DiversityisNatural.com is Launched.
New Web Site Creates Forum for Addressing Issues Related to the Advancement of Women and Minorities in the Legal Profession ROSELAND, N.J., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Lowenstein Sandler has launched DiversityisNatural.com, a new Web site dedicated to fostering the advancement and promotion of women and minority attorneys...

Crowell & Moring Adds Antitrust and Securities Litigation Partner Daniel Edelman in New York.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce the addition of partner Daniel D. Edelman to the firm's Commercial Litigation Group in New York. A seasoned litigator with extensive experience representing clients in antitrust and securities cases, Edelman's move enhances Crowell & Moring's ongoing...

Butler Rubin Names Jason Dubner and Amy Kelley as Partners.
CHICAGO, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chicago-based law firm Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP has named Jason S. Dubner and Amy B. Kelley to the partnership, effective January 1, 2007. Both Dubner and Kelley joined Butler Rubin in 1999 after beginning their careers with major law firms. ...

A brief brush with Enron: I remember thinking, 'I just don't understand how this company works.'.
ALMOST UNNOTICED in all the excitement when the White House changes hands from one party to the other is the operation of an iron law of politics: For each high-spirited newcomer, one weary officeholder from the outgoing administration is packing files and memories in cardboard boxes, saying goodbye to...

Follow the money.
After years of vying to be the least accessible campaign finance website in the nation, Missouri's Internet place to go for discovering who gives what to whom took a small step forward last month. As promptly reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's experienced Jefferson City reporter Virginia...

Charles M. Walker, Law Firm Name Partner and Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury for Tax Policy Under Gerald Ford, Passes Away.
LOS ANGELES, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP today confirmed that one of its name partners, Charles M. Walker, passed away Saturday April 7, 2001 at Saint Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California. In 1962, Mr. Walker joined with Lee G. Paul, Robert...

Zurich N.A., Chadbourne, Veris Chairing Reinsurance & Arbitration Conference.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Eight major reinsurance companies and five leading law firms, plus reinsurance intermediaries, forensic accounting firms, mediators and others will join at the Westin Grand here on March 2-3 to deliver papers and presentations at the "Reinsurance Claims & Arbitration Conference." The event...

Former Deputy Solicitor General Thomas G. Hungar Returns to Gibson Dunn's DC Office.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Thomas G. Hungar will return to the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a partner and Co-Chair of the firm's Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group. After serving for the past five years as Deputy...

Gibson Dunn Promotes 13 Lawyers to Partner for 2009.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has elected 13 new partners, effective January 1, 2009. The new partners represent a wide range of practice areas and geographical regions. "We are happy to continue to acknowledge...