Corporate Legal Dept. and Law Firm Team to Provide Legal Services to Abused Women
ExxonMobil and Fulbright develop unique partnership through Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program.
The Thirsty Horse
Weil Gotshal Partner Sylvia Mayer points the way to a better pro bono program.
Chapter 11: Entering a New Generation
Here we are in 2011, thirty-three years after the enactment of the federal Bankruptcy Code.
The Fine Art of the Benchslap
by John Browning, Lawyer Contributor Lawyers frequently compare notes about judges, particularly those with a reputation for being tough or demanding.
Risks and Mistakes Come with the Territory: The Difficult Task of the SEC
I served as an enforcement attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth Regional Office for several years in the early 2000s. Looking back with a clarity that, for me at least, comes only with hindsight, it proved to be both a fascinating and exciting time to be a federal securities enforcement lawyer. My arrival at the Commission was closely followed by the painful burst of the Internet bubble and resulting dramatic declines in virtually all of the country’s equity markets.