David Payne Law is being recognized in the Missouri Lawyers Weekly Top Verdicts 2009 with the $2 Million settlement of a complex premises liability case involving traumatic head injuries. David Payne Law & Strong-Garner-Bauer represented the Plaintiff. This case settled for policy limits within 5 ...

The class has slowly deteriorated… Jill is harsh. Professor Y: “Those you in the class with kids! What if your kid was 15 and wanted to marry a 48-year-old guitar teacher. What would you do?” Jill: “All girls boarding school!” Professor Y: “Where they beat them?& ...

A couple of weeks ago, we reported on the Vinson & Elkins bonus payouts. At the time, we noted that associates in New York were generally pleased with the payout, but associates in V&E's Texas offices -- notably, the firm's Houston office -- were not at all happy with their bonuses. The issue appea ...

White & Case lost its 13th partner to Latham & Watkins with M&A specialist Andrew Macklin becoming the latest to make the switch. Macklin made partner at White & Case in January 2009. He joined the firm in 2005 and relocated last year to the firm’s new Doha, Qatar office. Macklin’s d ...

The following is from this article by Drew Combs on the AmLaw Daily: Latham & Watkins and Manatt Phelps & Phillips are the targets of a malpractice lawsuit filed by ECC Capital Corp., which accuses the firms of botching a deal to sell its mortgage-origination business and a subprime-loan por ...

The following is from this article by Drew Combs on the AmLaw Daily: Latham & Watkins and Manatt Phelps & Phillips are the targets of a malpractice lawsuit filed by ECC Capital Corp., which accuses the firms of botching a deal to sell its mortgage-origination business and a subprime-loan por ...

Ninth Circuit Affirms District Judge’s Fee Award In One Dollar Award Case.      The circumstances of a case often dictate its result. This is the hallmark of jurisprudence, highlighted in the next fee case that we review.      In Case No. 08-15694 (9 Cir. Feb. 1, 2010) (for pub ...

(WSJ) The Food and Drug Administration is appealing a federal judge's ruling that the agency doesn't have the authority to regulate electronic cigarettes. The FDA on Monday night asked a federal appeals court in Washington to immediately stay an order that prevented the agency from blocking elect ...

By Linda Deutsch,Thomas Watkins THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors plan to charge Michael Jackson’s doctor with manslaughter rather than take the case to a grand jury, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press Tuesday. Prosecutors will file a criminal complaint against Dr. Con ...

It looks like the game of salary chicken between Mayer Brown and Sidley Austin is just about over. On Monday we noted that Mayer Brown was taking its time to let associates know whether or not their salaries will be re-frozen. Today, Mayer Brown's D.C. office announced that salaries will be raised b ...