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August 25, 2000 |

Foster Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

When Paul Allen walked into Allen Israel's office 15 years ago, he was just another high-tech entrepreneur. "In 1985, when people said Microsoft, it wasn't the same impression people get today," says Israel, a senior corporate partner at Seattle's Foster Pepper & Shefelman. Israel now spends nearly all his billable hours on work for Allen, who has grown famous from his founding stake in Microsoft.
3 minute read
April 19, 2006 |

So you want to be in pictures: Sell your story to Hollywood

By Kellie Schmitt, The Recorder LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys meet with their death row client at one of America's most notorious prisons and tell him he's scheduled to die in the next month. After more than a decade of fighting for his innocence, the appeals have run out.As they drive in silence across Louisiana to break the news to the inmate's young son, one checks a voice mail.
6 minute read
January 21, 2005 |

In re Mercedes-Benz Antitrust Litigation

Where defendants moved for summary judgment and plaintiffs moved to strike affidavits filed in support of the motion because of defendants' failure to disclose affiants' identities (an officer for the corporation and an expert), or that they had knowledge of issues in support of the motion, defendants were required to disclose the identify of the officer but not the expert, and such failure was not harmless or justified; although the affidavit is not excluded, plaintiffs are given opportunity to depose him.
11 minute read
June 24, 2002 |

Long Aldridge Brought Hefty Increases to Merger Table

Julia D. [email protected] Long Aldridge Norman grew at a steady pace in 2001, and its equity partners' average profit increase was second only to King Spalding's. This allowed the firm to bring solid 2001 financials to its June 1 merger with Washington's 213-lawyer McKenna Cuneo, creating the 376-lawyer McKenna Long Aldridge.
3 minute read
September 03, 2009 |

New Deals

The Walt Disney Company announced Monday it will buy comic book giant Marvel Entertainment Inc. for about $4 billion in cash and stock. Under the deal, Disney will obtain the rights to Marvel characters such as the Hulk, Spiderman, Iron Man and X-Men?prized content for its movies, comic books, television shows, licensed merchandise and theme parks. Also, BB&T Corporation has purchased Montgomery, Alabama- based Colonial Bank from the FDIC, acquiring $22 billion in assets and $20 billion in deposits. Colonial was seized by the FDIC last month, making it the largest of 81 U.S. bank failures so far in 2009.
5 minute read
May 01, 2010 |

Winning Time

A pro bono fairy tale becomes a book.
3 minute read
May 11, 1999 |

Heston, NRA's Star Witness, Sticks to Story

During his hour of testimony, National Rifle Association President Charlton Heston drew a crowd of spectators as word spread through the building that ``Moses'' was on the witness stand. Heston told a Philidelphia federal court jury yesterday that he stands by the remarks he made to the New York Times in which he accused an NRA member of staging a disruption at the group's annual meeting. Closing arguments are expected to be held this morning.
5 minute read
February 16, 2005 |

Securities Litigation and Enforcement

John F.X. Peloso, senior counsel to Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, and Ben A. Indek, a partner with the firm, analyze ramifications of the Quattrone case.
12 minute read
February 08, 2000 |

Jonathan C. Benedict: Prosecuting Skakel

Connecticut State's Attorney Jonathan C. Benedict is preparing to prosecute Michael Skakel, charged on Jan. 19 for the murder of Greenwich teenager Martha Moxley in 1975. With another, separate murder case only at the jury selection stage, Benedict considered waiting a few months to issue an arrest warrant in the investigation. "But we didn't want to wait anymore," he said. "You've got a 15-year-old who was the victim of a brutal crime. The case is nearly 25 years old. Let's get going."
6 minute read
June 09, 2003 |

Bankruptcies

Notice to the bar.
8 minute read

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