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What Does BofA's $410 Million Bank Overdraft Settlement Mean for Other Defendants in the Ginormous Overdraft MDL?
Publication Date: 2011-02-07
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With class certification briefing due next month, BofA may turn out to have been smart for getting out early from this sweeping MDL, which alleges that more than a dozen banks fleeced their most vulnerable depositors by charging exorbitant overdraft fees.

March 15, 2001 |

Georgia Juvenile Court Judge to Quit, Blames Pay Shuffle

Cobb County, Ga., Juvenile Court Presiding Judge James F. Morris is stepping down, and money is the reason. The 57-year-old Morris, who has been a juvenile court judge for 11 years, says he hasn't seen a dime of the $170,000 the Legislature earmarked for Cobb juvenile judges last year. That money, Morris says, went directly from the Legislature to Cobb's coffers.
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September 22, 2003 |

Foster Partners

Law firms have teamed up with Children's Rights, a private New York-based child-advocacy organization, with the aim of reforming troubled foster care, child protection and child welfare systems in states across the nation. Pro bono firms -- in addition to providing attorneys who are members of the bar in the state being sued -- are crucial to bearing the costs of discovery and trial preparation.
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January 23, 2001 |

Ex-Fulton ADA Shawn LaGrua to Head DeKalb Corruption Unit

Prosecuter Shawn E. LaGrua is set to become DeKalb County, Ga.'s assistant district attorney and head the new public corruption unit. This means LaGrua will assist in the grand jury investigation into DeKalb Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown's murder and public corruption in the sheriff's office. Also of interest: a Kilpatrick Stockton IP lawyer heads to Russia to teach copyright law; and recent firm news in Georgia.
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June 21, 2001 |

Boston Breakout

Bingham Dana's sleek conference room in its Manhattan offices just won't cut it anymore. When the Boston-based law firm welcomed members of the newly acquired 75-attorney Richards & O'Neil with a celebratory luncheon last month, "We couldn't seat everybody," said Bingham Dana's Jay Zimmerman. Such are the woes at one of the nation's fastest-growing firms, which has doubled in size to 500 lawyers in six years.
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Weil Scores for Archstone in Arbitration Stemming from $22 Billion Lehman Buyout
Publication Date: 2011-11-09
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and its lawyers at Weil Gotshal & Manges may never see the end of litigation stemming from Lehman's bankruptcy, but they've scored a victory in long-running legal battle with origins that predate the bank's collapse: Lehman's $22 billion leveraged buyout of real estate investment trust Archstone four years ago.

March 08, 2006 |

BellSouth Picks N.Y. Firm to Handle $67 Billion Deal

Atlanta law firms may have slowed the flow of mergers and acquisitions deals to New York over the past decade, but hometown corporate icon BellSouth Corp. chose a Gotham firm as its lead adviser for the phone company's largest-ever deal. Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson represents BellSouth on the company's pending $67 billion acquisition by AT&T of San Antonio, Texas. It's the fifth major M&A deal since April 1999 for which New York-based Fried Frank was hired as BellSouth's lead legal adviser.
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December 07, 2009 |

Largest Private Law Offices

Clifford Chance once had aspirations to dominate New York. But a decade after it combined with Roger & Wells to become the fifth largest employer of lawyers in New York state, it is a shadow of its former self. The drop in Clifford Chance's headcount - the largest reduction citywide at a major law firm - was just one of the findings of this year's NYLJ 100.
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August 28, 2001 |

University of Georgia Admissions Policy Deemed Unconstitutional

Calling the constitutional viability of using race to diversify a collegiate student body "an open question," the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the issue warrants consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. But the three-judge panel's declaration that the University of Georgia's admissions process is unconstitutional should be enough to allow the college to revamp the process without further judicial intervention.
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December 17, 2010 |

Ex-Winston Attorney Charged With Laundering Fraud Proceeds

A former New York partner at Winston & Strawn, Jonathan S. Bristol, pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of laundering more than $20 million through his escrow accounts in connection with an alleged multi-million dollar fraud run by Kenneth Starr, a financial advisor to celebrities.
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