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Second Time's the Charm for Plaintiffs in Antitrust Class Action over Optical Disk Drives
Publication Date: 2012-04-22
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A dozen Am Law firms failed to convince a federal judge in San Francisco to throw out claims that many of the world's leading consumer electronics companies conspired to fix prices for CD, DVD and Blu Ray recordable and rewritable drives.

September 27, 2010 |

Winston & Strawn Kicked Off $1 Billion Pfizer Case

Citing a conflict of interest, a federal magistrate judge in Utah has blocked Winston & Strawn from representing Pfizer in a $1 billion lawsuit brought by Brigham Young University over the drug Celebrex. The problem is that Winston & Strawn partner Gene Schaerr represented BYU in other matters at the same time that Winston & Strawn was representing Pfizer. Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells said that Winston & Strawn appeared to "abandon" BYU in favor of a more lucrative matter.
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October 31, 2007 |

Is Fighting Your Patent Case in Public Really a Good Idea?

The existence of millions of blogs proves that everyone has an opinion. But you won't often find the general counsel of a major tech company shooting his mouth off about ongoing patent litigation. Yet, Sun Microsystems' GC and CEO have been blogging about their company's IP battle with Network Appliances, trading barbs with a NetApp co-founder, who has been commenting on the case on his own blog. Some of the comments have turned personal.
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December 22, 2006 |

Accolades

For the first time in its 18-year history, the Mexican Bar Association has bestowed its National Jurisprudence Prize to a foreigner - Donald Francis Donovan. A litigation partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, Mr. Donovan was honored in Mexico City on Dec. 7 for his pro bono work in international arbitration and human rights - and especially for his representation of Mexican nationals on death row in U.S. prisons.
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February 14, 2006 |

First-Year Pay on the Rise at Three Philadelphia Firms

Just as folks were digging out from this weekend's snowstorm, a new front hit Philadelphia on Monday: salary increases. Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen raised its starting salary for first-year associates to $125,000. Then, Duane Morris said it would do the same. That was followed by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius bumping up first-year salaries to $135,000 in Philadelphia and many other locations and giving an even higher increase to first-year associates in New York, boosting them to $145,000.
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June 14, 2010 |

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October 02, 2013 |

Is It Still Safe To Invest In Latin America?

Technical remedies in the form of ad hoc arbitration render Latin America reasonably secure despite the departure of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador from the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention.
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Delaware High Court Nixes Shareholder Suit over Botox Marketing
Publication Date: 2013-04-04
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A Delaware Chancery Court ruling in shareholder litigation over Allergan's Botox marketing had some stinging language for the plaintiffs bar, but the sting was worse for Allergan and other defendants. Now, thanks to lawyers at Gibson Dunn and Morris Nichols, it's been erased.

February 10, 2005 |

Pillsbury Winthrop Inks Merger Deal With Shaw Pittman

San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop and Washington, D.C.-based Shaw Pittman announced Wednesday that they intend to merge, creating a 900-lawyer giant with national reach and global ambitions. The merger would catapult the newly-formed firm into the top quarter of The Am Law 100 list, long a stated goal of Pillsbury chairwoman Mary Cranston. However, many details remain -- including how many attorneys will exit because of client conflicts and how changes in compensation will shake out.
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