Brace yourself for a likely new era of media megamergers.

From first-timers to veteran partners, attorneys agree that a good cultural fit is the biggest contributor to the success of firm mergers.

Last year’s merger of Squire Sanders and Patton Boggs, resulting in mega-firm Squire Patton Boggs LLP, raised some interesting points for us ethics nerds (yes, we have a secret handshake).

As is often the case with publicly announced mergers, the recent blending of Journal Communications Inc. and E.W. Scripps Co. resulted in the immediate filing of lawsuits for breach of fiduciary duties.

Volatility in the world of shareholder class actions has stoked a debate over whether the lawyers who bring such cases are laudable public watchdogs or stick-up artists.

One day in August 2010, Hutchinson attorney Neil Jensen called a former law school classmate and intramural sports teammate, Keith Sjodin, with a proposition.

Less than a month ago, attorneys at two Madison-based, mid-sized law firms were competitors.

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A southeastern Wisconsin Girl Scouts council carries the same rights as a franchise and can therefore resist the national organization’s plans to merge and reduce the number of individual councils across the country, an appeals court has ruled. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the Girl Scouts of Manitou Council, which has ...