Wachtell Lipton Rosen and Katz News

A threat by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to sue Bank of America for alleged violations of the National Mortgage Settlement has brought a sharp retort from the bank's attorneys at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, who say they knew of no potential problems until Schneiderman fired off a letter to the monitoring panel and issued a statement to ... (more)

Organ donation is a valuable public health service that clearly falls within the purview of estate planners, as it is one of the end-of -life directives on which estate planning attorneys typically focus clients.

Responding to hedge funds' efforts to give incentives to nominees to company boards, the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in essence came over the top on Thursday in a memo distributed to clients.

Bank of America Corp. is pushing back against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who threatened to sue the bank over alleged violations of last year's $25 billion mortgage settlement.

Harold S. Novikoff and Emil A. Kleinhaus, partners at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, write that Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code, enacted in 2005, permits a representative designated in a foreign insolvency proceeding to avail itself of the U.S. bankruptcy courts if the foreign proceeding is 'recognized' as a 'foreign main' or 'foreign nonmain' ... (more)

A death-knell for the era of great expectations for BigLaw firms has been sounded by the bankruptcies of, among others, Howrey; Heller Ehrman; Thelen; and last year's record-breaking Chapter 11 filing by Dewey & LeBoeuf, experts say.

Partners at the New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz make $4.9 million a year on average, according to the American Lawyer Magazine's new law firm ranking .