Citi Report: Growth Slowed in the Second Quarter
Firms are still on pace to show modest gains for full-year 2016, the bank says.
Ropes Welcomes Wachtell Funds Head, Plus More Lateral Moves
The head of the private funds practice at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz joins Ropes & Gray; Clifford Chance grows in New York; Sheppard Mullin recruits in Florida; and other notable additions from throughout The Am Law 200.
After 15 Years on the Bench, a Judge Returns to McDermott
Robert Cordy, an associate justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who announced his retirement earlier this year, is poised to return to McDermott Will & Emery’s Boston office, where he once served as managing partner.
Symposium: Gay rights, religious liberty and … tire scraps? The inclusive Fourteenth Amendment path in Trinity Lutheran
Mark L. Rienzi is an associate professor at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. It is tempting to think of Trinity Lutheran Church v. Pauley as a welcome respite from the recent spate of hot-button religious liberty cases that prompt concerns from the gay rights community (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Zubik […]
Surf’s Up: Two Big Firms Ride Sport to 2020 Olympics
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton and Herrick, Feinstein played a behind-the-scenes role in advising surfing-related organizations, which successfully got the sport accepted into the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.
Friday round-up
In The Wall Street Journal, Kristina Peterson reports on recent comments by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who told reporters that “he expected Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton would re-nominate Merrick Garland for the U.S. Supreme Court if she is elected in November”; similar coverage comes from Jordain Carney for The Hill. And at Lambda […]
The ABA’S Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
The ABA thought getting a renewal of its accreditation power would be a cakewalk—until its barefoot journey over hot coals began.
Symposium: Religious freedom, not religious discrimination
Richard Katskee is the Legal Director at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He filed an amicus brief on behalf of religious and civil-rights organizations, supporting the respondent. The Framers of our federal and state constitutions saw governmental support as antithetical to religion. They had fled a country where that support incited competition […]Big Firms on Opposite Sides of Restaurant Bankruptcies
The owners of casual dining chains Logan’s Roadhouse and Fox & Hound found themselves in bankruptcy court this week in Delaware. Some large law firms grabbed Chapter 11 work related to those cases, while others are owed payments for past expenses.
Deal Watch: Seven Sisters Fly High on Olympic Site Sale
With the 2016 Summer Olympic Games underway in Rio de Janeiro, this week brought news of a sizeable M&A deal with ties to the 2010 Winter Games held in Vancouver.