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March 07, 2003 |

7 minute read
December 12, 2012 |

6 Ways the Sustainability Movement Will Affect Your Company

The global sustainability movement, with its strong constituency and sophisticated advocacy at both local and global levels, is a growing phenomenon, with far-reaching implications for businesses everywhere.
7 minute read
October 25, 2005 |

Law as a Tin of Beans

In an ongoing effort to make the legal system more consumer-friendly, the British government has proposed sweeping reforms that would allow the government to license alternative business structures for law firms, including outside ownership by investors and stock exchange listings. A minister at the Department of Constitutional Affairs said she envisioned a legal system where someone could pick a lawyer "as easily as they can buy a tin of beans." Could such radical notions take hold elsewhere?
4 minute read
March 04, 2009 |

In The Trenches: Howard Dean joins McKenna

McKenna Long Aldridge has landed Howard B. Dean III, the former Vermont governor, Democratic presidential candidate and, most recently, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, for its national government affairs practice.Dean will be based in the firm's Washington office as an independent consultant, and will serve as a strategic adviser to its health care and energy clients, said Eric J.
6 minute read
March 10, 2000 |

Genetically Enhanced Profits

The GMO (genetically modified organisms) disclaimer soon will be stamped on some U.S. exports thanks to the biosafety trade pact recently signed in Montreal. Despite worries, conditions still remain favorable in Europe and the United States for the patenting of transgenic plants and their products. The new labeling requirements for exports are vague enough and limited enough to have little impact on industry and elicit a "so what?" from most consumers.
12 minute read
January 14, 2010 |

Banks have more bite when allowed to bark

Sherlock Holmes once solved a mystery by concentrating on "the dog that didn't bark." In the story "Silver Blaze," the detective's point was that sometimes it is more useful to look at what isn't happening than what is. In financial markets, there is now a dog that isn't barking: Very few new banks are appearing.
4 minute read
September 04, 2013 |

Continental Breakfast: John Bennett, Berwin Leighton Paisner

American Lawyer chief European correspondent Chris Johnson meets regularly with senior legal sector figures at their favorite breakfast joints to chew over the industry's tastiest talking points. This week, John Bennett, international business partner of London-based Berwin Leighton Paisner, discusses the firm's innovative client outsourcing initiative: Managed Legal Services.
10 minute read
August 07, 2008 |

International Posts: Clifford Chance's Nicholas Fletcher, in Warsaw

Nicholas Fletcher graduated with an LL.B. from Bristol University in 1983 and has been with Clifford Chance -- the world's largest law firm by revenue -- ever since. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Englishman crossed the channel and set up shop in Warsaw, where he became the managing partner four years later. Now, after 14 years in Poland, Fletcher will be entering another former Eastern Bloc country with a new legal system when Clifford Chance opens an office in Kiev, Ukraine.
6 minute read
February 29, 2008 |

Dell recovery plan falters as PCs languish at retailers

Michael Dell gave himself until August to prove he can rescue his personal computer company by selling machines through retailers. Shoppers at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. aren't buying it. Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sony Corp. are crowding out Dell Inc. computers at chains including Wal-Mart and Staples Inc., said Cowen Co.
4 minute read
February 01, 2013 |

Help Can't Wait

The new top lawyer for the American Red Cross brings a global perspective; and other Moves.
9 minute read

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