We have read the public comments by Peter Löscher (the press releases, the choreographed interviews) of “Siemens endorses clean business” and we agree they were a tremendous help to their
Continue readingThere is an article out this morning via ALB Legal News, a news site out of Australia that we monitor, that covers the legal markets in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, along with parts of Japan,
Continue readingThe U.S. Treasury Department today announced that Thacher, Proffitt & Wood, LLP will assist the Department with its investments in the Federal Reserve’s Term Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility
Continue readingFDIC is going to hire 500 new staff. Most slots will be bank examiner jobs. But those jobs pay quite well if you have a few years of experience. For details click here. Information on the job postings
Continue readingFrom: The National Law Journal, December 16, 2008 The total federal bankruptcy filings jumped up by 30 percent for the 12-month period ending Sept. 30, with business filings climbing by 49 percent in the
Continue readingSeveral years ago a number of firms (Covington and Crowell are only two examples) started to change the way they used staffing agencies for projects. They took the temporary attorneys onto their payroll
Continue readingSiemens, the German engineering giant, agreed Monday to pay a record total of $1.6 billion to American and European authorities to settle charges that it routinely used bribes and slush funds to secure
Continue readingWe spent the last 9 days in Chicago, D.C., NYC and Philadelphia. We met with Posse List members, law firms, e-discovery companies and staffing agencies, as well as a few in-house corporate legal departments
Continue readingFrom: The American Lawyer, December 15, 2008 Timothy Pohl, one of three co-heads of Skadden Arps’ 100-lawyer corporate restructuring group, announced on Thursday that he will leave the firm next
Continue readingFrom sammylive.com: Dec 14, 2008 The Indian legal process outsourcing might be on a high with rising influx of offshore assignments amid the financial turmoil, but the sector still finds less favour
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