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The American Lawyer

Squire Patton Boggs Strikes Alliance With Trump's Lawyer

Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer to President Donald Trump who started his own firm two weeks ago, has agreed to form a strategic alliance with global legal giant Squire Patton Boggs.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Veterans of Past EPA Battles Eye Trump's Climate Moves

With climate change poised to fall off of the Environmental Protection Agency's agenda under President Donald Trump, one group is paying particularly close attention: the lawyers who fought over putting climate on the agency's agenda in the first place.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Schulte Roth Holds Steady With Modest Increases in Its 2016 Financial Results

The firm's key financial metrics grew by less than 3 percent.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Deal Watch: Five Firms Help ConocoPhillips Escape Oil Sands

One of the world's largest independent oil exploration and production companies is bidding adieu to Canada's massive oil sands. Three leading Canadian firms and a pair of Am Law 100 shops have grabbed lead roles on a $13.3 billion deal by Houston-based ConocoPhillips' to unload the bulk of its assets up north.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

6 Wins Before SCOTUS and a Spinoff

Jenner & Block's pro bono work dates back to at least the 1950s, when a small group of the firm's lawyers began representing indigent criminals in…
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Firm Earns 25 Clemency Grants for Inmates

Michael Walsh, a Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom litigation associate in Boston, could have let the Clemency Project be a one-day engagement. He ended 2015 by helping his firm go through hundreds of applications for inmates seeking clemency under an Obama administration initiative.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Ex-SEC Enforcer Khuzami Foresees Changes for Whistleblowers

Few attorneys have had a career as broad and varied as Robert Khuzami's, which has ranged from private practice to federal prosecutor to bank general counsel to enforcement director at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Protecting the Disabled, in Jail and in School

For the six weeks Abreham Zemedagegehu — an Ethiopian deaf man charged with theft — was jailed in Arlington County, he was not given access…
3 minute read

National Law Journal

A SCOTUS Win Over Florida Death Sentencing

In 2016, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr pro bono lawyers upended the death sentencing scheme in Florida and other states, opened the door to potentially thousands of dollars in federal contracts for veteran-owned small businesses, and reined in how certain offenses count toward deportation and enhanced sentences. And that was just in the U.S. Supreme Court.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Lateral Report: The Few, the Proud, the March Movers

There weren't many run-of-the-mill lateral litigator moves in March, the kind where a mid-level partner at Big Firm A moves to Big Firm B, spouting something about platforms and synergy. Instead, the most notable March moves were propelled by something extra.
7 minute read

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