recruiting coordinators are trying to add excitement to their summer programs by adding new activities. And this summer, the pastimes are shifting from the sedentary to the interactive. To see what they are at 20 Top New York Firms, view the chart.
6 minute read
January 19, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

U.S. High Court Hears Texas Capital Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in three Texas death penalty cases that were billed as a test of wills between the high court and lower court judges who have effectively defied its decisions on the use of mitigating evidence.
5 minute read
August 07, 2013 | Law.com

For Civil Rights Advocates, a New Fight Over Voting

Recent weeks have brought several déjà vu moments for Barbara Arnwine and for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which she has led as president since 1989.
5 minute read
February 27, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Voting rights law gets Supreme Court challenge

The Supreme Court's conservative justices voiced deep skepticism Wednesday about a section of a landmark civil rights law that has helped millions of Americans exercise their right to vote.
6 minute read

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