Videos

May 22 (Bloomberg) — Rachana “Ruchi” Bhowmik, former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Cabinet Secretary at The White House, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about her transition from practicing law to working for the President of the United States. (Source: Bloomberg)

May 21 (Bloomberg) — Joan Lukey, partner at Ropes & Gray LLP, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about her successful representation of best-selling crime writer Patricia Cornwell in a highly-publicized lawsuit accusing the author’s accounting and business management firm Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP of mismanaging her finances. (Source: Bloomberg)

May 17 (Bloomberg Law) — Robert Walker, attorney at Wiley Rein LLP, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia about the legal and ethical implications of law firms selling political intelligence. Last month, the SEC issued subpoenas to Greenberg Traurig as part of their investigation into the law firm’s political intelligence practice. Although the firm has [...]

May 16 (Bloomberg Law) — Trevor Faure, Global Leader of Legal Services for Ernst & Young, tells Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia that the needs of general counsels at large corporations have changed in recent years and that most law firms need to change the way they approach business development. Faure says that while building personal [...]

May 15 (Bloomberg Law) — Trustees of all types are sleeping easier, knowing that their liabilities for theft by a co-trustee is a debt that can be wiped out in bankruptcy as a result of a unanimous Supreme Court decision discussed by Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia and Bloomberg News bankruptcy columnist Bill Rochelle on their [...]

May 20 (Bloomberg) — While the Supreme Court has three female justices, a Hispanic and an African-American, the lawyers appearing before it are almost all white males. According to the Associated Press, during the roughly 75 hours of oral arguments this term, an African-American lawyer spoke one time, for just 11 minutes. Four Hispanic lawyers [...]

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 [...]