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August 31, 2012 |

Two Financial Law Boutiques Merge

Thirty-attorney Murphy & McGonigle, which has six lawyers in New York, is acquiring Wall Street-based Krebsbach & Snyder, which has eight lawyers, all in New York.
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June 09, 2010 |

Boutiques Split Off From Neal Gerber and LeClairRyan

Recently, five attorneys formerly with Chicago's Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg announced their new firm, Chicago Law Partners, and 15 lawyers from LeClairRyan broke away to form Murphy & McGonigle. Both firms cite the ability to charge clients less as one factor in the moves. "We believe we've created a new model that allows us to manage our overhead rigorously," says Murphy & McGonigle's James Murphy. "Under this model, our attorneys will be freed of bureaucracy because we are outsourcing non-core functions."
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June 04, 2010 |

Boutiques split off from Neal Gerber and LeClairRyan

This week, as five attorneys formerly with Chicago's Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg announced their new firm Chicago Law Partners, 15 lawyers from Virginia-based LeClairRyan broke away to form Murphy & McGonigle. Both new firms cited the opportunity to charge clients less as one reason for the new ventures.
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December 08, 2010 |

Marketplace

Murphy & McGonigle, a law firm specializing in commercial litigation, has signed a five-year lease at 60 E. 42nd St. Also, WJB Capital Group Inc., a privately held broker-dealer and a member of the New York Stock Exchange, will relocate its office from 60 Broad St. to 909 Third Ave.
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January 13, 2012 |

Clear Path to Pursuing Common Law Securities Claims Not 'Assured'

James Goldfarb and Hannah Berkowitz, partners in Murphy & McGonigle, write that despite a recent Court of Appeals ruling, significant substantive and procedural protections embedded in New York and federal law will continue to pose formidable challenges to investors and other securities market participants seeking common law relief for securities-related wrongs.
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February 29, 2012 |

1st Department Adopts 'Zubulake' on Bearing Costs in Discovery

The cost of finding and producing both electronically stored information and physical documents must initially fall on the party responding to a discovery request, though courts may shift that cost at their discretion, a unanimous First Department panel has ruled.
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March 05, 2012 |

N.Y. Panel Adopts 'Zubulake' on Bearing Costs in Discovery

A decision by New York's Appellate Division, 1st Department, on cost-shifting is its second this year adopting e-discovery standards set forth by Judge Shira Scheindlin in Zubulake.
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June 13, 2011 |

Personal Notes on Lawyers

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July 02, 2010 |

2nd Circuit Faults Judge's Explanation to Jury of 'Conscious Avoidance'

The 2nd Circuit has vacated the conviction of a former high-level executive with Royal Ahold and ordered a new trial. Mark P. Kaiser was convicted of making fraudulent misrepresentations about the financial condition of U.S. Foodservice, which was acquired by Royal Ahold. The circuit said the trial judge erred in a jury instruction on the law of conscious avoidance and improperly admitted a hearsay statement by U.S. Foodservice's general counsel, thus requiring that Kaiser's conviction be vacated.
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