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June 20, 2007 |

Wiley Rein, Insurer Sanctioned $1.25 Million

Failure to disclose a key insurance document for the Port Authority at the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and other discovery abuses will cost Wiley Rein and Coughlin Duffy. The firms and the insurance company they represented have been sanctioned $1.25 million by a New York judge, who said the company's document destruction and attorneys' misleading statements added millions of dollars to the cost of prosecuting suits on behalf of people who suffered losses in the 2001 attacks.
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August 19, 2013 |

INADMISSIBLE: Familiar Faces at Jackson Sentencing

As former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. prepared to receive his sentence last week, he had a familiar face at his side. Steptoe & Johnson litigation partner Reid Weingarten represented Jackson when he was a witness in the 2011 retrial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Plus more in this week's column.
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April 13, 2001 |

KPMG Claims Lernout & Hauspie Execs Lied During Audit

KPMG Bedrijfsrevisoren, the Belgian subsidiary of KPMG International and outside auditor for bankrupt Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, claims it has proof that former L&H managers impeded the accounting firm's audit by providing false information. L&H shareholders earlier this month filed a class action lawsuit against KMPG, alleging it failed to comply with many Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
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June 24, 2013 |

Covington Repping Top Tech Companies Amid NSA Data Push

Covington & Burling is advising AOL and Microsoft in response to the National Security Agency's secret surveillance data requests, as the ex–government contractor who leaked details about the government's top secret spying program earlier this month to a former Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz associate seeks asylum in Ecuador with the aid of lawyers from WikiLeaks.
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June 20, 2007 |

Wiley Rein, Insurer Sanctioned $1.25 Million

Failure to disclose a key insurance document for the Port Authority at the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and other discovery abuses will cost Wiley Rein and Coughlin Duffy. The firms and the insurance company they represented have been sanctioned $1.25 million by a New York judge, who said the company's document destruction and attorneys' misleading statements added millions of dollars to the cost of prosecuting suits on behalf of people who suffered losses in the 2001 attacks.
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Williams & Connolly's Villa Wins Another Refco Dismissal for Mayer Brown
Publication Date: 2009-08-27
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It certainly wasn't good news for Mayer Brown when partner Joseph Collins was convicted in July of conspiracy, securities fraud, and wire fraud arising from his work as an outside lawyer for the fraudulent brokerage firm Refco Inc. But, as far as the firm is concerned, things could be worse. So far, Mayer Brown has succeeded in beating back nearly every attempt to hold it liable in civil suits for the damage caused by Refco's collapse in 2005. In the latest victory, a federal judge this week dismissed a suit brought on behalf of some of Refco's former brokerage customers who claimed to have lost more than a half billion dollars.

July 23, 2010 |

News In Brief

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August 17, 2012 |

New Leaders of the Bar

The Law Journal's yearly album of profiles of rising stars in the New Jersey legal profession ... all under 40.
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July 01, 2013 |

Arbitration Scorecard 2013: Contract Disputes

Contract arbitrations active in 2011–12 in which at least $500 million was in dispute.
47 minute read
January 29, 2010 |

LegalTech Descends on New York

As improvements in information technology continue to impact e-discovery, online research, case and matter management, and time and billing software, lawyers are better equipped to render quality legal services, retain more clients, and master the business of law. What are the next improvements in IT for the legal profession? Law.com Technology Editor Sean Doherty previews the advances expected to share the spotlight at LegalTech New York, being held Feb. 1-3.
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