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December 16, 2008 |

A moment's notice for Lehman

By the second week of September, investors had all but given up on Lehman Brothers Holings Inc. Creditors wanted the 158-year-old investment bank to put up additional collateral to cover its bets in the derivatives market. Customers were scrambling to close accounts. Traders couldn't move the firm's commercial paper, or settle trades.
18 minute read
August 06, 2012 |

A Strong Supreme Court Term for Business

Lost in the glare of the Supreme Court's landmark decisions in June was the fact that the business community did very well last term. A tally by Mayer Brown of the 25 business-related cases the court decided last term shows that the business side won 19 times and lost only three. In the remaining three cases, business interests were represented on both sides.
4 minute read
July 10, 2003 |

Women GCs Hold Their Ground

When it comes to running the in-house legal departments of America's largest businesses, it's still a man's world. Women make up a mere 13 percent of the general counsel at Fortune 500 companies, according to a survey by Recorder-affiliate Corporate Counsel magazine. However, there are some bright spots, especially in the Bay Area, which boasted one of the survey's largest concentration of women GCs, including Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Ann Baskins.
4 minute read
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June 27, 2002 |

9th Circuit Tosses Out the Pledge of Allegiance

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday struck down a morning ritual for countless schoolchildren -- the recitation of the pledge of allegiance. A divided three-judge panel held that the words "one nation under God" violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, making the court the first to sustain a constitutional challenge to public invocations of God that had, until now, been ruled merely ceremonial.
6 minute read
August 17, 2007 |

Solicitor general sides against SEC

9 minute read
October 15, 2013 |

Coffee Talk: How to Advocate in the Public Sphere

John Hellerman and Spencer Baretz, co-founders of Hellerman Baretz Communications, write: Lawyers are frequently called on to communicate effectively with the public. It's a much different discipline than advocating before a judge or negotiating a contract, a distinction that is sometimes lost on lawyers to their detriment.
8 minute read
May 20, 2013 |

Implications of Statute Establishing Unemployed as a Protected Group

Geoffrey A. Mort, of counsel to Kraus & Zuchlewski, discusses the stigma of unemployment and the New York City act, which takes effect in mid-June and represents the most assertive legal step taken to date anywhere in this country to assist the unemployed after several years of efforts in a number of states to address this issue.
9 minute read
July 01, 2010 |

Deferral Economics

The recession affected The Am Law 200's pro bono commitment--for good and for ill.
9 minute read

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