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Cravath partner Robert Joffe dies at 66
Robert Joffe, the former presiding partner of Cravath Swaine and Moore, died on Thursday (28 January) from cancer. He was 66. A Harvard Law school graduate, Joffe spent 42 years at Cravath. A prominent litigator and adviser to corporate boards, he ...
29 Jan 2010 | 16:58
Budget bombshells
The pre-Budget report delivered by Alistair Darling last December proposed little in the way of tax changes. The state of the public finances allowed for no generosity, while the election cycle meant only a few tax rises were announced. As in the s...
26 Jan 2010 | 14:08
Thoughts on 2010 – survival for those who aren't retiring
It was another conference where the divide between law firms and clients was being gently massaged, when the conversation turned harsh and funny. One general counsel was clearly frustrated. He'd lived through a year of deep budget cuts and layoffs. He...
04 Jan 2010 | 16:40
A question of guilt
The recent convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have been front page news. A finding of guilt against Knox and Sollecito was always going to arouse controversy, particularly since the way that they behaved afterward the murder may well ha...
10 Dec 2009 | 16:43
Morris: Reports of Dubai's death are greatly exaggerated
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" said Mark Twain when his obituary was published. And so might be said about Dubai. It doesn't mean the emirate isn't feeling lousy, but the story isn't finished - the patient is sick and the cure may b...
09 Dec 2009 | 14:55
Full service
Howard Kennedy's Dov Katz on combining life as a corporate partner with an international table tennis career... I recently returned from the Maccabiah Games, the Jewish Olympics, winning bronze for Great Britain in the men's table tennis team event. T...
07 Dec 2009 | 00:00
Obama lays down the law
Speed and change have so far been the hallmark of the Obama administration, at least in the business and financial services world. We saw it first in the bankruptcy court. Within 45 days, a deal was struck and closed to sell Chrysler's operating as...
04 Dec 2009 | 17:06
By any other name
Lawyers advising agents or principals on the application of the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 will be aware of the need to keep up to date with case law in this area. Although the regulations have been in force since the mid-1...
04 Dec 2009 | 17:05
Jedi lawyer watches over Star Wars empire
David Anderman insists that he has never been bored during his 11 years with his current employers - Lucasfilm, the production company founded in 1971 by Star Wars creator George Lucas. In 1973, Lucasfilm released its second feature film, American ...
27 Nov 2009 | 11:51
Quinn Emanuel raises stakes in Lehman-Barclays dispute
The official creditors committee in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy fired the latest shot on Tuesday (24 November) in the dispute between Lehman and Barclays over whether Barclays received an improper 'windfall' in its purchase of Lehman's North Americ...
25 Nov 2009 | 12:50
Rating the ratings
Last week we tried to keep pace with the brouhaha over the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Value Index, culminating in the unauthorised publishing by Above The Law of the supposedly confidential data. Launched at its annual meeting in Octobe...
19 Nov 2009 | 14:52
Fired Bank of America GC tells his side of the story
When former Bank of America general counsel Tim Mayopoulos learned on 9 December last year that losses at Merrill Lynch were almost twice what he was originally told, he asked to speak with the bank's chief financial officer (CFO) about it immediately...
17 Nov 2009 | 10:21
Microsoft finds a low-cost window to battle those pricey pirates
Microsoft doesn't take piracy lightly. Last year the software giant filed dozens of lawsuits against counterfeit software makers. And with few exceptions, they were, like most piracy cases, similar and predictable. That's why piracy cases are ideal...
11 Nov 2009 | 12:02
Better ways to spend your late twenties
Last week a reader wrote in to Career Clinic asking whether 27 is too old to start a career in law. The overwhelming response from Legal Week readers was: "Of course not!"
02 Nov 2009 | 10:57
Wachtell under fire
Amid the piles and piles of formerly privileged documents related to the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger, there are a few notes and emails from mid-December 2008 showing that Bank of America's lawyers at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz were saying v...
27 Oct 2009 | 09:46
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