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Firms like Simpson Thacher and Skadden pushed back on Democrats' claims that their Trump deals amounted to illegal bribes.
When Rachel Cohen took a job as an associate at Skadden Arps in Chicago three years ago, she expected long hours, some tedious work, and extremely good pay. What she wasn’t expecting was to be thrust ...
Trump in March began unleashing executive orders on Big Law, targeting firms that have represented clients the president ...
A former top Obama-era White House lawyer who was acquitted at trial in 2019 on charges that he lied to federal authorities ...
George Knighton, who had spent all his career at Allen & Overy prior to his move to Skadden, is returning to the firm six ...
Law firms that are trying to push forward with diversity efforts are focusing on initiatives they see as clearly legal to ...
Multiple law firms have preemptively bent the knee to Donald Trump and agreed to provide him with free legal services.
In recent weeks, President Trump has signed orders targeting several law firms. Some lawyers warn that the president's ...
A&O Shearman has rehired M&A lawyer George Knighton from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom six years after he departed.
George Knighton rejoined A&O Shearman as a partner in its mergers and acquisitions practice, the firm announced Tuesday.
Nine major corporate law firms have groveled before President Trump ... eight other firms — Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Skadden, Milbank, Willkie, Simpson Thacher, A&O Shearman and ...
“In light of Skadden’s position, it is outrageous and self-interested that rather than fulfilling the legal profession’s oath and standing in solidarity with fellow law firms that were ...