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September 13, 2013 |

Tips on Legal Writing From Elmore Leonard

Legal writing is seldom lean or neat and often does not cut to the chase. For lawyers, there is much to learn from Elmore Leonard, and his 10 rules for good writing apply equally to us, if we listen. But if, as he wrote, "the sound of your voice pleases you … you can skip the rules."
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October 16, 2001 |

Thank You, Milberg Weiss

On Sept. 7, the Manhattan's federal courthouse was filled with hundreds of lawyers from dozens of top firms for a hearing before U.S. District Judge Judge Shira Scheindlin. The source of the billable orgy was IPO allocation litigation. Plaintiffs have filed more than 800 class actions in New York City -- consolidated before Scheindlin -- claiming that the tech IPO market of the late 1990s spawned a racket.
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Banks Lose Landmark Trial in Italy over Swap Deal
Publication Date: 2012-12-20
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Milan lost an estimated $100 million in a complex interest rate swap deal that it made with four banks in the run-up to the financial crisis. But the city fought back, becoming among the first municipalities to file criminal fraud charges against the banks under an Italian law that lets prosecutors file quasi-criminal charges against companies and their managers.

June 04, 2007 |

CPLR �7502(c): Changes to Aid Arbitration Remedies

Cliff Thau, a partner at Vinson & Elkins, and Ari M. Berman, an associate at the firm, write that in the wake of its enactment, commentators paid significant attention to the fact that the amendment to CPLR �7502(c) enables New York courts to issue preliminary injunctions and attachments in aid of all arbitrations, both domestic and foreign. Practitioners should take note of three additional issues relating to the amendment.
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Litigation Department of the Year: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
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When other firms and conventional strategies come up short, clients in deep trouble turn to Gibson, Dunn for fresh, aggressive thinking and innovative rescues.

December 13, 2005 |

DLA Piper Gets Green Light for Office in Beijing

Expanding its global presence in one of the fastest-growing markets in the world, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary received approval by the Ministry of Justice to open up another office in China, this time in Beijing. The Beijing office will be the home base for 42 attorneys DLA Piper recently acquired in that city from the disbanded Coudert Brothers.
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October 01, 2010 |

A Global Lawyer in an Italian Suit

Telecom Italia's GC has one of Europe's most eventful in-house roles.
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The Global Lawyer: Exporting the First Amendment
Publication Date: 2012-10-30
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Media law exports come in two main packages—a free press, and freedom of information—and both are usually marked "Return to Sender." A new book, Exporting the Matrix: The Campaign to Reform Media Laws Abroad, describes some recent small victories achieved in pro bono projects around the world.

August 25, 1999 |

The Tattoo Parlor

Compensation is a serious sticking point for all firms attempting to strike a balance between rewarding rainmakers and evenly divvying up profits among partners, but one California firm has avoided the dilemma altogether with "tattooing." It works like this: The first partner to do business for a client can "tattoo" that client as his own. As long as that partner remains breathing and with the firm, no other partner can get billing credit for work done on behalf of that client.
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The Global Lawyer: How Not to Be an Evil Law Firm
Publication Date: 2011-12-06
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A new report on law firm social responsibility moves way beyond pro bono and asks firms to hew to international human rights principles--even if it means dropping clients.

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