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L.A. Firms' Dirty Little Secret: Hourly Rates
The big firms are getting used to announcing gross revenues that have become, well, gross. They're begrudgingly willing to talk about partner draws that are moving to the million-dollar neighborhood. What the big law firms are still downright shy about are the building blocks of all that filthy lucre: billing rates. Los Angeles insiders don't want to go on the record about charging $500 for partners. Why? "When you start raising rates, you change the way lawyers view each other," says one recruiter.Cite as: In re Coudert Brothers LLP, 10 Civ. 9334, NYLJ 1202487802300, at *1 (SDNY, Decided March 21, 2011)District Judge Victor MarreroD
For White & Case, Global Expansion Was the Easy Part
Boasting almost 40 offices worldwide, White & Case has a global network that many firms are trying to emulate through their own international expansion. But the 2,000-lawyer firm has found that expanding across the globe is the easy part. Now, it's wrestling with how to best integrate and utilize the vast network it has acquired over the past three decades. How the firm will be managed going forward will be a major topic this weekend as White & Case partners meet in Prague for their annual retreat.Both Congress and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have clamped down on multi-defendant patent suits, but the changes haven't had much practical effect for defendants already ensnared in East Texas patent litigation.
Justice Jack M. Battaglia KINGS COUNTY Family Court Plaintiff was represented by Nicholas Wise, Esq. of Weitz & Luxemberg, P.C. Defendants the City of New
Cite as: In re Coudert Brothers LLP, 10 Civ. 9334, NYLJ 1202487802300, at *1 (SDNY, Decided March 21, 2011)District Judge Victor MarreroD
The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. The doctrine of unclean hands does not deny relief to a plaintiff guilty of any past misconduct; only misco
A looming trial in the case will showcase two of the country's most fearsome patent litigators — Douglas Lumish of Latham & Watkins for TransPerfect and Charles Verhoeven of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan for MotionPoint.
Genital Mutilation Is Basis for Asylum
Immigration officials erred in denying a Ghanian woman's application for asylum on the grounds that her fear of forced genital mutilation was not objectively reasonable, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. The panel overturned the decision, thereby blocking the imminent deportation of Adelaide Abankwah, 29, who has been held at a detention facility in Queens, N.Y. for two and half years. Her case has drawn international attention and the support of human rights groups.Back in 2004, when they filed a gender discrimination suit against Novartis on behalf of three female sales reps, the Sanford Wittels partners had no idea they'd make history with a record-setting $250 million punitive damages verdict. They offer penetrating insights about Novartis's handling of the case--and the ruling's impact on future employment discrimination suits.
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