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10-19-2011

First Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams Donated $3 Million to Yale Law School

Floyd Abrams, one of the country's leading experts in freedom of speech has donated $3 million to Yale Law School to start an institute focused on freedom of speech. At Yale Law School, the Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom o....[more]
10-19-2011

Susan Mac Cormac is Promoting the Cause of Environmental Sustainability

Morrison & Foerster's business department and the cleantech group's co-chair, Susan Mac Cormac has been endorsing the cause of environmental sustainability among what is seen as swiftly declining and radically mispriced natural resources. She calls it ‘the mission of my life'. This mission has con....[more]
10-18-2011

Statoil Turns to Vinson & Elkins for Legal Counsel Over $ 4.4 Billion Deal

Statoil, Norwegian Energy Company, has plans to take over Austin, Texas–based Brigham Exploration. The deal of $4.4 billion cash was announced on Monday. This deal is Statoil's strategy of expanding grip in various unconventional energy resources. Vinson & Elkins is appointed as the legal adviser ....[more]
10-18-2011

Shearman & Sterling Will Advice Amerigas Partners on $2.9 Billion Acquisition Deal

AmeriGas Partners plans to buy the propane operations of Energy Transfer Partners. The deal of about $2.9 billion is expected to close by early 2012. The firm will pay Energy Transfer $1.5 billion in cash and $1.3 billion in stock and will assume $71 million in debt from Heritage Operating and Titan....[more]
10-18-2011

Allen & Overy Added Partner to Its Financial Services Practice in DC

Former O'Melveny & Myers regulatory partner, Bill Satchell is joining Allen & Overy. His expertise will help the law firm to expand consumer finance and enforcement practice areas in Washington. Bill Satchell was associated with O'Melveny's Washington, DC office as a partner and also a member of the....[more]
10-17-2011

Tax Fraud Charges on Leslie Jacobs

Leslie Jacobs was charged with tax fraud in federal court in Ohio on Thursday. He is a senior partner in Thompson Hine's competition, antitrust and white collar crime practice group and also a former president of the Ohio State Bar Association. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of....[more]
10-17-2011

Four Lawyers Join Indian Law and Tribal Representation Practice of SNR Denton

SNR Denton has strengthened its Indian Law Practice by hiring three lawyers from Patton Boggs and one from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. Heather Sibbison is joining as a partner and Suzanne Schaeffer and George Skibine are as counsel and ....[more]
10-17-2011

Father-Son Litigation Entangles Patterson Belknap

Patterson Belknap and former partner Clay Pierce were accused by Eric Hadar, his real estate investment firm Allied Partners, and his family trust for breaching their ethical and fiduciary Belknap assisted Hadar's father, Richard Hadar, in a so-called "bad faith campaign" against the younger Hadar a....[more]
10-14-2011

Wachtell Will Advise Pratt & Whitney On $1.5 Billion Aircraft Engine Purchase

The United Technologies owned aircraft engine company- Pratt & Whitney, is planning to pay $1.5 billion for Rolls Royce Group’s stake in International Aero Engines (IAE). After the completion of the deal, Pratt & Whitney will own the majority of the engine joint venture, doubling its stake from 32....[more]
10-14-2011

Censure for Ex-Am Law 100 Partner Approved By D.C. Court

A public censure for former Saul Ewing and Venable partner Sheryl Robinson Wood has been approved by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, after she confessed about her intimate contact with former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick while serving as a court-appointed monitor of the city’s police ....[more]
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