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July 21, 1999 |

Power And Women

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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Michael Elkin of Winston & Strawn
Publication Date: 2011-12-22
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For years, culminating with his Ninth Circuit win against UMG Recordings this week, Elkin has relied on a safe harbor provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to fend off copyright infringement claims against his client Veoh Networks. Elkin's pioneering work has paid off for Veoh, and so far it's paying off for Google and YouTube as they defend against Viacom's $1 billion copyright suit.

Apple and Sextet of Tech Firms Lose Dismissal Bid in Employee Antitrust Class Action
Publication Date: 2012-04-19
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You don't often hear complaints about working for Apple, Google, Intel, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intuit, or Pixar. But according to plaintiffs lawyers at Lieff Cabraser, Berger & Montague, and Grant & Eisenhofer, employees at the companies were the victims of a conspiracy to suppress their salaries and keep them tied down at their jobs. And on Wednesday, a judge in San Jose ruled that the lawyers had come up with enough evidence to allow their case to move forward.

December 06, 2004 |

DLA and Piper (and Gray) Make it 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. The combined firm, which touts as its strengths litigation, corporate finance, real estate and global government affairs, boasts 2,700 attorneys in the United States, Europe and Asia.
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October 28, 2009 |

Defendants in AIG Scam Lawyer Up for Appeal

An ex-AIG employee and four former top execs at General Re convicted last year of engaging in a scam to inflate AIG's loss reserves have filed papers asking the 2nd Circuit to overturn their convictions. To increase their chances, three of them have shaken up their legal teams by adding Am Law 200 lawyers with sterling appellate resumes. The defendants are asking the circuit to toss out the convictions on several grounds, including claims that the trial judge admitted hearsay evidence and gave improper jury instructions.
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July 17, 2012 |

'Concepcion' One Year Later

In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, courts have eliminated many obstacles to enforcement of fair and effective arbitration provisions. But arbitration opponents are not giving up.
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Not Afraid to Litigate--or Negotiate: Kirkland & Ellis
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
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Kirkland & Ellis partner William Pratt led the team that represented Discover in its landmark $2.75 billion settlement with Visa and MasterCard. We talked with him about the challenges to the litigation.

April 24, 2009 |

Flash training 2010 Test: Part 2a

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February 06, 2009 |

Rolling the Dice

Some big-firm refugees, like Omair Farooqui, are finding the bad economy can be good for launching small firms.
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December 10, 2009 |

Heller Leaders Saw Failure Looming

Confidential documents from Heller's creditors show then-Chairman Matthew Larrabee and other leaders worried about the firm's "mortality" months before the collapse.
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