Headlines • Who Represents Corporate America • JPMorgan Deal's Costly Side Effects • BP Takes Aim at Spill Settlement • Class of '13 Greets its Future • The Challenges of Building a Supreme Court Practice • Low-Tier Cases On Gun Docket • Nixon's Choices — 40 Years After the 'Saturday Night Massacre' • Reports From the War of the Sexes • Lawyers in Circus Litigation Seek $25M in Fees • JPMorgan Settles With Housing Agency for $5.1B Our annual survey of the law firms that work for the nation's largest companies takes a global focus. Read More » As JPMorgan Chase & Co. hammers out a $13 billion settlement with the government, the bank has more to worry about than paying Uncle Sam and consumers. Any settlement would also have direct repercussions in a $10 billion lawsuit Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. has filed over shoddy assets. Read More » A federal appeals court this month agreed with BP PLC that there were serious problems with the processing of claims on its $9.6 billion Deepwater Horizon settlement, especially because some Gulf Coast businesses apparently were being compensated for economic losses from the oil spill that they never actually suffered. Read More » The incoming class of 2010 graduated in May, took the bar in July, and now are launching their legal careers. We recently caught up with three of them to see what they are doing now, how they feel about their law school experience and what advice they have for those following in their footsteps. Read More » Five years ago, Kannon Shanmugam left the U.S. Solicitor General's Office to build an appellate practice as a partner at the litigation firm Williams & Connolly. Recently he sat down with Legal Times to discuss building a practice at a firm that does not have practice groups, amid the competitive and economic pressures of representing clients before the nation's highest court. Read More » Guns are back before the U.S. Supreme Court this term, but the cases at hand don't target any of gun advocates' most wanted issues. Read More » Could the president have saved his job? Probably, but at a huge cost to the nation. Read More » It's time for another edition of news you shouldn't miss. This week, we're covering my favorite topic: the sexes . Read More » Lawyers for the producer of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus want the animal rights groups that unsuccessfully sued the circus to pay more than $25 million in legal fees. It's been more than a decade since the... Read More » The Federal Housing Finance Agency reached settlements worth $5.1 billion with JPMorgan Chase & Co. in connection with residential mortgage-backed securities and single-family mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the agency announced today. JPMorgan agreed to pay $4... Read More » |
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