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Stakes Are High as Lawyers Prep for Kiobel Re-argument
Publication Date: 2012-09-26
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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.

March 29, 1999 |

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.
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August 01, 1999 |

Power

What is power? How do you know when you've got it in today's legal profession? How do top-ranking women lawyers view their jobs, lives, and young female colleagues? To find out, Corporate Counsel selected nine highly placed women lawyers and asked them to talk about life at the top.
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Sixth Circuit Certifies Whirlpool Class Action—Again
Publication Date: 2013-07-19
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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.

November 03, 2009 |

Supreme Court Rejects Certified Question From 5th Circuit in Kidnap Case

Under federal law dating back to 1802, one way for a case to wind up before the Supreme Court is for a federal appeals court to certify a question to the justices. It has never been a frequently traveled path to the high court, but it has been allowed from time to time -- though not since 1981. On Monday the justices rejected such a request by the 5th Circuit to resolve a statute-of-limitations issue that could affect prosecution of long-ago civil rights cases in the South.
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Financial Guaranty Taps Jones Day For Mortgage-Backed Securities Suits Against Ally Financial
Publication Date: 2011-11-30
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Financial Guaranty Insurance Company added to the mountain of litigation that monoline insurers have brought against financial institutions by filing three suits against Ally Financial Inc. (formerly GMAC). FGIC is relying on a firm not typically seen in the mortgage-backed securities litigation arena: Jones Day.

September 15, 2004 |

Defending Detainees

One day he's on a brief with conservative scholar Richard Epstein, the next he's challenging the Guantanamo tribunals. Neal Katyal defies easy categorization. Just seven years after a Supreme Court clerkship, the young Georgetown University law professor has already figured in many important cases. Says a former deputy attorney general who supervised Katyal at the Department of Justice: "He is already a force, and he will be recognized as a national figure in the law."
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December 15, 2005 |

The Bigger the Law Firm, the Bigger the Closet?

Law firms with the highest percentage of openly gay and lesbian attorneys are more apt to be smaller firms, with fewer than 300 attorneys, according to a new survey. Theories vary as to why, but it might be that smaller firms are just more up-front about the numbers of gays and lesbians in their workforce. A Seyfarth Shaw associate on the board of the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association says that, at a large firm, there is "an incentive to not be 'out' at work."
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N.Y. High Court Stymies Marcos Victims' Bid for Merrill Lynch Funds
Publication Date: 2012-06-26
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Survivors of former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos' "reign of terror" represented by Kohn, Swift & Graf can't reach $42 million in assets that the tyrant shifted to a New York investment account--at least not yet, New York's Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

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