Florida’s Akerman Senterfitt has brought on eight attorneys for its Consumer Finance Litigation practice group. Charles Townsend joins from Bank of America as a Shareholder in Dallas. He was a…
Japanese industrial and financial conglomerate Nomura has cut up to 12 legal positions in London. The firm took over dissolved Lehman Brothers’ European and Middle East equities & investment banking…
Am Law 100 firm Proskauer Rose’s profits per equity partner dropped 10% in 2008 to $1.4 million. Revenues increased marginally, by 1%, to $634 million. Revenue per lawyer dipped slightly…
He goes by the username “Minerva,” after the Greek goddess of wisdom. He rose from anonymity in South Korea, for accurately predicting the current economic crisis. He even predicted the…
Sidley Austin lawyers are asking as much as $1,100 an hour for bankruptcy work on Tribune Company, surpassing the rates charged by Weil, Gotshal & Manges in the Lehman Brothers…
An associate of Los Angeles’ Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker was charged in a $4.8 million insider trading scheme involving a former Lehman Brothers representative and his wife, who worked at…
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