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November 15, 2012 |

BP to pay $4.5 billion in oil spill settlement

BP said Thursday that it will pay $4.5 billion in a settlement with the U.S. government over the massive 2010 oil spill and will plead guilty to felony counts related to the deaths of 11 workers and lying to Congress.
6 minute read
December 01, 2009 |

No More Baby Steps

After a terrific run as a big-firm partner, Pfizer's Amy Schulman knows how the game is played and has set out to change all the rules.
14 minute read
March 28, 2013 |

Taking Care of Business: Honorable Mentions

These lawyers win recognition for their creative lawyering on challenging transactions.
33 minute read
August 11, 2006 |

Asbestos Case Nets $10.3 Mil. Verdict

A San Francisco Superior Court jury awarded $10.3 million in economic and non-economic damages Monday in an asbestos case brought by a 60-year-old man allegedly suffering from mesothelioma.
3 minute read
July 05, 2013 |

Travel Law 2013: Summer Travel Tips

Thomas A. Dickerson and Cheryl E. Chambers, associate justices of the Appellate Division, Second Department, offer a few suggestions that may help you avoid a nightmare to remember, beginning with the suggestion you determine the incidence of criminal activity,terrorism and, yes, pirates, at your selected destination and avoid all three.
14 minute read
May 12, 2006 |

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Speakers Temple University's Beasley School of Law has announced Nelson A. Diaz, class of 1972, as its commencement speaker on May 18. Currently a partner at Blank Rome, Diaz is a former city solicitor of Philadelphia and former general counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He will address more than 400 graduates at the school's 106th commencement ceremony.
5 minute read
August 31, 2006 |

Ex-Coke counsel could be pivotal witness against company in bottler suit

When W. Thomas Haynes was reorganized out of his job as general counsel for The Coca-Cola Co. subsidiary Coca-Cola North America in 2001, the company gave its blessing for him to take a position as executive director of the Coke bottlers association. Five years later, Coca-Cola's magnanimity has vanished.
14 minute read
February 16, 2000 |

God's Advocates

Some days Lex Breckinridge still thinks about the things he left behind: the legal career built through 16 years of hard work; the plush offices; the big wins, big paychecks, and big clients; a life he had, but gave away. "It wasn't that I ran away from the law, I ran to a calling," says Breckinridge. That calling was the Episcopal priesthood. Breckinridge is hardly alone. Each year a small cadre of weary or disillusioned lawyers hang up their wing tips and trade a life at the bar for a life of the cloth.
11 minute read
August 31, 2006 |

Trying to Bottle Up Coke's Former GC

When W. Thomas Haynes was reorganized out of his GC job with Coca-Cola North America in 2001, the company gave its blessing for him to become executive director of the Coca-Cola Bottlers Association. Then, in February, 55 independent bottlers sued The Coca Cola Co. and its affiliated bottler over distribution rights. Now Coke has moved to bar Haynes from testifying in the case or advising the bottlers -- and Haynes is fighting back, particularly outraged at Coke's attack on his professional ethics.
14 minute read

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