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August 02, 2011 |

And the unfortunate comment award goes to...

Northwestern Law School has a new dean with a tough job, but his predecessor isn't making things any easier for him with comments he was quoted as saying in a recent New York Times article about how law school.
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August 29, 2005 |

Delays Could Cost Mirant $1.15M

Judge D. Michael Lynn in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas in Fort Worth has granted Mirant Corp. an extension on its exit financing until Oct. 2, according to Eric Taube, co-counsel for the official equity committee at Hohmann, Taube & Summer. But the delay will come at a price. Mirant could pay an extra $1.15 million in fees to cover the fifth postponement of a hearing for the $2.35 billion exit loan.
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June 26, 2011 |

Top Patent Litigator Leaving Weil to Launch Plaintiffs-Side Firm

Matthew Powers, cochair of litigation at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, is leaving the firm after 18 years to start his own plaintiffs shop. News of the split, which Powers and Weil described as friendly, came the same day as the announcement that two other patent litigators, including a patent litigation group cochair, had left Weil for Paul Weiss.
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Corsello v. Verizon New York, Inc., 39610/07
Publication Date: 2010-09-21
Practice Area: Real Property
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Court: Appellate Division, Second Department
Judge: Before: Mastro, J.P., Leventhal, Belen, Lott, JJ.
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For plaintiff: Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, N.Y. (Joseph Serino, Jr., William Pratt, and Susan E. Engel, and Patrick F. Philbin, Washington, D.C., pro hac vice, of counsel), for appellants-respondents.
For defendant: Law Offices of David M. Wise, P.A., Babylon, N.Y. and Reilly Like & Tenety, Babylon, N.Y. (Irving Like of counsel), for respondents-appellants (one brief filed). *1
Case number: 39610/07

Cite as: Corsello v. Verizon New York, Inc., 39610/07, NYLJ 1202472251742, at *1 (App. Div., 2nd, Decided September 14, 2010)Before: Mastro, J.P., Leventhal, Be

August 31, 2009 |

Civil Actions

The following cases were recently filed in the Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the district courts' official online bulletins.
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June 06, 2011 |

NY Partners Switching Firms

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September 15, 2005 |

Corporate Securities

John C. Coffee, Jr., Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School, writes that the WorldCom decision makes clear that Rule 176 provides no real protection from Section 11 liability, and the SEC's "securities offerings reforms" did nothing to change that. He suggests extending a qualified immunity to independent directors if they adopt procedures that promise far more careful investigations than in the past.
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EMC Asks Federal Circuit to Ease Transfer of Infringement Claims
Publication Date: 2012-10-29
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After getting sued for patent infringement by a non-practicing entity called Oasis Research, EMC could have settled, like most of its co-defendants. Instead, the company filed an appeal with the Federal Circuit and won a ruling that limits the ability of patentholders to name multiple defendants in the same complaint. Now EMC is heading back to the Federal Circuit, seeking a ruling that could ease the way for more cases to be transferred out of the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas.

Tech Defendants Score on Joinder Question at Federal Circuit
Publication Date: 2012-05-07
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The America Invents Act clamped down on the kinds of multi-defendant patent infringement suits favored by "trolls," but plenty of such cases are still pending. Now, thanks to a win Friday by lawyers at Orrick and Gibson Dunn, defendants may be able to split the cases into much more manageable bites, in friendlier jurisdictions.

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