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Ropes Gray has settled a two-year-old discrimination lawsuit brought by former partner Patricia Martone, who claimed Ropes management routinely passed her clients off to younger male partners and unfairly pushed her out of the firm. In a one-page stipulation filed … Continue reading →

In Part I of this series, I explored the possibility that a key metric—average partner profits—has lost much of its value as a measurement of anything meaningful about big law firms. Within equity partnerships of eat-what-you-kill firms, the explosive growth … Continue reading →

Like many lawyers, Glenn Colton is a baseball fan. But the Dentons white-collar and government investigations practice chair has taken his love for America’s national pastime to the next level, scoring his own fantasy baseball column for NBC Sports’s Rotoworld … Continue reading →

Font Size: BynbspBrian BaxterContactAll Articles The Am Law Daily May 15, 2013 Kirkland Ellis clinched its latest large MA deal on Wednesday as private equity client Pamplona Capital Management acquired the largest laundry equipment service provider in the U.S., as … Continue reading →

Earlier this year, while standing before a group of 100 men imprisoned at Polk Correctional Institution in Butner, N.C., I was struck by the remarkable full-circle opportunity ALM (the parent company and publisher of The Am Law Daily), through its … Continue reading →

Ropes counsel Ryan Malone As Ropes Gray counsel Ryan Malone got out of a cab and headed into the Washington, D.C., office of a client for a meeting on May 8, he felt his phone buzz. The call, it turned … Continue reading →

Citigroup has agreed to sell its Brazilian non-banking credit card and consumer finance unit to São Paulo-based Itaú Unibanco in a cash deal worth $1.38 billion. Announced Wednesday, the deal would see Itaú Unibanco acquire Citi’s Credicard unit, which includes … Continue reading →

Facebook finds that a vast majority—65 percent—of women in their 20s and 30s take their husband’s names. And even more women do so in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. “It reflects that for the married female population, keeping your maiden … Continue reading →

A half-dozen Am Law 100 firms played key roles this week as the National Hockey League and the National Basketball Association vetoed potential franchise sales totaling more than $900 million. The scuttled NHL deal saw the league reject a $277 … Continue reading →

Font Size: By Tom Huddleston Jr.ContactAll Articles The Am Law Daily May 15, 2013 A month after shaking up the telecommunications industry by making a $25.5 billion bid to acquire Sprint Nextel, DISH Network has announced a $2.5 billion debt offering … Continue reading →