By Cheryl Miller | January 3, 2018
McGregor Scott, formerly a white collar partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, was sworn into office Dec. 29 in Sacramento a day after U.S. Chief District Judge Lawrence O'Neill ordered his appointment. Separately, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions named Gibson Dunn's Nicola Hanna to serve as the interim U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.
By Ryan Lovelace | January 3, 2018
The Magic Circle firm hired partner Amy Edgy from Jones Day, where she worked on bankruptcies involving Delta Airlines and coal giant Peabody Energy.
By Roy Strom | January 3, 2018
Altman Weil Inc. said there were 102 mergers last year, topping the record of 91 set in 2015. The long-running factors remain the same. But several new questions have also arisen.
By Scott Flaherty | January 2, 2018
An ex-CEO of a former LeClairRyan client has accused the firm of contributing to a scandal that led to her company's demise.
By Andrew Denney | December 29, 2017
A Massachusetts-based job recruiter said in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan that Simpson Thacher & Bartlett should cough up more than $937,000 for bringing the firm a high-profile lateral from Sullivan & Cromwell.
By Miriam Rozen | December 28, 2017
Lawyers are a loquacious bunch. Here are some of the most memorable lines our reporters gathered in 2017.
By Meghan Tribe | December 28, 2017
The Washington, D.C.-based firm has confirmed the death of John Nolan Jr., a former senior partner and Korean War veteran who once helped negotiate the release of over 1,100 prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
By Brian Baxter | December 27, 2017
William Graham, a former lawyer at the high-powered, Washington, D.C.-based Am Law 100 firm and a son of late Washington Post publisher Kay Graham, died on Dec. 20 in Los Angeles from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
By C. Ryan Barber | December 21, 2017
On Oct. 19, the White House announced its “intent to nominate” Paul Weiss antitrust partner Joseph Simons to lead the FTC. Two months later, Simons still hasn't been formally nominated. What's the delay?
By Meghan Tribe | Hank Grezlak | December 20, 2017
As the #MeToo movement spreads from the entertainment sector to politics and the courts, will big law firms face their own reckoning?
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