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July 23, 2007 |

Shhh! Pro Bono�s Not Just for Liberals Anymore

Lawyers should not be discouraged from proposing conservative pro bono to their firms.
10 minute read
December 18, 2001 |

Wilmington's Top Gun

Laura Davis Jones knows her way around the Delaware court system. Besides growing up in Wilmington, Del., and clerking for Judge Helen Balick in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Davis worked on the Continental Airlines bankruptcy that put the venue on the insolvency map. She's also helped build one of the premier debtor's practices in Wilmington -- as a name partner with Los Angeles-based Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones.
11 minute read
March 21, 2005 |

Mopping Up

The mood was somber the morning of Dec. 9, as Ronald Greenspan worked his way through a two-hour PowerPoint presentation chronicling the history of Brobeck's demise for a tense audience of 100 lawyers. He also laid out the legal theories for the partners' liability and explained his formula for determining how much each owed the estate. But within three months, 208 of the former Brobeck partners had inked individual settlements with Greenspan. Together they agreed to pay about $24 million to the estate.
10 minute read
January 16, 2007 |

Paul Clement Stays Cool in High Court Hot Seat

At age 40, Paul Clement is one of the youngest solicitors general of the United States in history. As the Bush administration's top advocate at the Supreme Court, he manages much of the government's courtroom war on terror. His has been a stunningly quick rise -- and so far, unimpeded by the political grenades lobbed his way. At the end of Bush's term, Clement may be looking toward a career as a top tier member of the private Supreme Court bar, perhaps a judgeship, even a spot on the high court itself.
18 minute read
September 18, 2006 |

Gross v. German Foundation Industrial Initiative et al

Claims by victims of Nazi-era wrongs, that German companies owe "interest" on their payments to a reparations fund created with the substantial involvement of the United States and German governments, are not subject to the political-question doctrine and, therefore, are justiciable.
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Hughes Hubbard Partner's Appointment as Joint U.S.-U.K. Corporate Monitor Signals New Era in Bribery Enforcement
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Kevin Abikoff has been hired by Innospec to act as compliance monitor as part of a $40 million bribery settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.K. Serious Fraud Office.

February 03, 2005 |

Unlikely Legal Duo Fights for Freer-Flowing Wine Market

They call themselves "the last-minute babes of Stanford Law." Last term, there was Jenny Martinez, arguing the landmark enemy combatant case Rumsfeld v. Padilla, with less than a week's notice. And in one of this term's biggest cases, former Stanford Dean Kathleen Sullivan argued in December for the interstate shipment of wines to consumers, beating out former Solicitor General Kenneth Starr for the case.
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