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DLA and Piper Rudnick Make Merger Official
London's DLA and the partners of Piper Rudnick voted to merge the firms Saturday, creating what on Jan. 1 will be the world's third-largest law firm measured by lawyers and fifth-largest measured by revenues.Appealed from: United States District Court for the Northern District of FloridaChief Judge C. Roger VinsonWilliam O. Schism and Robert L. Reinlie (the retirees) appeal the grant of summary judg
Justice W. Gerard AsherBank of America v. Malik (09/15988)—Case DisposedJustice Steph
Gide Adds Trio to Vietnam Office in International Reshuffle
Gide Loyrette Nouel is building up its Vietnam presence, adding three lawyers to its Ho Chi Minh City office this month. The French firm relocated Jacques de Servigny to be the new partner-in-charge of the Vietnam practice, which also has an office in Hanoi. De Servigny headed Gide's Budapest office since it opened in 1993 and helped oversee the firm's Eastern European expansion. Gide also hired Sullivan & Cromwell's London-based associate Samantha Campbell to head its Vietnam banking and finance practice.Nearly 50 amicus briefs have piled up arguing for and against corporate liability for overseas human rights violations, as Quinn Emanuel's Kathleen Sullivan prepares to argue for Royal Dutch Shell in the first case of the new U.S. Supreme Court term.
Democracy Takes a Hit at Anderson Kill
How does a law firm that treats all its lawyers as partners and is ruled by a one-person, one-vote philosophy fire 15 percent of its members? Egalitarianism goes by the wayside. The firm changes its partnership agreement to concentrate power in the hands of a three-person executive committee before the axe falls. Such was the case at New York's Anderson Kill & Olick, which on March 12 fired 22 of 130 partners.District Judge Louis L. Stanton U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Attorneys for Plaintiffs Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. William M. Hoheng
Despite instructions from the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its earlier ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Thursday certified—for the second time in two years—a consumer class action against Whirlpool Corp.
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