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October 24, 2005 |

In re Congoleum Corp. et al.

In this prepackaged Chapter 11 reorganization, evidence of prepetition conduct by a law firm is relevant to a review of a debtor's application to retain the firm as special insurance counsel; the bankruptcy judge should not have granted the application where the firm had acted as counsel for the debtor in negotiating a pre-petition settlement with asbestos injury claimants represented by attorneys with whom the firm had been co-counsel in insurance matters for those same claimants.
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May 11, 2007 |

The Culture Gap

So many countries, so many rules for attorneys to follow. The way attorneys exchange business cards or conduct meetings can differ from country to country. Globalization of the legal world has led more lawyers to travel overseas, so grasping another country's customs can make or break a lawyer's deal. And though a number of large law firms are adding cross-cultural training of some sort, others say there are more important ways to serve clients, and they simply try to practice cultural sensitivity.
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August 28, 2006 |

Prominent Corporate Lawyers Didn't Stop Shady Options Deals

A review by The Recorder of SEC filings for 17 companies that had prominent Silicon Valley lawyers serving as directors has uncovered questionable option grant dates for executives at five. While the grant patterns aren't necessarily evidence of wrongdoing, they do suggest that suspect pay practices at startups may be more commonplace than previously thought. They also raise new questions about what some name-brand lawyers knew, or should have known, in their roles as directors.
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Boies Schiller Price Discrimination Claims Tossed in 19-Year-Old Pharma Case
Publication Date: 2012-08-17
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After nearly two decades of litigation against some of the biggest drug companies in the country, we're betting the last thing a group of individual pharmacies wanted to hear was that their claims were small potatoes.

May 01, 2009 |

Big Suits

USA/UBS; Citibank Shareholder Derivative Litigation; Congoleum Chapter 11 Bankruptcy; FTC vs. Whole Foods; Parmalat Securities Litigation; SEC v. Automated Trading Desk Specialist, et al.
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January 18, 2005 |

Bullish 2005 Outlook For Leasing Activity

2004 certainly started off with a bang when, on the day following last year's Real Estate Board of New York Annual Banquet, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP signed the "deal of the year."
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November 19, 2007 |

National Rankings

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LTN Innovation Awards
Publication Date: 2011-02-15
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The LTN Innovation Awards recognize the efforts of individuals, firms, and law departments that are pushing boundaries of legal technology. Recently, Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of LTN magazine, spoke with each of the awardees, as well as judge David Whelan.

Court Puts New York Litigation on Hold in NYSE M&A Battle
Publication Date: 2013-03-19
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It will be up to Delaware Chancellor Leo Strine Jr., not New York Supreme Court Justice Shirley Kornreich, to preside over the crucial next two months of arguments in shareholder litigation over NYSE Euronext's $8.2 billion sale to IntercontinentalExchange.

Go Nukes: Federal Circuit Rules for Utilities in Multibillion Dollar Battle with Government Over Radioactive Waste
Publication Date: 2010-01-12
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The opinion breaks a jurisdictional jam and could lead to as much as $50 billion in damages against the U.S.

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