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Heavy-Hitters Hit Pfizer with New Securities Suit, Highlighting Opt-Out Trend
Publication Date: 2012-11-15
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Two months after opting out of a class action against Pfizer, a group of major public and private institutional investors are taking matters into their own hands. On Thursday the breakaway investors and their lawyers at Bernstein Litowitz filed their own securities fraud suit, accusing Pfizer of duping shareholders about risks associated with two once-blockbuster drugs.

Boies on Board: New to the Never-Ending America's Cup Case, David Boies Scores Win for Larry Ellison on Race Locale
Publication Date: 2009-10-27
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Never has such high-caliber, high-priced legal talent toiled with so much creativity and effort on a case of so little societal benefit. In the latest round of the Battle of the Billionaire Sailors, Boies persuaded a Manhattan judge to bar the race from taking place in the United Arab Emirates in February.

Eleventh Circuit Rejects FTC Challenge, Affirms State-Action Immunity for Georgia Hospital Deal
Publication Date: 2011-12-12
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Since April, the Federal Trade Commission has been fighting to block Phoebe Putney Health Systems from acquiring a rival hospital in southwest Georgia, on the grounds that the merger would create a monopoly on hospital care in the region. On Friday the Eleventh Circuit agreed that the deal was anticompetitive, but the panel also agreed with PPHS's lawyers at Baker & McKenzie and Weil Gotshal that the courts can't do anything to stop it.

April 27, 2010 |

Like 'Getting a Date With the Cute Girl in Class': Aglow With IPOs

This year, Silicon Valley's corporate lawyers are at long last the popular kids again as tech companies are going public en masse for first time in years. But a survey of legal fees shows that even with the upswing, generally lawyers aren't getting paid more for the work. It's still a buyers market.
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SEC Investigating Allegations that Khuzami Caved to Pressure from Citigroup, Spared Individual Defendants in Bank's Controversial $75 Million Settlement
Publication Date: 2011-01-11
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An anonymous tipster with apparent inside knowledge of the agency's negotiations with Citi raised the allegations in an unsigned fax to Sen. Charles Grassley. True or not, the fax makes for compelling reading--and we've got a link to it.

March 29, 1999 |

Democracy Takes a Hit at Anderson Kill

How does a law firm that treats all its lawyers as partners and is ruled by a one-person, one-vote philosophy fire 15 percent of its members? Egalitarianism goes by the wayside. The firm changes its partnership agreement to concentrate power in the hands of a three-person executive committee before the axe falls. Such was the case at New York's Anderson Kill & Olick, which on March 12 fired 22 of 130 partners.
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Litigator of the Week: Robert Giuffra Jr. of Sullivan & Cromwell
Publication Date: 2012-10-04
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As chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Banking Committee in the mid-1990s, Giuffra helped draft the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and hobble stock-drop suits. Since the financial crisis the PSLRA has gotten a vigorous workout; last Friday it gave Giuffra the ammunition he needed to knock out what remained of a class action against UBS over more than $100 billion in losses.

Litigator of the Week: Owen Pell of White & Case
Publication Date: 2012-09-20
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A jury might really sink its teeth into Norex Petroleum's claims against a collection of Russian billionaires and oil companies. But unfortunately for Norex, over the span of 10 years Pell has led the way in convincing three different courts in Manhattan to dismiss the case without ever reaching the merits.

April 01, 2010 |

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Mary Jo White's Husband to Step Down From Cravath Equity Partnership Upon Confirmation
Publication Date: 2013-02-11
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The SEC nominee and her husband have amassed assets of at least $16 million, according to a financial disclosure form filed by the Debevoise & Plimpton partner. White also revealed that her husband, John White, plans to convert from equity to nonequity status at Cravath, Swaine & Moore upon her confirmation.

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