Bear Stearns
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Bear Stearns, Trials, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
Acquittals for Two Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers
Congratulations to Williams & Connolly and Hughes Hubbard & Reed, the firms that represented Ralph Cioffi, and Brune & Richard, the litigation boutique that represented Matthew Tannin. Ed. note: This post has been corrected; an earlier version switched the defendants around. Thanks for pointing out the mistake, commenters. Not Guilty! [Dealbreaker] Breaking News: Bear Defendants […] -
Bear Stearns, Celebrities, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 10.12.09
* Is everybody ready for the upcoming Bear Stearns trial? Here’s the pregame information you need to know. [Dealbook] * In the matter of Jon v. Kate, maybe people don’t have enough sympathy for Jon? I don’t know, China’s “one child” rule looks better and better every day. [Double X] * With all the talk […] - Sponsored
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Bear Stearns, Job Survey, Wall Street
Associate Life Survey: Life After Lehman Brothers?
As the Fed steps in to save the financial world with a bridge to nowhere AIG, we pause to reflect on the results from Monday’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, which asked whether the woes of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch would hurt your career. We received 830 responses, and quite a few of them […]
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Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase, Layoffs
International Layoff Watch: JPMorgan Chases Out Bear Stearns Lawyers
Lawyer layoffs: they’re not just an American phenomenon. Last month, for example, DLA Piper laid off lawyers in London. Here’s more layoff news from that fair city, from TheLawyer.com: More than half of the UK lawyers at US investment bank Bear Stearns have been axed since the collapsed bank was taken over by JPMorgan. Out of 23 lawyers […] -
Bear Stearns, Biglaw, Job Survey, Wall Street
Featured Job Survey: A Bears Market?
With JPMorgan quintupling its offer for Bear Stearns earlier this morning, it seems like an appropriate time to discuss last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, which asked you whether you were afraid the recent Bear Stearns collapse would hurt your career. Twenty-seven percent of you said yes. New Yorkers were the most concerned, with […] -
Bear Stearns, Mergers and Acquisitions, Screw-Ups, Wall Street
Wachtell Lipton: Fallible After All?
As we can see from the comments, you’re already all over this NYT story. We linked to it in Morning Docket, but here’s a little more. Andrew Ross Sorkin writes: JPMorgan and Bear were prompted to renegotiate after shareholders began threatening to block the deal and it emerged that several “mistakes” were included in the […] -
10th Circuit, Bear Stearns, Celebrities, Divorce Train Wrecks, Guns / Firearms, Morning Docket, Public Interest, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 03.18.08
* “Are we headed for another Great Depression?” [McClatchy] * Quelle surprise: Bear Stearns shareholder lawsuit (filed in S.D.N.Y. by Coughlin Stoia). [Bloomberg; WSJ Law Blog (PDF of complaint)] * Speaking of Bear Stearns, here are some law firms losing out on BSC business. [WSJ Law Blog] * Tenth Circuit reverses convictions of former Qwest […]