SJ Berwin managing partner Ralph Cohen has announced his intention to step down from his role as the firm reaches the advanced stages of merger talks with Proskauer Rose.

Following months of partner departures in New York, Nixon Peabody saw two leave Monday for Littler Mendelson, including the head of Nixon’s international labor and employment specialty team. Philip M

The battle between Alimentation Couche-Tard and its hostile target, fellow convenience store operator Casey’s General Stores, has gotten nasty. Casey’s and its lawyers at Cravath, Swaine & Moore filed a blistering lawsuit against Couche-Tard on Friday, claiming the Canadian owner of the Circle K chain executed a “pump and dump” scheme with Casey’s stock designed to make millions in profits while at the same time torpedoing Casey’s share price at the exact moment Couche-Tard made public its offer for Casey’s.

A clutch of Obama administration bigwigs gathered on Tuesday to announce the formation of a new interagency effort to fight financial fraud. According to DOJ watchers at Main Justice, the new group, which is to be called the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, will “target financial crimes that played a role in the financial crisis and try to deter future fraud.” Didn’t the Bush administration do the exact same thing with the Corporate Fraud Task Force?

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