Partners at Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy will meet Tuesday to elect James J. McAlpin Jr. to lead the Atlanta-based firm of 300 lawyers, the firm said Wednesday. McAlpin, 45, will succeed Armin G. Brecher, 61, next March as chair of the firm’s executive committee and board of partners. He will immediately assume primary responsibility […]

Clifford Chance advised MBIA Assurance SA as Financial Guarantor on a groundbreaking property securitisation to raise £813m for the development of the BBC’s London headquarters, Broadcasting House, into the largest, live broadcasting centre in the world. The art deco building will be developed by Land Securities Trillium Limited in two phases. The first is due

International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges is significantly strengthening its tax and competition law capabilities in the Paris office and is announcing the following: Stéphane Chaouat joins the Paris office on 2 June from Cleary, Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to head up its tax practice. He will be supported by Jean-Charles Béroard, who will

Arnold & Porter received the Chambers Award for USA Antitrust Law Firm of the Year tonight at a special ceremony honoring The Worlds Leading Lawyers held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London. It is the second such honor for the firm, which received the Chambers Award for Antitrust Law Firm of the

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On Friday 16th May 2003, the Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the “Kuwait” decision of Mr Justice Langley, and also confirmed that the BA aircraft loss was a 1991 Gulf War loss, rather than a loss which arose out of the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. As a result the BA excess of loss

The London office of McDermott, Will & Emery is advising Inter Lotto UK Limited, in a high profile case against Camelot Group plc (the UK National Lottery operator). Inter Lotto received a favorable judgment in the Court of Appeal in a precedent setting case in the areas of trademark law and passing off. Inter Lotto,

Both sides claimed victory in the much-publicised case brought by Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones and the publishers of OK! magazine against Hello! magazine (and various associated parties) relating to the publication by Hello! of paparazzi photographs of the couple’s New York wedding. Was this simply a case of both parties seeking to gain

A team of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood attorneys has successfully overturned a murder conviction for a death row inmate tied to a string of serial killings in northern Indiana in 1990. Alan Sharp, a federal judge for the Northern District in Indiana, ruled that the rights of Obadayah Ben-Yisrayl, an Indiana man convicted of

Federal jury awards $520.6 million in damages Microsoft Corporation improperly put patented Web browser technology into its Internet Explorer, helping the computer giant to win critical market share from rival Netscape Navigator, according to a verdict handed down today by a federal jury in Chicago. In the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of