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Rakoff Gets Amicus Support from Occupy Wall Street in Citi Appeal
Publication Date: 2012-05-23
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The group filed what appears to be its first amicus brief, urging the Second Circuit to uphold U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff's controversial rejection of the SEC's $285 million settlement with Citigroup. If you expected the brief to be stuffed with inflammatory rhetoric, you'd be wrong.

August 30, 2000 |

Charles R. Morgan, BellSouth Corp.

Charles R. Morgan is executive vice president and general counsel of BellSouth Corp., the third-biggest player in the U.S. local phone service market. He says, "Lawyers have an important role here. Their views are considered important. Nobody says, 'That's not a legal matter--we're not interested in your view.'I've told the lawyers, 'You're in in-house heaven here.'"
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Fifth Circuit Green-Lights $7 Billion Claims Against Proskauer, Other Stanford Advisors
Publication Date: 2012-03-20
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Victims of convicted Ponzi schemer R. Allen Stanford finally got some good news Monday when their class claims against law firms and other advisors accused of aiding in the multibillion dollar fraud were restored. And that's bad news for the primary targets of the litigation, which include Proskauer Rose, Chadbourne & Parke, and Adams & Reese.

May 04, 2000 |

10 Survival Tips For First-Year Associates

Fresh out of school, armed with a law degree and a passing grade on the bar exam, first year associates don't have a clue when it comes to practicing law. These 10 survival tips come straight from the source: junior partners and senior associates, all of whom started their practice in top-notch law firms.
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December 01, 2009 |

No More Baby Steps

After a terrific run as a big-firm partner, Pfizer's Amy Schulman knows how the game is played and has set out to change all the rules.
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Key Ruling in BofA Securities Class Action Gives Plaintiffs Access to Treasure Trove of Documents
Publication Date: 2009-11-18
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Shareholders' lawyers will get to see whatever the bank has turned over to Congress, the SEC, the New York attorney general, and other investigators--including, most likely, the communications between BofA and its lawyers that have already been turned over to the government.

May 07, 2002 |

Morgan Lewis Adds Real Estate Partner

J.J. Broderick has jumped from Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen to Morgan Lewis & Bockius as a partner in its real estate practice group.
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May 03, 2010 |

The Starting Line

Hogan Lovells is, as of Saturday, a reality. Now, the firm's leaders have to manage their leviathan and clean up the mass of details still facing them.
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Securities and Exchange Commission v. Raj Rajaratnam, 10-462-cv
Publication Date: 2010-09-30
Practice Area: Business Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Judge: Before: Raggi, Lynch, and Chin, C.JJ
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For plaintiff: Kevin P. McGrath, Senior Trial Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, New York, New York (Valerie A. Szczepanik, Senior Trial Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, New York, New York; David M. Becker, General Counsel, Mark D. Cahn, Deputy General Counsel, Jacob H. Stillman, Solicitor, Mark Pennington, Assistant General Counsel, David Lisitza, Senior Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee. Reed M. Brodsky, (Andrew L. Fish, on the brief), Assistant United States Attorneys for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, New York, for Amicus Curiae United States of America in support of Plaintiff-Appellee.
For defendant: Patricia A. Millett, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, DC (Robert H. Hotz, Jr., Samidh Guha, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, New York; John M. Dowd, Terence J. Lynam, William E. White, Kevin R. Amer, Issaac J. Lidsky, Anne J. Lee, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, DC, Alan R. Kaufman, James M. Keneally, Thomas B. Kinzler, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, New York, New York, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants. Craig Green, Associate Professor, Temple Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Douglas R. Jensen, Park & Jensen LLP, New York, New York, for Amici Curiae John Does Number One, Two and Three. Marc Rotenberg, (John Verdi, Jared Kaprove, on the brief), Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in support of Defendants-Appellants.
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Cite as: Securities and Exchange Commission v. Raj Rajaratnam, 10-462-cv, NYLJ 1202472687879, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided September 29, 2010)Before: Raggi, Lynch,

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