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Washington Catches the Associate-Raise Fever
O'Melveny & Myers said Thursday it would increase its first-year associate salaries in Washington, D.C., to $145,000 -- and in turn threw down a challenge to D.C.-based firms, saying the market for talent had changed. Following that announcement, Hogan & Hartson almost immediately said it was matching the number. The latest raises come on the heels of a flurry of pay increases during the past few days in other key legal markets.This could be a game changer, folks--and it couldn't come at a more critical moment for opponents of the deals that keep generic drugs off the market.
The Justice Department has been accused by a bankruptcy judge of engaging in "unacceptable conduct" in reaching a settlement with Kaye Scholer, which in turn has been blamed for acting unethically in advising GSC Group in the investment firm's Chapter 11 proceedings. Judge Shelley Chapman's attack on the department came during a Tuesday hearing.
FCC's Role in Telecom Mergers Questioned
Charging that the Federal Communications Commission's review of telecommunications industry mergers is impeding competition, several members of Congress are pushing proposals to alter the agency's role in the process. Some say the FCC is slowing down deals among phone, cable and wireless companies by sitting on merger applications, applying arbitrary evaluation standards and imposing costly conditions on merging parties.A week after the firm resolved claims that it mishandled its application to work on GSC Group's Chapter 11 filing, two Kaye Scholer lawyers are due to testify Tuesday about what a key figure in the case said at a critical meeting with Justice Department lawyers.
Ever since Visa and MasterCard reached a $7.2 billion agreement to resolve merchant claims over credit card "swipe fees," critics have been coming out of the woodwork. Now they've formally opposed the class action settlement in court, with the objector's lawyers at Constantine Cannon warning of "serious risks" if the deal is approved.
How Boardrooms Are Handling Internal Probes
Morgan Stanley's decision to call in Paul Weiss rather than rely on its primary outside counsel to conduct an independent, internal investigation of the Chris Curry scandal is becoming more common in corporate boardrooms across the country.Trending Stories
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