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Vermont Torts to Govern Suit Against IBM
A Westchester County, N.Y., judge has ruled that a teenager with birth defects can sue IBM in New York under the laws of Vermont, where the young woman's father worked in an IBM factory and allegedly contaminated his pregnant wife with chemicals. The ruling establishes tort rights for Vermont plaintiffs among those suing IBM in New York over chemicals at its plants in East Fishkill, N.Y., and Burlington, Vt.Miami Lawyer Loses Enron Assignment to New York, Houston Firms
In a surprising turn of events, the firms Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman in New York and McClain & Siegel in Houston outmaneuvered Scott L. Baena, a partner with Bilzin Sumberg Dunn Baena Axelrod & Price in Miami, and jointly won the position as counsel to the Severed Enron Employee Coalition (SEEC). In January, Baena was retained by the SEEC to win a separate, employee-only committee.Justices Reluctant to Tinker With SOX Oversight Board
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared inclined to leave well enough alone Monday and not tinker with the structure of an accounting oversight board created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.Circuit Ends Doctors' Antitrust Litigation
Problems with venue and a lack of standing have doomed an antitrust case brought by a proposed class of some 14,000 emergency room physicians who claimed that the American Board of Emergency Medicine, the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors and several hospitals colluded to use the physician certification process to restrain trade and monopolize the market for emergency-room doctors.Sign of the Times: Large Firms in Texas Make More Partners in 2005
The number of new partner promotions at Texas' largest firms increased for 2005, but the percentage of minority and female partners decreased when compared with 2004.Cite as: Ostroy v. Six Square LLC, 114674/08, NYLJ 1202499783004, at *1 (Sup., NY, Decided June 17, 2011)Justice Louis B. YorkDecided: Ju
Law Firms' Pursuit of Bank Business Still Going Strong One Year After Lehman's Collapse
One year after Lehman Brothers collapsed, the law firms that relied on it for significant billables are still adjusting to a marketplace with one fewer player. For some of the firms that served as Lehman's outside counsel, the work goes on in bankruptcy court. Yet in the past year, firms have been chasing their old contacts at Lehman who have scattered to other financial institutions. The competition is heating up as Lehman's former firms vie for work performed by other banks' long-time outside counsel.Creating a Culture of Compliance
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