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Insider trading in Texas ... Waiting for Bratz case payday ... No more oysters

2013-02-08 02:41:10 PM

Baker & Hostetler

Time for a refresher on keeping client confidences: The SEC brought an insider trading case against a Texas man who allegedly learned about an acquisition from his wife, a (now former) Baker partner.

Orrick

The firm is having a helluva time getting by paid by MGA for work it did in the Bratz-Barbie fight. Maybe that's why gross revenue was up just 2 percent?

Goodwin Liu

The junior justice commanded majorities in two big cases, including one, decided 4-3, that put him to the right of Marvin Baxter.

Drakes Bay Oyster Co.

We can only assume that Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who upheld the farm's eviction, wasn't swayed by the exceptionally delicious bivalves harvested there.