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May 04, 2000 |

Associates: Closing a Gender Generation Gap

Younger female associates are struggling to balance careers and families, but they are less likely than their male counterparts to be married or to be parents. Part of the problem, according to some of the new generation, is the example set by female partners, who are described as "barracudas" or "men in women's clothing."
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Value of Contract Attorneys Debated in Fee Request for Citigroup Class Action Settlement
Publication Date: 2013-01-25
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Kirby McInerney and shareholder activist Ted Frank continue to fight over the rate for contract attorneys who worked on on a securities class action against Citigroup. Kirby McInerney submitted a fee request for the suit's settlement that values the attorneys' time at up to $1,000 per hour; Frank says it should be around $50.

June 02, 2003 |

Class Action Against Interpublic

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Delaware Chancellor Chandler Leaving Bench for Private Sector
Publication Date: 2011-04-25
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Chancellor William Chandler III is known for decisions that gave broad deference to corporate boards, including the 2006 Disney decision and this year's Airgas ruling. Vice Chancellor Leo Strine appears to be the leading candidate to succeed him. Chandler hasn't yet identified the firm he'll join.

Lawyers Square Off Ahead of Hearing on $7 Billion Credit Card Fee Settlement
Publication Date: 2012-11-04
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Ever since Visa and MasterCard reached a $7.2 billion agreement to resolve merchant claims over credit card "swipe fees," critics have been coming out of the woodwork. Now they've formally opposed the class action settlement in court, with the objector's lawyers at Constantine Cannon warning of "serious risks" if the deal is approved.

February 09, 2007 |

Lawyer Helps Paper-Maker Bowater Merge With Former Rival Abitibi

Overseeing the legal issues of a merger that will create North America's third-largest publicly traded pulp and paper company was a lot like "herding cats," said Troutman Sanders partner William C. Smith. Smith was the lead corporate adviser to Greenville, S.C.'s Bowater on its merger agreement with Montreal's Abitibi-Consolidated. Completing a cross-border transaction of this type is tricky, says Smith, involving "disparate egos" -- not to mention that much of Abitibi's business is conducted in French.
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August 20, 2002 |

Johnson & Johnson Loses Bid to Limit Discovery in Class Bias Suit

Plaintiffs in a discrimination suit against Johnson & Johnson are entitled to companywide discovery and do not have to proceed in stages, despite defense claims that producing all the documents at once is burdensome, a federal judge in New Jersey has ruled. The suit, filed last November, alleges that Johnson & Johnson discriminated against Hispanic and black employees throughout the pharmaceutical company and its subsidiaries.
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The Global Lawyer: The 2012 Global Lawyers of the Year
Publication Date: 2012-12-27
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How to choose between a record $2 billion ICSID award and a $2 billion ICC award that's also in record terrain? We've decided to throw up our hands and pronounce a tie for the 2012 Global Lawyer of the Year. We're honoring Debevoise & Plimpton's David W. Rivkin for his ICSID win in Occidental v. Ecuador, and Shearman & Sterling's Henry Weisburg, for prevailing in The Dow Chemical Company's ICC feud with Kuwait.

June 02, 2003 |

Class Action Against Interpublic Group to Proceed

Interpublic Group of Cos., a holding company that ranks as the world's second-largest owner of advertising agencies, must defend a class action accusing it of defrauding investors, a federal judge in New York ruled Friday. The suit alleges that Interpublic issued misleading financial statements tied largely to questionable accounting practices at its flagship McCann-Erickson agency, the world's largest advertising network.
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November 04, 2004 |

Guerrilla Girls Take Copyright Dispute to Court

The attorney for a group of self-proclaimed "art-terrorists" has been disqualified in the latest chapter of a legal battle that pits the Guerrilla Girls against a splinter group in a dispute over posters, books and other property. The women use deceased female artists' names and don gorilla masks at public appearances, decrying segregation and discrimination in the art world.
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