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Supreme Court Brief

One of Scalia's Final Law Clerks Looks Back and Ahead

Jonathan Urick vividly remembers the last time he and his fellow law clerks saw their boss, U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia. "We were laughing and joking. He was in very high spirits, making jokes," he recalled. Ten months later, Urick is a new associate at McGuireWoods in Richmond—one of seven former Supreme Court clerks working at the firm. He is the first of Scalia's final four law clerks to publicly speak about his time in Scalia chambers that ended abruptly after the justice's death on Feb. 13.
15 minute read

Litigation Daily

2016 in Review: Game-Changing Lateral Moves

Not all lateral moves are created equal. A select few reshape the competitive landscape, changing who clients hire and why. Here's a look back at some of them in 2016.
135 minute read

The American Lawyer

Baker & Hostetler Bags Bankruptcy Role for Troubled Energy Firm

Two months after the SEC cracked down on the founders of Dakota Plains Holdings Inc., the midstream energy company filed for bankruptcy in Minneapolis shortly before Christmas. Dakota Plains, which is seeking a sale as part of its Chapter 11 proceedings, owes thousands of dollars to three law firms.
23 minute read

The American Lawyer

Top Canadian Lawyer and Family Killed in Christmas Eve Fire

Geoffrey Taber, a top Canadian technology lawyer and partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt in Toronto, was killed along with his immediate family in a Dec. 24 fire at a remote cottage in Ontario.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Partnership Dispute Leaves Ex-Big Law Partner Marooned on Alabama Coaching Staff

Undefeated in college football this year, the University of Alabama Crimson Tide are the heavy favorites to repeat as national champions in January. If they succeed, Dean Altobelli, whose official title is “analyst” on head coach Nick Saban's staff, will take home his fourth championship ring since arriving in Tuscaloosa.
87 minute read

National Law Journal

Crowell & Moring Plays Catch-Up with NY Merger Bid

When news broke that Crowell & Moring was in talks to merge with a smaller New York firm, Herrick, Feinstein, the reaction of many in Washington was one of curiosity, but not surprise.
47 minute read

National Law Journal

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

By | December 26, 2016
In his 2015 book "The Court and the World," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer highlighted the growth in the number of international legal disputes that find their way to the high court. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's recent docket of appellate cases illustrates that point to a "T."
12 minute read

National Law Journal

Goodwin Procter

The Cybor standard for reviewing patent claim construction on appeal was the law of the land for nearly 20 years. Many had tried to topple the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's 1998 decision in Cybor Corp. v. FAS Technologies Inc. and failed.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Arnold & Porter

By | December 26, 2016
10 minute read

National Law Journal

Sidley Austin

By | December 26, 2016
Just how long has Sidley Austin been a dominant force in appellate litigation? Consider this: In 1986, Carter Phillips, the firm's executive committee chairman, argued the case that generated the late Justice Antonin Scalia's first opinion, and 30 years later, he argued the case in which Scalia wrote his last.
7 minute read

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