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L.A. Federal Judge Refuses to Dismiss Countrywide Subprime Class Action--Again
Publication Date: 2009-04-08
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Los Angeles federal judge Mariana Pfaelzer denied motions by Countrywide, its auditors, its underwriters, and its outside directors to dismiss an amended shareholder class action against them. The ruling comes less than four months after Judge Pfaelzer denied motions to dismiss the plaintiffs' first complaint. She has also refused to dismiss a shareholders derivative suit against several Countrywide directors and officers.

August 23, 2004 |

Warner-Lambert Company v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

The evidence establishes that plaintiff's patent was neither obvious nor anticipated in the prior art, and its inventors did not act with an intent to deceive the Patent and Trademark Office by failing to call to the patent examiner's attention a competitor's product.
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Former Brown & Wood Partner Convicted in KPMG Case
Publication Date: 2008-12-18
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The government's KPMG tax case has certainly had its share of setbacks, but yesterday it achieved some redemption. A federal jury in Manhattan convicted Raymond Ruble, a former partner at Brown & Wood, along with Robert Pfaff and John Larson, two former KPMG executives, of multiple counts of fraud, conspiracy, and tax evasion. A third KPMG executive, David Greenberg, was acquitted.

Tobacco Companies, Defense Lawyers Gearing Up for St. Louis Megatrial over Hospitals' Health Care Cost Claims
Publication Date: 2011-01-13
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The industry is flying in a small army of lawyers in advance of the Jan. 31 trial date.

July 31, 2008 |

Associates Survey 2008

Smaller firms often outscore larger ones on our annual survey of midlevel job satisfaction. It may be because a more intimate atmosphere breeds happiness. Maybe it's because associates have more responsibility. Perhaps it's because they have a better chance of making partner. In these charts, firms are grouped roughly according to size. In the first category are firms whose annual gross revenues are too low to qualify for the Am Law 200. These are the smallest firms that took part in our survey. In the second category are Am Law Second Hundred firms?numbers 101-200 on the most recent Am Law 200 survey (July.) In the final category are firms that appear on our most recent Am Law 100 (May) or Global 100 (October 2007) survey. For a full methodology, click here.
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December 02, 2005 |

Accolades

For outstanding pro bono business counsel given to nonprofit organizations, the Lawyers Alliance for New York presented its annual Cornerstone Awards to Proskauer Rose and Shearman & Sterling, nine individual attorneys and a Columbia Law School professor during a reception last month at the Colgate-Palmolive headquarters on Park Avenue.
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June 29, 2011 |

The 2011 Diversity Scorecard

This year's Diversity Scorecard shows that minorities are slowly winning back previous gains.
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Aereo Hits CBS with Preemptive Lawsuit Ahead of Big Expansion
Publication Date: 2013-05-06
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Between a big appellate victory last month and plans for a 22-city expansion, the online television company Aereo Inc. has been on quite a roll.

December 01, 2003 |

Final Enron Report Criticizes V&E and Andrews & Kurth

Nearly two years after Enron Corp. filed a Chapter 11 in the wake of a massive drop in its stock price, a bankruptcy examiner's fourth and final report concludes that outside lawyers at Vinson & Elkins and Andrews & Kurth may have been negligent or may have aided and abetted Enron officers in breaching their fiduciary duties to the battered company.
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