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December 31, 2012 |

Recession-rattled investors lose faith in stocks

Defying decades of investment history, ordinary Americans are selling stocks for a fifth year in a row.
10 minute read
July 24, 2003 |

Obscure Alien Tort Claims Act Resurfaces With Alarm

If you're a business and you haven't yet been sued under this law, don't worry, you will be.
10 minute read
September 17, 2004 |

Majoras: We'll Stay Course

Deborah Majoras today will be publicly sworn in as the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a job she technically took over last month when Timothy J. Muris resigned. In her first interview on competition policy since returning to government, Majoras discusses her views on oil industry consolidation, merger remedies and international antitrust enforcement.
6 minute read
April 19, 2010 |

The Efficiency equation

30 minute read
July 18, 2012 |

Unjust Enrichment, Additional Insureds, Issues in Criminal Practice

In their New York Court of Appeals Roundup, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partners Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry discuss a recent holding that a real estate firm's relationship with a competitor in the transaction at issue was not sufficient to support an unjust enrichment claim, another decision that stated that if misrepresentations by the primary insured rendered the liability policy void such that the primary insured was not entitled to coverage, the additional insureds similarly would not be entitled to coverage, and more.
11 minute read
October 02, 2009 |

M&A Bounce Buoys Big Firms

Big firm corporate lawyers are busy again after a rebound in deals activity that started in the summer and has recently become stronger. Corporate lawyers said the uptick has beefed up their workload, created a pipeline of work for about six months to a year, and boosted a sense of cautious optimism among clients and lawyers. "There's been a significant uptick in both [M&A and securities work] and it's to the point where we are feeling understaffed," says Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker's Robert Claassen.
3 minute read
September 30, 2009 |

James Joyce Estate Agrees to Pay Plaintiff's Fees in Fair Use Dispute

The estate of author James Joyce has agreed to pay $240,000 in legal costs incurred by a Stanford University scholar following a fair use legal battle over a book about Joyce's daughter. The settlement ends more than a decade of wrangling and brings to a close one of the more prominent academic fair use cases in recent years, which garnered interest partly due to the Joyce estate's aggressive approach to protecting copyrighted material.
4 minute read
February 15, 2012 |

The Stop Online Piracy Act and the High Seas of the Internet Age

A few weeks ago, Congress quickly shelved the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) after incurring vocal public outrage.
7 minute read
February 10, 2006 |

Judge Questions Viability of NYC's Gun Litigation

Two months after allowing New York City's lawsuit against the gun industry to proceed, a federal judge suggested Wednesday the suit might be doomed by language in the appropriations bill recently passed by Congress. In an order, Judge Jack B. Weinstein asked the city to explain why its suit should not be dismissed in light of the new legislation, which bars the use of a federal database that tracks firearms as evidence in civil litigation. The city had intended to use the database to help prove its case.
4 minute read
March 01, 2008 |

Mississippi Blues

Ten years after the tobacco settlement, Richard Scruggs has a string of spectacular failures to his name--and an indictment.
16 minute read

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