By B. Colby Hamilton | July 6, 2017
The first case on which Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy partner Sean Murphy was assigned right out of law school in the mid-1990s was in the somewhat unique securities litigation world created by the Investment Company Act of 1940. The beginnings were auspicious, as Murphy has become a leading litigator in the area, helping to make Milbank arguably the top firm to handle investor suits against investment advisers under the even more specific Section 36, which governs fiduciary duties.
By Christine Simmons | July 5, 2017
In the age of at-your-fingertips social media, some defense attorneys are struggling with a new challenge: controlling their own clients.
By Brian Baxter | June 27, 2017
Haley Guiliano, a boutique firm specializing in patent prosecution and other intellectual property work, will officially separate from Ropes & Gray on Aug. 1. The new firm will combine operations with Shvarts & Leiz, a small shop comprised of fellow Ropes & Gray alums, and have offices in London, New York and San Jose, California.
By B. Colby Hamilton | June 19, 2017
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's push to compel ExxonMobil to produce additional documents as part of its fraud case against the energy company has been clipped, at least for the time being, by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager.
By Rebecca Baker | June 13, 2017
William J. Madonna gained recognition as the attorney for the Pelham Parkway Preservation Alliance, working to preserve dozens of trees near and along Pelham Parkway from destruction during a city road project. His unexpected passing has left the legal community in the Bronx and elsewhere in shock.
By Meghan Tribe | June 12, 2017
The Am Law 200 firm has hired commercial litigation partner Adam Grant in New York, where he spent the past two years at Polsinelli, having joined that firm in May 2015 from what is now Kasowitz Benson Torres.
By B. Colby Hamilton | June 7, 2017
It could be a worst-case scenario for any trial attorney: a key witness has gone sideways and threatens to blow up the case. In conversations with practitioners, the threat is one that even the best attorneys face. But they point to ways to try and mitigate that possibility and to keep things from going belly-up.
By Christine Simmons | May 26, 2017
Nola Heller, chief of the violent and organized crime unit at the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, is leaving in June to become a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel.
By Brian Baxter | May 25, 2017
Matthew Parrott, head of the New York real estate and distressed debt litigation group at Katten Muchin Rosenman, has joined Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson as a partner in Manhattan. Fried Frank, riding high from a successful financial year in 2016, has been busy on the lateral recruitment front in 2017.
By Jason Grant | May 24, 2017
Fox News fired back at Andrea Tantaros on Wednesday, claiming that her allegations against the network were an "outright hoax," and requesting sanctions that include a dismissal of the case and a disciplinary referral for Judd Burstein, Tantaros' Manhattan-based lawyer.
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