January 30, 2009 6:50 PM

Are You Organized? Take Our Test to Find Out

Being disorganized can spell trouble for a lawyer. Shaky practices like commingling funds, not filing court papers promptly, and failing to call clients back are often a product of too much clutter. Complete this quiz to find out if you're in the trouble zone--and for ideas about how to work your way clear.

01/30/09 Posted by Ed Shanahan

THE AM LAW 100: Dorsey & Whitney 2008 Revenue Flat

Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney reported flat revenues with a small decrease--1.6 percent--in profits per partner for 2008.

01/30/09 Posted by Amy Kolz

Deal Roundup: Non-Pfizer Pharma Deals, Insurance Swaps, and Mining Concerns

The deals aren't dead. You've just got to look a little harder to find them. Even if it means a trip to Western Australia for a $1.1 billion mining sale. So whether it's MoFo, Skadden, or Shearman, The Am Law Daily has it all in our weekly deal roundup.

01/30/09 Posted by Brian Baxter

THE AM LAW 100: Sonnenschein's Revenues Inch Up, Profits Down 12 Percent As Partners Prep for Vegas Retreat

Gross revenue up, profits down. It's a pattern we're getting used to here at The Am Law Daily, especially among the more expansion-minded law firms of The Am Law 100. Sonnenschein is no exception.

01/30/09 Posted by Ross Todd

Consumer Law Update: Patton Boggs Bests Stroock, Chesler in AmEx case; Reed Smith, Mayer Brown Win for Sprint

Patton Boggs and several other firms successfully took on mandatory arbitration clauses companies use to keep customers from suing them in court. In California, though, a consumer effort to expand the right to file lawsuits failed to win over the state Supreme Court.

01/30/09 Posted by Zach Lowe

Scalia Blesses Rabbis; Trashes Eurotrash

At a conference on Jewish privacy law, Justice Antonin Scalia didn't hide his disdain for Europe's stance on privacy rights.

01/30/09 Posted by Michael D. Goldhaber

LETTER FROM DAVOS (VIA LONDON): Lawyers, Banking Titans, and Putin

A handful of lawyers—from Baker & McKenzie, Clifford Chance, Covington, and Freshfields--are rubbing shoulders with the great and the good this weekend at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

01/30/09 Posted by Richard Lloyd

Davis Polk, Latham on Roche's Hostile Bid for Genenetch

It's a hot time for mergers in Big Pharma, and the Swiss giant Roche thinks it can buy the remaining 44 percent of Genentech it doesn't own for $2 billion less than the already controversial price ($42 billion) it offered in July.

01/30/09 Posted by Zach Lowe

Dreier Indicted, Fond of Salma Hayek

The unsealing of a grand jury indictment against Marc Dreier on Thursday was mostly an anticlimactic event.

01/30/09 Posted by Zach Lowe

K&L Gates, Bell Boyd to Vote on Merger

K&L Gates chairman Peter Kalis says "there's a high level of confidence on both sides" that the merger will be approved when partners at his firm and at Chicago's Bell Boyd & Lloyd vote today. 

01/30/09 Posted by Nate Raymond