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February 14, 2007 |

25-Year-Old Legal-Mal Litigation Lives On Despite Plaintiff's Death

Texas' 1st Court of Appeals has breathed new life into a quarter-century old legal battle that began when one Houston lawyer agreed to represent a woman seeking to collect on loans she made to another Houston lawyer. Although Carol Whitsett died in 2002, her $6.5 million legal malpractice suit against her former attorney, William E. Junell Jr., and Junell's former firm, Andrews Kurth, lives on, with the state appeals court ruling that the statute of limitations does not block the continued litigation.
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March 23, 2006 |

Fannie Mae's New GC

After taking down terrorists, prosecuting Colombian drug dealers and dispatching mass murderers to death row, former federal prosecutor Beth Wilkinson is tangling with a new kind of foe: Fannie Mae's critics on Capitol Hill. Wilkinson was appointed executive VP and general counsel of the Federal National Mortgage Association in December, and she now oversees a 120-attorney department. Wilkinson came to Fannie Mae from Latham & Watkins, where she had worked since 1998.
2 minute read
September 26, 2005 |

2005 Revoked List

Notice to the bar.
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December 15, 2003 |

Yesterday's Deals

For the past quarter-century, federal antitrust agencies have focused their efforts almost entirely on enjoining proposed, rather than consummated, mergers. Yet in the past three years the Federal Trade Commission has reversed course. The most difficult issue in dealing with completed mergers is that of appropriate remedies. If the remedy is too harsh, will valuable assets be destroyed? If the remedy is too cautious, will it have a curative effect at all?
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September 07, 2006 |

Tort Reform's Next Big Push

Tort reform groups and lawyers representing some of the nation's largest corporations are working with state legislators to amend consumer protection laws, seeking to curb what they see as costly class actions. The new momentum represents continuing fallout from California's Proposition 64, a landmark 2004 initiative that tightened the reins on consumer cases in that state. Tort reformers are circulating model legislation and hope to introduce proposed amendments as early as December in some states.
8 minute read
April 25, 2006 |

2nd Circuit Revives Suit Over Man's Refusal to Work on Sunday

A New York federal judge should not have granted summary judgment to Home Depot in a religious discrimination claim brought by a worker who said his faith barred him from working on Sundays, the 2nd Circuit has ruled. The panel said the trial court incorrectly concluded that the offer to let the worker work only Sunday afternoons and evenings was a sufficient attempt to accommodate his religious beliefs -- but said that an offer of part-time employment or changing shifts with co-workers might suffice.
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April 21, 2008 |

Former Clients Sue Howrey After Alleged Patent Deal Sours

Two former clients have sued Howrey partner Michael S. Dowler and the firm, alleging breach of fiduciary duty after an alleged deal to buy a patent for $1 million went sour. The plaintiffs allege that Dowler was their lawyer in a variety of patent matters and that he brought a patent to them for potential purchase, demanded an "under the radar" verbal deal for 50 percent of net profits to be derived from the patent and breached his fiduciary duty by misrepresent[ing] the value of the patent."
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September 15, 2004 |

Being Dan Webb

Winston & Strawn partner Dan Webb, dubbed a "superlawyer" by The New York Times, is used to handling companies' high-profile legal matters -- ranging from Wyeth's fen-phen woes to a Microsoft trademark beef -- but even he calls an upcoming federal proceeding "the mother of all trials." Webb is the lead lawyer for Philip Morris USA Inc., the nation's biggest cigarette maker and currently at the center of a $280 billion racketeering suit that the DOJ has filed against the tobacco industry.
22 minute read
January 20, 2004 |

State Wage Payment Laws Pose Unique Challenges

Suits alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act have skyrocketed. These suits, often class actions, generally revolve around improper employee classification and wrongful denial of overtime compensation. At the same time, another front on the wage-and-hour landscape has emerged: litigation arising from state wage payment statutes, which present their own unique protections, opportunities and challenges.
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