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A Conversation With Class Action Objector Ted Frank
Publication Date: 2011-03-04
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Ted Frank's purchase of a Grand Theft Auto video game eventually led him to quit his fellowship at the American Enterprise Institute and devote himself to objecting to class actions settlements that he believes are orchestrated mainly to enrich plaintiffs lawyers.

June 14, 2011 |

Federal Election Commission just wants its name right

Should it be called the United States Federal Election Commission? Or is it simply the Federal Election Commission?
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Community Health Systems Withdraws Its $4 Billion Takeover Bid for Tenet, But Tenet's Securities and Medicare Fraud Claims Against CHS Linger On
Publication Date: 2011-05-10
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Even if Tenet drops the securities suit it leveled at CHS in the midst of the takeover battle, allegations in the suit that CHS overbilled Medicare are here to stay.

June 06, 2011 |

NY Partners Switching Firms

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August 19, 2010 |

Pittsburgh Business Law Boutique Opens in Chicago

Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl has done what few other Pittsburgh firms have in their expansion plans: headed west.
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Google Gets Outside Help in Oracle Copyright Fight
Publication Date: 2013-06-03
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As the titanic copyright battle between Oracle and Google continues at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Google is hoping for a shot in the arm from amicus briefs filed last week by a parade of computer scientists, law professors, and application developers.

September 15, 2005 |

Corporate Securities

John C. Coffee, Jr., Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School, writes that the WorldCom decision makes clear that Rule 176 provides no real protection from Section 11 liability, and the SEC's "securities offerings reforms" did nothing to change that. He suggests extending a qualified immunity to independent directors if they adopt procedures that promise far more careful investigations than in the past.
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March 11, 2008 |

Big-Firm Associates: Why They Go and How to Keep Them

At the 250 largest law firms, the arrows are pointing up for many associate indicators. But for all this effort, one critical indicator is down. The larger law firms are reported to be losing 30, 40, 50 percent of associates after three to four years � with half to two-thirds of the defections due to associate, not firm, choice.
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May 28, 2008 |

The Lost Generation

An examination of why young associates are leaving their large law firms after only five years and what can be done to stop this short tenure.
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July 06, 1999 |

Did Amoco's Efforts Backfire?

It appears that BP Amoco's widely acclaimed but risky efforts to find out why a number of employees have been stricken with deadly brain cancer since 1986 is coming back to haunt the company. BP Amoco began its investigation before any employees brought suit against the company, but now some workers who have contracted benign brain tumors or extra-cranial cancers have become so angry with how the company has handled the matter that they have taken matters into their own hands.
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