Wachtell
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Health Care / Medicine
Celgene To Sell Psoriasis Drug To Amgen For $13.4B, Clearing Key Hurdle To BMS Deal
Sullivan & Cromwell, Kirkland & Ellis, Arnold & Porter, Wachtell, and Baker Botts all have their hands on this deal. - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Biglaw
This Biglaw Firm Is Super Picky About Law School On-Campus Recruitment
Wachtell is only visiting truly elite law schools.
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Biglaw
What Biglaw M&A Practice Is Already Killing It In 2018?
The rest of the market seems to be doing well too. -
Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
Why Did I Go From Biglaw To Litigation Finance? Good Question.
Whether you're working as a reporter, a Biglaw associate, or in litigation finance, it's always about asking the right questions. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.19.17
* Hot on the heels of the news that Amazon would be purchasing Whole Foods, legal nerds wanted to know which firms would be handling the $13.7B transaction. SullCrom is representing Amazon and Wachtell is representing Whole Foods in Bezos’s bid to sell asparagus water on Prime. [Texas Lawyer]
* Governor Andrew Cuomo has nominated Appellate Division Justice Paul Feinman to replace the late Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam on the New York Court of Appeals. If confirmed, Feinman will be first the first openly gay judge to be seated on the bench of New York’s highest court. Congrats! [Journal News]
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herhis emails! The state of Indiana will be paying “small-town firm” McNeely Stephenson $100K to handle a backlog of public records requests having to do with the contents of then Governor Mike Pence’s private AOL account from which he conducted state business over email. [Chicago Tribune]* Shortly after a mistrial was declared in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case, his spokesman had some sarcastic remarks to share with those who represented the comedians accusers: “For all those attorneys who conspired — like Gloria Allred — tell them to go back to law school and take another class.” [FOX News Insider]
* Legal documents related to the dissolution of annoying jingle firm Cellino & Barnes are currently under seal, but several media outlets are trying to convince a judge to unseal the records because the “litigation over the dissolution of [the firm] is an issue of local and national importance.” [New York Daily News]
* “They’ve been great at dodging this. But they know they’re not going to be able to dodge it for much longer.” New York City may finally do away with its nearly century-old ban on dancing in restaurants, bars, and clubs thanks to a proposed a bill seeking the repeal of the city’s 1926 “Cabaret Law.” [New York Post]
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Biglaw, Partner Issues
Marty Lipton Of Wachtell Lipton: Age 85 And Still Going Strong
Early birthday wishes to Marty Lipton! -
Biglaw, Mergers and Acquisitions
Evaluating Global M&A: A Bad Year... Except For One Firm
How are we going to afford all those raises? - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Biglaw, Rankings, Vault rankings
Move Over Wachtell, There's A New Firm At The Top -- Vault Top 100 Firms (2017)
There's a new most prestigious firm in town. -
Bankruptcy, Career Center, Career Files, Law Students, Lawyers, Rankings
ATL's Top Law Firm Bankruptcy Practices
These are the firms that work to allow distressed corporations a fresh start. -
Biglaw, Partner Issues
Stats Of The Week: The Last Of The True Biglaw Partnerships
As Biglaw begins to run itself more like a “business,” vestiges of the traditional law partnership have started to fall away. -
Benchslaps, Federal Judges
Judge Trolls Lawyers Without Saying Anything At All
A novel approach to benchslapping overzealous attorneys. -
Biglaw, Magic Circle, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, United Kingdom / Great Britain
The Magic Circle vs. New York's Elite
A comparison of the recent financial performance of the top U.K. and New York law firms.
Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Books, Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Media and Journalism, Politics, Quote of the Day
Blowing Up Eric Holder's Phone
What does Glenn Greenwald think of Hillary Clinton, and how much did he earn as a first-year Wachtell associate back in the 1990s? -
Biglaw, Fabulosity, Partner Issues, Partner Profits
New Partner Watch: Incoming Partner Classes at 10 Top Firms
What do the incoming partner classes at 10 leading law firms reveal about the state of Biglaw? -
Biglaw, Celebrities, Fabulosity, Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Partner Issues, Real Estate, Sports
Lawyerly Lairs: Two $3 Million Apartments Are Better Than One
How much did this young Wachtell partner pay for these two amazing apartments? -
Antonin Scalia, Biglaw, Job Searches, King & Spalding, Rudeness, Screw-Ups
Rejection Letters of the Day: When They REALLY Don't Want You
Here are two examples of what NOT to do when sending out rejection letters. -
4th Circuit, Bar Exams, Biglaw, Deaths, Divorce Train Wrecks, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Law Schools, Martin Lipton, Money, Morning Docket, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 07.18.13
* It’s Alito time, bitch! If you were wondering about any of the cases in which the justice recused himself last year, his latest financial disclosure report is quite telling. [Blog of Legal Times]
* Yet another appellate court has ruled that Obama’s recess appointments to the NLRB were unconstitutional. Alright, we get it, just wait for the Supreme Court to rule. [TPM LiveWire]
* Hey baby, nice package: With stock awards soaring, general counsel at some of the world’s largest companies had a great year in 2012 in terms of compensation. [Corporate Counsel]
* NYU Law professors want Martin Lipton of Wachtell Lipton to swallow a poison pill and step down from the school’s board of trustees over his ties to the University’s unpopular president. [Am Law Daily]
* Now that they’ve stopped acting like the doll they were arguing about in court, MGA has put aside its differences with Orrick to amicably settle a fee dispute in the Bratz case. [National Law Journal]
* Who needs to go on a post-bar vacation when you can take a vacation while you’re studying for the bar? This is apparently a trend right now among recent law school graduates. Lucky! [New York Times]
* A man puts assets into his pin-up wife’s name on advice of counsel, she files for divorce, and the firm allegedly takes her as a client. This obviously happened in Florida. [Daily Business Review (sub. req.)]
* David Schubert, the deputy DA who prosecuted Paris Hilton and Bruno Mars, RIP. [Las Vegas Sun]
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Ask the Experts, Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms
From Across the Desk: Capital-Markets Centric Firms
Bruce MacEwen of Adam Smith Esq. continues his taxonomy of law firms with the capital-markets centric firms. -
Biglaw, Bracewell & Giuliani, Chadbourne & Parke, Cozen O'Connor, Fabulosity, Faegre & Benson, Money, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Rankings
The 2013 Am Law 100: A Year of 'Slow Growth'
Which firms had the biggest revenue and the highest profits per partner last year, according to the latest Am Law 100 rankings?