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Susan Beck's Summary Judgment: Let's Take Concepcion in a Sensible and Fair Direction
Publication Date: 2012-06-01
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Does the Supreme Court's ruling in Concepcion mean that the business world's love affair with arbitration should trump all other considerations, even basic notions of fairness? I sure hope not. The justices may have a chance to revisit the issue, given a recent and public split in the Second Circuit in a case involving American Express.

November 30, 2009 |

Law Firms Promote Fewer Senior Associates to Partnership

Fewer associates are winning promotion to partnership this year, a trend industry experts say is a result of the economic downturn. This month, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton elected four new partners firmwide, half as many as in 2008, while Latham & Watkins cut its firmwide promotions 25 percent to 23. Consultants say the trend likely is a reflection of the financial condition law firms have found themselves in, with demand for legal services down and profits falling.
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July 26, 1999 |

Fee-Fight Recipe: A Bunch of Lawyers, $30 Million

The Los Angeles office of Graham & James has at last secured victory in a drawn-out patent case that could bring in a contingency fee of more than $30 million. So why isn't everyone smiling? Maybe it's because the fee came only after a tiring, two-trial, two-appeal court battle, but it may also be due to the internecine fighting in the L.A. office over who will get what and under what circumstances.
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September 25, 2009 |

Dennis Quaid Wants Case About His Infant Twins' Drug Overdose to Stay in Illinois

Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife are trying to take their case against Baxter Healthcare Corp. to the highest court in Illinois two years after their infant twins suffered a drug overdose due in part, they argue, to the company's confusing drug labeling. The Quaids, represented by Chicago attorneys Susan Loggans and William Harte, petitioned the Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday to review their case and potentially overturn an appellate court ruling dismissing their lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds.
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April 02, 2010 |

Supreme Court Ruling Opens Courts to More Class Actions

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented in a ruling that allows certain class actions barred or limited by state laws to be pursued in federal courts.
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Elliott Associates v. Porsche Automobil Holding, 10 Civ. 0532
Publication Date: 2011-01-04
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Case number: 10 Civ. 0532 (HB)

Cite as: Elliott Associates v. Porsche Automobil Holding, 10 Civ. 0532, NYLJ 1202476997376, at *1 (SDNY, Decided December 30, 2010)Before: Harold Baer, Jr.

April 19, 2010 |

LoL, BTW ... My Boss Is Monitoring Every Text That I Send, ;)

The Supreme Court on Monday leaps into the high-tech world of text messaging in a challenge with potentially huge implications for the privacy rights of senders and receivers and for workplace communications.
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December 07, 2004 |

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.
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September 30, 2009 |

The Leader Board

These are the Global 100 firms with the largest number of lawyers outside their home countries. RPL and PPP statistics are for each firm's most recent fiscal year. The "CAGR RPL" and "CAGR PPP" numbers represent each firm's compound annual growth rate in revenue per lawyer and profits per partner, respectively, over the past five years. The first number in the "Foreign Presence" column is the number of lawyers the firm has outside its home country; the second is the percentage of lawyers outside the home country. For statistics on additional firms, see americanlawyer.com.
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September 23, 2009 |

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.
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