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Do Oil Spill Victims Give Up Rights When They Accept Checks from BP?
Publication Date: 2010-06-07
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When we heard that the oil company has already doled out almost $50 million to Gulf Coast folk in economic peril, we wondered if BP had found an easy way to minimize its liability. The short answer: Nope.

March 19, 2010 |

Big Suits

U.S. v. BAE Systems; Cordis v. Boston Scientific; SEC v. State Street; Valassis v. News America et al.
8 minute read
July 01, 1999 |

The Producer

If litigation is theater and lead trial lawyers are the stars, then in-house counsel produce, direct, and cast the play. Their art lies in putting together the right elements and creating the right relationship between in-house and outside lawyers. Three of Corporate America's recent megawins show the variety of scripts they might adopt.
12 minute read
November 01, 2003 |

The Counsel You Keep

Hen William Lytton arrived at scandal-ridden Tyco International Ltd., in September 2002, he faced a ton of work. As the new general counsel, Lytton inherited an internal investigation of the company's misdeeds, a lawsuit against a handful of former Tyco officers, and a mountain of routine legal work generated by the conglomerate's some 2,000 subsidiaries.
8 minute read
July 01, 1999 |

The Producers

If litigation is theater and lead trial lawyers are the stars, then in-house counsel produce, direct, and cast the play. Their art lies in putting together the right elements and creating the right relationship between in-house and outside lawyers. Three of corporate America's recent mega-wins show the variety of scripts they might adopt.
12 minute read
October 12, 2004 |

Bush Targets Trial Lawyers With New Ad

President Bush is making trial lawyers a focal point of his campaign in a hotly contested electoral battleground. With Sen. John Kerry appearing to have opened a lead in recent polls of likely Pennsylvania voters, the president has aimed his advertising howitzer at the state's trial lawyers in TV and radio spots that began airing heavily in the Philadelphia area this past weekend. Prominent trial lawyers returned fire Monday, saying Bush is scapegoating them while protecting corporate contributors.
8 minute read
August 19, 2013 |

Energy=Expansion

In only three years, Houston's Burleson has more than tripled its size from 30 to 130 lawyers. The growth reflects the firm's relationships with oil and gas clients, whose legal needs have skyrocketed with that industry's growth in recent years due to hydraulic fracturing technology.
6 minute read
July 07, 1999 |

Two for the Road

Delaware's magnetism for big-bucks business bankruptcies experienced a rare reversal of fortune when the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the state sent two cases, including one of the largest filed here this year, to the home states where the debtor companies have their operations. TransTexas Gas Corp. and DeGeorge Financial Corp. were the sorts of cases that had litigators speculating Delaware could be in the midst of a record-setting year for bankruptcy filings, based on their volume and size.
7 minute read
October 22, 2003 |

The Counsel You Keep

When William Lytton arrived at scandal-ridden Tyco International Ltd. in September 2002, the new general counsel faced a ton of work, and there was no shortage of outside lawyers who wanted to help -- but he didn't want to see all the same old faces. Lytton's experience highlights an emerging trend: New general counsel are cleaning house upon arrival, and quickly fostering relationships with new firms.
8 minute read
August 04, 2008 |

Big business acts the bully

These days, when things do not work right, Americans are being bullied. Faceless, soulless "customer service" departments steal our dignity while pretending to pay attention to our complaints. Increasingly, we cannot do that other American thing: sue 'em. Mandatory arbitration takes care of that. The U.S. Supreme Court, expanding a 1925 law to places no member of Congress intended it to go, has allowed corporate bullies to limit their liability and hide their dirty linen through privatized "justice."
4 minute read

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