In 2001, the Medicines Company just missed the application deadline for a patent extension for its main product, Angiomax, a blood thinner. Because of this error, the patent on the…
They went from BigLaw to the Big House. Now the four former partners in Millberg Wiess Bershad Hynes & Lerach (now Millberg LLP) who pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks to clients…
Troutman Sanders is opening a new office in Portland, Ore., the firm’s 16th. Partner Lara L. Skidmore will serve as the office’s first managing partner. The office will also house…
Goodwin Procter has added three lawyers to its technology companies and intellectual property practices in its Silicon Valley office. Slated to join the firm over the next few weeks are…
Persels & Associates, a national law firm with attorneys in all 50 states, announced a new program to help people manage their debt. The firm will negotiate with creditors to…
Cadwalader, Wichersham & Taft has bolstered its litigation department with the addition of four attorneys from Proskauer Rose LLP. Joining the firm are Louis M. Solomon, Hal S. Shaftel, Colin…
Chadbourne & Parke revealed yesterday that 11 of its 2009 first-year associates, which had been deferred to a 2010 start date, will not be offered jobs with the firm. In…
Despite the tough economic climate in 2009, Cravath, Swaine & Moore managed to increase its business, the AM Law Daily reports. Revenue at the firm rose to $569 million last…
Yesterday, Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest law firm with offices in Kansas City, Missouri and Leesburg, Virginia, said it will sue the President,…
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