| Date | | Headlines | | | 22 January 2007 |  | Chief Legal Counsel to Illinois House Speaker Joins Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
News Release - Worldwide
22 January 2007 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP has announced that Rob Uhe, chief legal counsel to Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, has joined the firm as a partner in the Government and Global Trade Practice Group. |
| | | 11 January 2007 |  | Andy Pincus comments on the impact of Supreme Court decisions on the business community
Article - Supreme Court & Appellate, Worldwide
11 January, 2007 -- Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP attorney Andy Pincus is quoted several times in a recent article in the Financial Times on how Supreme Court cases affect the business community. In particular, Andy argues that a preference for narrow opinions can be costly to businesses, and that the Court should be more willing to grant business cases even in the absence of a circuit split. |
| | | 8 January 2007 | | Evan Tager argues important dormant commerce clause case in the Supreme Court
Media Coverage - Worldwide
8 January 2007 -- Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP attorney Evan Tager today argued United
Haulers Association v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority, No. 05-1345, in the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court will decide whether a requirement that all garbage generated in a county be disposed of in a county-owned disposal facility discriminates against interstate commerce in violation of the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. |
| | | 2 January 2007 | | The Pardon in History's Hindsight
Article - Worldwide
29 December 2006 - Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate -- the lies, distortions, coverups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries. . . . |
| | | 3 November 2006 | | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Partner Marc Kadish Quoted in Newsweek's E-Guide
Media Coverage - Pro Bono, Worldwide
3 November 2006 - Marc Kadish, Director of Pro Bono Activities and Litigation training at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, was recently quoted in Newsweek's special feature "The E-Guide to Public Service in America's Law Schools." The E-Guide is an interactive online directory of public interest programs and curricula at law schools within the United States. |
| | | 29 October 2006 | | Vikram Akula, this year's keynote speaker at Mayer Brown's Pro Bono Awards Luncheon and a veteran of our pro bono work in the area of microfinance, was featured in an interview in the Chicago Tribune October 29, 2006.
Article - Worldwide
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| | | 19 October 2006 | | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP Advises CBOT Holdings, Inc. in Its Proposed Merger with Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.
Media Coverage - Corporate & Securities, Worldwide
19 October 2006 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP advised CBOT Holdings, Inc., parent company of the Chicago Board of Trade, in connection with its proposed merger with CME Holdings, Inc. |
| | | 4 August 2006 | | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw advises Corona Energy Holdings on its sale
News Release - Worldwide
4 August 2006 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP has advised the shareholders of Corona Energy Holdings Limited ("Corona") on their agreement to sell the entire issued share capital of Corona to Macquarie Bank. The agreement is subject to EU approval. |
| | | 2 August 2006 | | In the Matter of Rambus, Inc.Docket No. 9302 Opinion of the Federal Trade Commission released August 2, 2006
News Release - Antitrust & Competition, Worldwide
2 August 2006, Washington, D.C. - In a 120-page ruling today, the Federal Trade Commission condemned the conduct of computer memory technology company Rambus Incorporated. Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour, writing for a unanimous Commission, held that Rambus' conduct constituted unlawful monopolization. Significantly, however, the Commission declined to impose a remedy. Instead, the Commission invited further briefing and argument on how to determine reasonable royalty rates and whether injunctive relief would be appropriate |
| | | 18 July 2006 | | Mayer Brown lawyers Andy Pincus & Charles Rothfeld to direct Supreme Court litigation clinic at Yale Law School.
Media Coverage - Worldwide
18 July 2006, Washington, D.C. -- Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP lawyers Andy Pincus and Charles Rothfeld will be directing a Supreme Court litigation seminar and clinic at Yale Law School, while continuing to practice at Mayer Brown. The clinic will represent parties and amici in the Supreme Court on a pro bono basis. The clinic's website is available here. The Legal Times has also written about the clinic. |
| | | 11 July 2006 | | Court of Appeals affirms $7.3 million patent infringement verdict for International Game Technology
Media Coverage - Intellectual Property, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Supreme Court & Appellate, Worldwide
11 July 2006 - The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has summarily affirmed a $7.3 million jury verdict in favor of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP's client, International Game Technology ("IGT"), on claims of patent infringement. |
| | | 26 June 2006 | | Andrew Frey named One of "Top 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America"
News Release - Worldwide
June 26, 2006, New York -- The National Law Journal has named Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP partner Andrew Frey to its list of the "Top 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America." |
| | | 23 June 2006 |  | Environmental Update - Fractured U.S. Supreme Court Reins In Army Corps of Engineers' Wetlands Program
Article - Environmental, Worldwide
22 June 2006 - The United States Supreme Court issued its decision June 19 in two closely-watched Clean Water Act cases, Rapanos v. United States (No. 04-1034) and Carabell v. United States Army Corps of Engineers (No. 04-1384). The decision placed some limits on the Army Corps of Engineers' authority to regulate "non-isolated" wetlands under the Clean Water Act (the "Act"). |
| | | 11 June 2006 | | With CIA-Nazi files, bright sunlight is the best disinfectant
Media Coverage - Worldwide
Among the 27,000 pages of newly declassified files released by the CIA last week were documents that revealed a shocking fact: In 1958, West German intelligence revealed to the CIA the alias under which Adolf Eichmann was hiding in Argentina. Yet the CIA did nothing to help bring this notorious Nazi, responsible for implementing Hitler's policy of murdering all of Europe's Jews, to justice. |
| | | 17 May 2006 | | 'Authorized' Generic Drugs: What Impact on Health Care Competition and Innovation?
Media Coverage - Antitrust & Competition, Life Sciences, Worldwide
The Washington Legal Foundation's event titled "'Authorized' Generic Drugs: What Impact on Health Care Competition and Innovation?" featured Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw partner Christopher Kelly, as well as Michael Wroblewski, Assistant General Counsel of Policy Studies at the Federal Trade Commission. Recently, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it would be studying the competitive impact of prescription drug manufacturers' sales of "authorized" generic drugs, which compete directly with generic drug producers' products. This panel discusses the Commission's examination, the legal issues surrounding it, and the broader impact of authorized generics.
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| | | 12 May 2006 | | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw shows marked gains in 2006 Diversity Scorecard
Article - Worldwide
12 May 2006, Chicago -- Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw is highlighted as among five law firms showing marked gains in the proportion of minority lawyers in the Minority Law Journal's 2006 Diversity Scorecard. The report highlighted the firm's efforts in creating a committee on diversity, adding diversity to the factors determining partners' compensation, and establishing a mentor program. |
| | | 9 May 2006 | | 'Family' matters: Iranian Lawyer Gives Thanks
Article - Worldwide
"We lawyers - no matter where we are - are part of one family,'' said Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer who overcame a trade embargo to publish her memoirs in America through the help of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. |
| | | 31 March 2006 | | Moving Outside the Beltway
Article - Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Supreme Court & Appellate, Worldwide
31 March 2006, New York - Fresh Hope is at hand for New York litigators and trial attorneys uncomfortable in the role of hard-charger-and who long for the days of high-minded, Socratic explorations deep into the belly of the legal beast. |
| | | 29 March 2006 | | Illinois Appellate Court Rejects "Compatibility" Requirement For SUVs.
Media Coverage - Worldwide
The First District of the Illinois Appellate Court, sitting in Chicago, has rejected the claim that the makers of sport utility vehicles, or SUVs, can be held liable for injuries to occupants of vehicles that collide with SUVs where those injuries are alleged to have been caused by the SUV's greater size and
weight. |
| | | 22 March 2006 | | Deported Illegal Alien Wants to Remain in U.S. for Hearing
Article - Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Pro Bono, Supreme Court & Appellate, Worldwide
22 March 2006, WASHINGTON - An immigration attorney told an apparently divided Supreme Court on Wednesday that a 1996 law denying hearings to deported aliens who returned to the United Sates unlawfully does not apply to deportees who illegally reentered before April 1, 1997, the statute's effective date. |
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