Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Greg Larkin Was the Al Gore of the Supbrime Mess

  Published: September 17, 2007, 1:11 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Alan Greenspan, Chloe, Dick Cheney, Greg Larkin, H Amp M, Marc Jacobs, Rupert Murdoch, Simpson Thacher, Sullivan Amp Cromwell

  FINANCE • Alan Greenspan was giddy when old buds Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney took over the White House. But it turned out they were bad boys and not his friends at all. Check out this and more in Greenspan’s new bio. [

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• Murdoch Mulls the Liberation of WSJ.com

  Published: September 19, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Alan Greenspan, Cnbc, Fox Business Network, Heatherette, Jon Stewart, Milberg Weiss, Nordstrom, Portfolio, Roberto Cavalli, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, Sullivan Amp Cromwell, Ubs, Wall Street

  LAW • Sullivan & Cromwell is trying to shore up its old homo-friendly image, recently tarnished with the Aaron Charney sexual-harassment case, by handing out free sets of Kiehl's products at gay-lawyer job fairs. [Above the Law] • Bill Lerach's guilty plea in the long-running Milberg Weiss investigation gives

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• Goldman Defies Credit Crunch

  Published: September 21, 2007, 12:58 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Forbes, Goldman Sachs, Harpercollins, Joanne Lipman, Melvyn Weiss, Portfolio, Rupert Murdoch, Sullivan Amp Cromwell, Ted Turner, Thakoon Panichgul, Yves Saint Laurent

  [NYT] • One reason Sullivan & Cromwell is restricting their new bonus-pool to senior associates: "If you raise salaries across the board, junior associates will leave faster because they will have paid off their loans sooner." [Law Blog/WSJ] • Forget associates, how are those New York legal bonuses looking for partners this year?

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• All Is Not Well in Redstone Land

  Published: October 1, 2007, 12:45 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Ang Lee, Ann Moore, Carmen Kass, Chuck Prince, Clarence Thomas, Jessica Stam, Sullivan Amp Cromwell, Sumner Redstone, Wall Street

  Krautheimer, the partner at Sullivan & Cromwell who told Aaron Charney to "bend over" and pick up a document, picked up his own mad law skills and personal politesse at Western New England College School of Law. [Above the Law] • Clarence Thomas's autobiography comes out today. The justice breaks out his legendary charm and calls Anita

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• Topshop Signs a Lease in NYC?

  Published: October 2, 2007, 1:20 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Aaron Charney, Alan Greenspan, Chuck Prince, Citigroup, Clarence Thomas, Dow Jones, Giorgio Armani, Harry Potter, Hedi Slimane, Huffington Post, Karl Lagerfeld, Kate Moss, New York Sun, Sullivan Amp Cromwell, Top Shop, Willie Mays

  sorry. [NYP] LAW • Sullivan & Cromwell won a partial victory against Aaron Charney, the gay former associate who sued the firm for sexual harassment. But most of Charney's complaint still stands, and the win could mean little for S&C. [Above the Law] • Anita Hill struck back after Clarence Thomas called her a "mediocre" employee

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• Fox Business Network: Still Painting the Offices

  Published: October 12, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Daphne Guinness, David Stockman, Fox Business Network, Jann Wenner, Maxim, Men S Journal, Nbc, Skadden Arps, Stephen Jones, Sullivan Amp Cromwell, Tamara Mellon

  Are other NYC firms matching Sullivan and Cromwell's associate bonuses? [Above the Law] FASHION • Crime against fashion! The policeman who spied on Jimmy Choo’s Tamara Mellon during her divorce has been thrown in the slammer for 27 months. [British Vogue] • Daphne Guinness is taking that great step from being a muse and

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• Falling Glass a Metaphor for Bank of America's Finances?

  Published: October 19, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Balenciaga, Bank Of America, James Cayne, Kpmg, Kurt Eichenwald, Lily Allen, Lily Cole, Mark Healy, Milberg Weiss, Olivier Theyskens, Penthouse, Seymour Lazar, Stephen Colbert, Sullivan Amp Cromwell, Warren Buffet

  would his show then violate campaign-finance laws? [Radar] LAW • There's no single way to rank top law firms, but one thing is certain: Sullivan & Cromwell leads them all. [NYT] • Seymour Lazar became the latest lawyer to plead guilty in the Milberg Weiss case. When asked if he understood his plea, the 80-year-old Lazar responded

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• Tony Blair Sells Out Rupert Murdoch

  Published: October 26, 2007, 1:37 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Aaron Charney, Annie Leibowitz, Baker Amp Mckenzie, Dow Jones, Gisele, Macy S, Marc Jacobs, Rupert Murdoch, Sullivan Amp Cromwell, Tommy Hilfiger, Tony Blair, Wall Street, Warren Buffett

  of successive scandals, Sullivan & Cromwell finally settled with Aaron Charney on the gay former associate's charges of sexual harassment. Terms remain undisclosed, and we'll have to wait and see whether Charney can return to a life of regular lawyering. [New York Law Journal] • Associate salaries to $175,000? Despite the credit

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• The Bancroft Family High Jinks: Ongoing!

  Published: November 7, 2007, 12:05 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Aaron Charney, Bancroft Family, Bear Stearns, Clarence Thomas, Dow Jones, Goldman Sachs, Gucci, James Cayne, John Mack, Lmvh, Morgan Stanley, New York Times, Nora Ephron, Puma, Rupert Murdoch, Sullivan Amp Cromwell, Sunday Styles, Wall Street, Wall Street Jour

  case against Sullivan & Cromwell. David Lat says $2 million. [NYO] • Which associates are typically least happy at their firms? Minority women, and less than a third plan to stay. [Minority Law Journal] • Justice Thomas may have published a memoir and given an interview to 60 Minutes, but he still hasn't said a

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• Did ‘The New Yorker’ Rip One of Its Cartoons Off ‘The Far Side’?

  Published: November 29, 2007, 11:35 am

  Tags: Company Town, Aaron Charney, Annette De La Renta, Bear Stearns, Cory Kennedy, Donald Graham, Eric Krautheimer, Fox, New Yorker, Oscar De La Renta, Steve Schwarzman, Sullivan Amp Cromwell, Thacher Proffitt, Ubs, Vivienne Westwood, Washington Post

  Eric Krautheimer, the Sullivan & Cromwell partner who told Aaron Charney to bend over and pick up a piece of paper, is headed out west. And he just passed the California bar exam. Congrats, asshole! [Above the Law] • A new survey shows women in the law advance at about the same rate as men but still somehow end up earning less.

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• The Upper East Side Completes Renée Zellweger

  Published: August 13, 2008, 2:35 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Bank Of America, Citigroup, Covington, Hsbc, Jpmorgan, Michael Phelps, Nbc, New York Times, Peter Kurer, Renee Zellweger, Siegel Frenchel Amp Peddy, Skadden, Sullivan Amp Cromwell, Summer Olympics, Tishman Speyer, Ubs, William Ackman

  Skadden, Covington, and Sullivan & Cromwell are all considered good for women in terms of family-friendly benefits and policies, flexibility, leadership, compensation, advancement, and retention. [Law.com] • Meanwhile, a former Siegel Frenchel & Peddy associate sues the New York firm for discriminating against her for getting

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