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May 11, 2009 |

Key Ruling on Timing Of SEC Enforcement Actions

Gerald J. Russello, of counsel to Bingham McCutchen, writes that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently addressed two open questions: Does the statute of limitations begin to run against the SEC when that fraud is discovered, or could have been discovered by a person exercising reasonable diligence, and, secondly, in calculating the appropriate civil penalty, can prejudgment interest be included as part of the "pecuniary gain" a defendant received as a result of the violation?
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November 01, 2007 |

Liberalizing Use of Interrogatories in New York Actions

Daniel A. Cohen, a partner at Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, writes that CPLR 3130(1), which governs the use of interrogatories in New York civil actions, imposes two unnecessary restrictions. First, except in matrimonial actions, a party may not serve both interrogatories and a demand for bill of particulars on another party. Second, in negligence actions, a party may not both serve interrogatories on and depose another party without leave of court.
8 minute read
January 17, 2012 |

For this lawyer, liability fight is personal

California attorney Steve Filarsky, the name petitioner in Filarsky v. Delia, hopes the justices will grant qualified immunity from suits to private attorneys retained by a city to investigate personnel matters.
5 minute read
July 03, 2008 |

Young lawyer takes victory lap after Supreme Court gun case win

Supreme Court watchers questioned 37-year-old attorney Alan Gura's qualifications when he was tapped for the landmark Second Amendment case District of Columbia v. Heller. But now history will remember him as the lawyer who successfully argued that Americans have an individual right to keep and bear arms. Outside the Court last week, as gun rights advocates roared their approval, Gura smiled broadly in victory and signed copies of the Heller opinion like they just went gold.
5 minute read
September 08, 2003 |

People in the News

Movers and Shakers in the Philadelphia legal community.
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June 24, 2003 |

Public-Private Partnership Works to Improve Foster Care

A new approach to foster care is one more step off the drawing board and closer to helping Philadelphia's children, thanks to a collaboration among Schnader Harrison Segal Lewis, the city Department of Human Services and the Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program.
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September 08, 1999 |

Calendar Draws Supreme Kibitzers

Some of the titans of the U.S. Supreme Court bar have privately asked Chief Justice William Rehnquist to consider overhauling the court's calendar to take into account its drastically reduced docket. The reason: the court's new lean, mean docket is shaving days and weeks off the time lawyers have to brief their cases and prepare for oral arguments. But the extraordinary and unpublicized effort by more than a dozen veteran Supreme Court advocates has been politely rejected by Rehnquist.
12 minute read
March 01, 2007 |

New Deals

In a deal that will mark the biggest leveraged buyout ever, a private equity group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Texas Pacific Group have taken energy and power producer TXU Corp. private for $45 billion.
4 minute read
February 19, 2003 |

Med-Mal Cases Spawn Large Jury Awards

The American Medical Association claims that a dozen states are gripped by malpractice insurance crises and that the medical-liability system needs to be reformed. One-third of the biggest malpractice verdicts in 2002 were for pain and suffering and 13 malpractice awards were among The NLJ's Top 100 Verdicts.
3 minute read
November 28, 2007 |

Contract Law

Glen Banks, a partner of Fulbright & Jaworski, writes that the First Department recently addressed whether a contract is formed when a party communicates its intention not to be bound until it executes a written agreement and thereafter, by its words and conduct, appears to manifest its assent to the agreement.
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