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October 19, 2012 |

Associates Class of 2012

The Law Journal's annual new-associate magazine.
138 minute read
November 25, 2009 |

Marketplace

Insurance firm Beazley USA Services will relocate its New York offices to 1270 Avenue of the Americas, adding space to support an expansion of its U.S. operations. Also, the Simons Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on advanced research in basic science and mathematics, has signed a lease for a new headquarters at 160 Fifth Ave.
3 minute read
November 01, 2007 |

Corporate Fraud Data Base

32 minute read
December 12, 2007 |

Mintz Levin Loses Bid to Up Diversity

In 2005, Mintz Levin unveiled a major initiative to enhance the firm's diversity, hiring 12 predominantly minority labor and employment attorneys in one fell swoop. Now, however, the attorneys have scattered to competing firms, leaving in their wake questions about how the much-touted group could fall apart in such a short period of time. Though D.C. managing partner Cherie Kiser says the group had the firm's "full support," some say Mintz Levin didn't put much emphasis on cross-selling its services.
7 minute read
September 25, 2013 |

Revisiting the Forbes 400 and Its Deep-Pocketed Attorneys

Three years after considering the credentials of the lawyers littering Forbes' annual list of America's 400 richest people, The Am Law Daily decided to revisit the wealth rankings and examine the legal lineage of both holdovers from 2010 and several who made their way into the upper echelon since the last time we looked.
15 minute read
June 21, 2001 |

Merck's AIDS Brochure Libeled Woman, New York Court Rules

Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. and a Manhattan advertising agency it hired to promote the anti-AIDS drug Crixivan have been found liable in a defamation and civil rights lawsuit brought in New York's state supreme court by a woman whose photograph was published, along with a fictitious biography and medical history, in brochures used to market the drug directly to AIDS patients.
6 minute read
February 03, 2003 |

Honor Roll for 2002

The newest partners at D.C., Northern Virginia, and suburban Maryland offices.
34 minute read
April 24, 2001 |

Big Tobacco Can't Use 'Pass-On' Defense in RICO Suit

Tobacco companies accused of lying about the dangers of smoking by Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield of New York cannot claim as a defense that increased health costs have been passed on to consumers, a federal judge ruled. The judge told lawyers that a "pass-on" defense -- minimizing a plaintiff's damages by showing that a third party absorbed the increased cost -- is not available in a fraud action brought under RICO.
4 minute read
April 12, 1999 |

Health Fund Suits Against Tobacco Giants Rejected

A 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Friday that two New York union health funds and four public employees' health plans can't proceed with class action suits against major tobacco companies. The panel said in Laborers Local 17 Health and Benefit Fund v. Philip Morris Inc. that the economic damages allegedly suffered by the plaintiffs were too remote to be actionable. Last month, the 3rd Circuit upheld the dismissal of a similar labor fund class action in Pennsylvania.
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