Videos

May 15 (Bloomberg) — Shonali Bhowmik, leader of the indie rock band Tigers and Monkeys, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about her transition from Emory Law School to a career in music. The singer, songwriter and guitar player is also a co-producer of the hit show Variety Shac at UCB Theater. (Source: Bloomberg)

May 14 (Bloomberg) — Eric Lasker, partner at Hollingsworth LLP, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about successfully defending DynCorp International Inc. in U.S. federal court litigation with several thousand Ecuadorian citizens over claims of widespread environmental damages and alleged exposure to toxins through an aerial herbicide spraying operation and anti-narcotics effort known as “Plan [...]

May 13 (Bloomberg Law) — Turns out Case Western Reserve University School of Law Dean Lawrence Mitchell may have been right. In January, he told us that the ABA and National Association for Law Placement look at jobs data on recent grads the wrong way: “You’re looking at a 9 month picture out. …I suspect [...]

May 9 (Bloomberg) — Although Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is out of bankruptcy a year, the case continues to make law. As Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia and Bloomberg News bankruptcy columnist Bill Rochelle discuss on their video, Lehman is becoming a test case to decide whether a prohibition in one specific provision in bankruptcy law [...]

May 8 (Bloomberg) — Reverend Luther Zeigler, an Episcopal chaplain at Harvard University, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about his transition from practicing law at Crowell & Moring LLP to becoming a minister. (Source: Bloomberg)

May 7 (Bloomberg) — Gregory Gale, partner at Squire Sanders LLP, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about his representation of 17-year-old British programming whiz Nick D’Aloisio in the recent sale of his mobile startup Summly to Yahoo! Inc. for a reported $30 million. Gale, in this “Rainmakers” episode, also explains why the biggest U.S. [...]

May 6 (Bloomberg) — Back in the Mad Men days — 1964, to be precise — there were hardly any female lawyers at major NY firms. That’s when Christine Beshar joined prestigious white-shoe firm, Cravath, Swaine & Moore. She became the firm’s first female partner in 1971. Today, in her 80s, Beshar still works as [...]

May 3 (Bloomberg Law) — Rodge Cohen, partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, tells Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia why the recent bailout of Cyprus’s banking sector was a unique situation and not necessarily a template for dealing with future sovereign debt crises in the Eurozone.

May 3 (Bloomberg Law) — Rodge Cohen, partner at Sullivan & Cromwell who represents the nation’s largest banks, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia about the concept of Too Big To Fail and a recent proposal from Senators Sherrod Brown and David Vitter to regulate the banking industry. Cohen feels that the regulatory reforms in [...]

May 2 (Bloomberg Law) — Paul Barrett, assistant managing editor and senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek tells Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia that Big Law is currently experiencing “a very difficult crash landing that is taking place now and will persist for at least another several more years.” While acknowledging that the 2008 recession was partially [...]

May 2 (Bloomberg Law) — Just as legal process outsourcers are stealing business from law firms today by doing it cheaper, they too will face pressure in the coming years from technologies that can do the the job even cheaper than they, law firm consultant Richard Susskind tells Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pachia. And law firms [...]

May 2 (Bloomberg Law) — Eastman Kodak Co. filed a Chapter 11 plan that cratered the stock and bumped up the unsecured notes, although the plan may be revised to pay off second-lien debt fully in cash, as Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia and Bloomberg News bankruptcy columnist Bill Rochelle discuss on their video. Next, Rochelle [...]

May 1 (Bloomberg) — Keisha DePaz, founder of Punch Street, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about her transition from practicing law at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP to creating a unique line of cards for urban millennials. (Source: Bloomberg)

April 30 (Bloomberg) — Paolo Di Rosa, head of the International Arbitration practice at Arnold & Porter LLP, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about successfully defending the Republic of Colombia in U.S. federal court litigation with Sea Search Armada, a group of U.S. investors engaged in worldwide marine salvage operations, over claims to a [...]

April 29 (Bloomberg) — Last week the American Bar Association’s Task Force on the Future of Legal Education held a day long conference in Indianapolis to discuss both challenges and opportunities for change. Task Force members and invited guests agreed the panel faces enormous challenges, but there was little consensus on how to reform legal [...]

April 26 (Bloomberg Law) — William Snyder, co-head of the corporate restructuring group at Deloitte, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia about a new survey his group conducted on executive management during corporate turnarounds or bankruptcies. Deloitte asked 1200 professionals from a wide range of industries on the dynamics of addressing change in turnaround management. [...]

April 25 (Bloomberg Law) — Revenues and profits on average rose in the low single digits at the nation’s 100 highest-grossing law firms in 2012, sparking a “fundamental recovery,” Robin Sparkman, editor-in-chief of American Lawyer magazine tells Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia. The annual survey, released today, found that gross revenue rose last year by 3.4 [...]

April 25 (Bloomberg Law) — A substantial percentage of the nation’s largest law firms enter the sixth year of the Great Recession “badly weakened,” and more firms are expected to fail, according to law firm consultant Kent Zimmermann of the Zeughauser Group. Their problems boil down to “too many attorneys for too little work,” he [...]

April 24 (Bloomberg) — Mark Russ Federman, a third-generation owner of Russ & Daughters on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about his transition from practicing law to running the family business, a purveyor of smoked fish and appetizers, for over 30 years. Federman also discusses his new book, “Russ & [...]

April 24 (Bloomberg) — With $64 million at stake for creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., lawyers can find complexity even in simple words like “immediately proceeding,” as Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia and Bloomberg News bankruptcy columnist Bill Rochelle discuss on their new video. Rochelle discusses why the U.S. Supreme Court will likely grant an [...]