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September 08, 2008 |

Lawyers Worked Weeks on Plan for Fannie, Freddie

In the weeks leading up to the federal government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, dozens of top lawyers worked to figure out the best way to save the two Washington-area mortgage giants.
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In BofA's Very Litigious Week, $4 Billion Case Against Bear Stearns Survives Motion to Dismiss
Publication Date: 2009-10-02
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If revenue is down this year among Am Law 100 firms, don't blame Bank of America. BofA is doing its best to boost the fortunes of America's big-firm lawyers, as evidenced by a particularly litigious week in which the bank faced an amended securities class action complaint, stepped up the defense of its soon-to-be-former CEO, settled an employment dispute, and got some good news from a Manhattan federal district court judge not named Rakoff.

May 30, 2008 |

The A-List (51-200)

Lawyers like to lament the passing of their fabled past, when partners knew each other on sight, firms contented themselves to operating in one ZIP code and junior associates were not a menacing anonymous horde threatening to take out their frustrations via the blogosphere. As it happens, in the big-firm world those days aren't gone, they've just moved to the Am Law Second Hundred ranks, where firms are prosperous and growing steadily but retain the possibility of old-fashioned cohesion.
28 minute read
September 28, 2007 |

Filing a Malpractice Suit Against a Firm? Better Be Quick About It

A Thursday ruling from the California Supreme Court gives former law firm clients less time to hit a firm with a malpractice suit. The clock for filing a malpractice suit starts ticking when a client ends its relationship with a law firm -- even if the client still retains one of the firm's former attorneys, the court ruled. The ruling gets former partners of the now-defunct Arter & Hadden off the hook for any damages in a $3.5 million malpractice suit filed in 2003 by Texas-based Beal Bank.
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October 05, 1999 |

Brooklyn Museum Dispute Heads to Court

The two sides in the controversy over the "Sensation" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art wrangled over discovery Monday. Floyd Abrams, who represents the museum, filed a memorandum in support of a motion for a preliminary injunction against the City and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani personally. "Sensation," which opened to record crowds, includes a piece on the Virgin Mary partially composed with elephant dung. The museum filed suit after City officials said they would withhold funding.
3 minute read
September 27, 2007 |

Hip and Knee Implant Makers To Pay $311M To Avoid Kickback Prosecution

Four major manufacturers of hip and knee replacement devices have agreed to pay $311 million in fines to avoid prosecution for allegedly giving financial inducements to doctors who used their products.
3 minute read
March 22, 2007 |

Supreme Court Asked to Consider Gender Discrimination in Sports Programs

According to Communities for Equity, a group that advocates on behalf of Title IX compliance and gender equity in sports, the decision by the Michigan High School Athletic Association to schedule girls' sports in nontraditional seasons violates the girls' constitutional and statutory rights. Whether the scheduling decision is constitutional is just one of the issues implicated in a case the Supreme Court will consider, among other petitions for review, at an upcoming private conference.
8 minute read
January 23, 2007 |

Trial Practice

Robert S. Kelner, senior partner at Kelner and Kelner, and Gail S. Kelner, an attorney with the firm, write that it is lamentable that it is apparently more cost-effective to lose a few anonymous workers than to ensure a safe workplace. Sanctions and stringent enforcement of workplace safety rules have never been more urgently needed to stem the tide of worker death and injury. Those in control of the workplace should not be allowed to operate "on the cheap" in the state of New York.
12 minute read
September 02, 1999 |

L.A. Firms Top N.Y.'s in Coastal Warfare

With apologies to Frank Sinatra, anyone who thinks, "If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere" hasn't followed the fate of the branch offices that Wall Street law firms opened in L.A. en masse in the mid- to-late 1980s. Of the 25 largest in place in 1990, a National Law Journal survey found that 11 have scaled down, eight others have closed, and one has renewed its lease on an office with no lawyers assigned to it.
8 minute read
January 18, 2008 |

Criminal Law and Procedure

Barry Kamins, a member of Flamhaft Levy Kamins Hirsch & Rendeiro, writes that last month, the New York Court of Appeals revisited the issue of appellate weight of evidence review in criminal cases and clarified the scope of such analysis. In so doing, the Court may have blurred the dividing line between two layers of appellate review afforded by the Appellate Division: legal sufficiency and weight of the evidence.
12 minute read

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