Tangled Up in Cross-Jurisdictional Restrictive Covenants
March 24, 2014

As the workforce gets more mobile and more global, there may be a corresponding rise in headaches for multinational companies that seek to apply and enforce restrictive covenants in their employment contracts. A new e-book from Mayer Brown indicates that there is plenty of variability in how noncompetes, nonsolicitations and other types of restrictive covenants can be used from state to state and country to country. Mayer Brown’s free e-book “A Global Guide to Restrictive Covenants” [PDF] surveys...

Global Disputes of the Year
September 17, 2013

The American Lawyer Global Disputes of the Year honor the winning team in transnational cases no matter where they play out. Among this year’s winners are the holders of record awards in both commercial and investment arbitration (The Dow Chemical Company and Occidental Petroleum Corporation). Roman Abramovich and Porsche Automobil Holding SE beat back multibillion-dollar transnational claims in more traditional (national) forums. Mayer Brown improbably pioneered the law in Geneva on technical...

All is well for BigLaw?
August 9, 2013

I spent the last 10 days on vacation. I returned to these stories: • "Don't bury Big Law just yet" (The American Lawyer) •...

A Farewell to Cushy BigLaw: Mayer Brown a Case Study in Coping and Hard-Charged Competition
August 5, 2013

Most BigLaw firms will eventually collapse or reinvent themselves, leaving only 20 to 25 law firms catering to clients who are willing...

The Last Days of Big Law – and the Snakepit at Mayer Brown
August 3, 2013

The New Republic just  published a gripping story entitled, "The Last Days of Big Law: You can't imagine the terror when...