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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan breached one more line of defense this week in the Federal Housing Finance Agency's campaign against the banks at the heart of the subprime crisis.
In re: Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation
Rehearing of IPO Class Action Issue Denied; No Reason to Revise Standard for Class CertificationMassachusetts Mutual and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel crossed a major hurdle on Tuesday in a crush of litigation against banks that underwrote residential mortgage backed-securities. A federal judge in Boston largely denied motions to dismiss nine separate suits that Quinn Emanuel filed against Credit Suisse, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, WaMu Inc., and Goldman Sachs.
Midlevel Associates Survey: Firms Improve, but Complaints Continue
With the results of The American Lawyer's 2006 midlevel associates survey comes the realization that not necessarily every associate aims for partnership. But one thing that has stayed the same is the level of frustration. And though the lack of communication between associates and partners continues to be a major gripe, at least one firm has taken heed of last year's poor survey score to make improvements. Plus: Take a look at how smaller and midsize boutiques rank against Am Law 100 and 200 firms.They say you can't beat the house. In litigation sparked by the collapse of the giant Fontainebleau casino project on the Las Vegas strip, neither the project's borrowers or a group of term lenders have been able to beat the banks.
Describing the third-party litigation financing business as "lumpy, unpredictable and high-risk," Burford Capital nonetheless announced significant increases in its financial results on Thursday.
We're beginning to reap the consequences of the sweeping Lehman examiner's report. Plaintiffs in a long-pending securities class action have now filed an amended complaint that adds allegations about Lehman's now-infamous Repo 105 balance sheet asset transfers--and adds Lehman's auditor, Ernst & Young, as a defendant.
The cable company's secured lenders, led by JPMorgan Chase, wanted to force a refinancing of $11 billion Charter borrowed on rock-bottom terms in 2007. But after a highly complex bench trial, the bankruptcy judge found Charter was not in default of its loan agreement.
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