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June 26, 2003 |

Family Ties Bind Lawyer in BellSouth Race Case

Jonathan [email protected] in the law are honored traditions in some families, but for an Alabama federal judge and his nephew, their shared profession may be causing more aggravation than ancestral pride.Last week, a split federal appeals panel refused to disturb a decision that booted Birmingham lawyer Terry Price as defense counsel for BellSouth Corp.
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Kirkland and BP: Reunited for the Gulf Oil Spill?
Publication Date: 2010-05-05
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Back in the 1980s, Kirkland helped BP predecessor Amoco weather the litigation fallout from a record-setting supertanker spill off the coast of France. We're hearing that BP is planning to call on its old friends from K&E to contain the damage from the Gulf Coast spill as well. Plus: BP is enjoined from demanding indemnity from cleanup volunteers; and the plaintiffs bar begins to fire up cases.

June 22, 2010 |

Scuba divers bring oil-spill suit; lawyers gush into New Orleans

Plaintiffs' lawyers are converging on New Orleans Wednesday for another Gulf Coast oil spill gathering to discuss everything from the parallels with the Exxon Valdez disaster to the best trial techniques to nail an oil giant. Among the lawsuits gushing from the disaster is one filed on behalf of a scuba diving company which claims the spill has scared off customers.
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June 23, 2010 |

Plaintiffs Lawyers Gather to Strategize Oil Spill Suits

Plaintiffs lawyers are converging on New Orleans today for another Gulf Coast oil spill gathering to discuss everything from the parallels with the Exxon Valdez disaster to the best trial techniques to nail an oil giant. No doubt the lawyers will also consider Tuesday's decision by U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman of New Orleans to block the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling. And with the oil still gushing, cases keep coming. The latest to join the fray: scuba divers.
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November 22, 2004 |

Latest Brobeck Settlement Stalls After Objections

A federal bankruptcy judge delayed ruling on a proposed settlement between Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's estate and Citibank FSB after former Brobeck partners raised objections. Under the deal, Citibank would take $2.85 million in cash as full payment for the $8.2 million still owed by Brobeck's estate. Brobeck's bankruptcy trustee would take over its Citibank debt, paying it by using money from a prior settlement with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.
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November 22, 2004 |

Latest Brobeck Settlement Stalls After Objections

A U.S. bankruptcy judge delayed ruling on a proposed settlement between Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's estate and Citibank FSB after objections were raised by former Brobeck partners. At a hearing Friday before Judge Dennis Montali, attorneys for a group of former partners said the deal would breach their loan agreement with Citibank, saying it could only be assigned to another financial institution.
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September 09, 2009 |

Policyholders filing more suspicious claims — or are they?

Could be another sign of the economy: More Americans are filing suspicious insurance claims this year, making allegedly bogus efforts to collect on everything from broken glass to car fires, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. In a report released Sept. 9, the NICB, a trade group for the insurance industry that monitors fraud, said that roughly 41,600 "questionable claims" were reported by insurance companies in the first half of 2009, compared with 36,700 in the first half of 2008 — a 13% increase.
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August 05, 2009 |

Citing Madoff, Judge Slams SEC for 'Relentless' Pursuit of Legitimate Company

A federal judge in Atlanta has sharply criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission for what he described as a seven-year "relentless pursuit" of a Tennessee businessman and his lawyer partner while "studiously ignoring Bernard Madoff and the largest Ponzi scheme in American history." Judge Marvin Shoob fined defendants Steven Wyer, Tennessee attorney Kurt Beasley and their defunct capital investment company, Merchant Capital, a total of $58,000 -- not the $10 million the SEC asked for.
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March 22, 2004 |

11th Circuit Judge Urges High Court Review in Exxon Case

U.S. Supreme Court experts say justices allow legal questions to "percolate" in lower courts before settling a matter. But in a dissent from an 11th Circuit refusal to reconsider an ExxonMobil appeal, one judge is urging the Court to declare which side of a circuit court split is right. At stake is a $500 million dispute and the ability of plaintiffs from one state to bring federal class actions against defendants in another state.
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