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June 08, 2011 |

Back on Track: The percentage of minority lawyers at large firms edged up in 2011

It's not much, but it's enough to make diversity advocates in the legal profession let out a collective "phew" According to the latest Diversity Scorecard complied by The American Lawyer, a Daily Report affiliate, in 2010 big firms increased their percentage of minority attorneys by 0.2 percent, to 13.9 percent.
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Mayer Brown Convinces Ninth Circuit to Decertify Class in False Advertising Suit Against Honda
Publication Date: 2012-01-13
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A split Ninth Circuit panel has decertified a nationwide false advertising class action against Honda's U.S. subsidiary, ruling that California's consumer protection law is too different from those in other states to permit class litigation. Mayer Brown partner Donald Falk represented Honda, which was accused of including a feature on its Acura luxury cars that didn't work as promised.

July 07, 2009 |

The Layoff List: By the Numbers

Employment shifts at The Am Law 200, Global 100, and Other Firms of Note
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May 10, 2010 |

Movers

Daniel King, a partner in Frost Brown Todd's Indianapolis office, has been elected to the IndyHub Inc. board of directors. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
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November 30, 2006 |

For One Law Firm, an Unquiet Death

Not since the crash of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison has a law firm flamed out as spectacularly as Coudert Brothers. The firm once had 28 offices and 600 lawyers, and though its financial performance was fading, it was seen as a pioneer in international law. But that scope also helped undermine Coudert, which faces lease obligations from Singapore to San Francisco, and difficulties accessing money in Frankfurt and Tokyo. It was once common for Coudert partners to speak many languages. Now its creditors do.
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May 30, 2008 |

The A-List (51-200)

Lawyers like to lament the passing of their fabled past, when partners knew each other on sight, firms contented themselves to operating in one ZIP code and junior associates were not a menacing anonymous horde threatening to take out their frustrations via the blogosphere. As it happens, in the big-firm world those days aren't gone, they've just moved to the Am Law Second Hundred ranks, where firms are prosperous and growing steadily but retain the possibility of old-fashioned cohesion.
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Irell Moves to Toss Suit Claiming Bill Koch Corralled Oxbow Exec
Publication Date: 2013-01-17
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Irell & Manella has handled some interesting litigation lately for the uber-billionaire William Koch, including a suit claiming that Koch was duped into buying wine that once supposedly belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Now Irell partner John Hueston is playing defense for Koch, hoping to fend off claims that the Oxbow Group founder detained an Oxbow executive in an Old-West ghost town on his Colorado ranch.

March 17, 2010 |

Survey Shows Pa. Law Firms Don't Shine When It Comes to Diversity

Whether they moved up or down in the ranks of this month's Diversity Scorecard in Legal affiliate The American Lawyer, most Pennsylvania-based firms have little to show when it comes to the number of minorities in their ranks.
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May 14, 1999 |

Commission Can Keep on Stinging Judges

The Cal. Commission on Judicial Performance can continue to issue "stinger" letters to state judges and doesn't have to provide full-blown hearings to do so, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday. But in deciding a closely watched challenge of CJP practices, the justices handed a mixed bag to the commission and the judges who may be hauled before it.
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