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It's not clear how the Supreme Court's landmark Concepcion arbitration ruling might apply to shareholder litigation. The Carlyle Group and its lawyers at Simpson Thacher are ready to test whether a public company can ban shareholder class actions.
Heller Leaders Saw Failure Looming, Documents Show
Heller Ehrman's leaders discussed the firm's "mortality" while assuring partners it was sound, and recruited more than five merger candidates by early 2008, according to confidential creditors' exhibits. The documents provide details never before available that give clues to the inner workings of a failing law firm and expose embarrassing ironies. The exhibits include notes from policy and executive committee meetings, e-mails about finances, loan documents and balance sheets.For years, culminating with his Ninth Circuit win against UMG Recordings this week, Elkin has relied on a safe harbor provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to fend off copyright infringement claims against his client Veoh Networks. Elkin's pioneering work has paid off for Veoh, and so far it's paying off for Google and YouTube as they defend against Viacom's $1 billion copyright suit.
You don't often hear complaints about working for Apple, Google, Intel, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intuit, or Pixar. But according to plaintiffs lawyers at Lieff Cabraser, Berger & Montague, and Grant & Eisenhofer, employees at the companies were the victims of a conspiracy to suppress their salaries and keep them tied down at their jobs. And on Wednesday, a judge in San Jose ruled that the lawyers had come up with enough evidence to allow their case to move forward.
DLA and Piper (and Gray) Make it Official
London's DLA and the partners of Piper Rudnick voted to merge the firms Saturday, creating what on Jan. 1 will be the world's third-largest law firm measured by lawyers and fifth-largest measured by revenues. The combined firm, which touts as its strengths litigation, corporate finance, real estate and global government affairs, boasts 2,700 attorneys in the United States, Europe and Asia.Defendants in AIG Scam Lawyer Up for Appeal
An ex-AIG employee and four former top execs at General Re convicted last year of engaging in a scam to inflate AIG's loss reserves have filed papers asking the 2nd Circuit to overturn their convictions. To increase their chances, three of them have shaken up their legal teams by adding Am Law 200 lawyers with sterling appellate resumes. The defendants are asking the circuit to toss out the convictions on several grounds, including claims that the trial judge admitted hearsay evidence and gave improper jury instructions.Kirkland & Ellis partner William Pratt led the team that represented Discover in its landmark $2.75 billion settlement with Visa and MasterCard. We talked with him about the challenges to the litigation.
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