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April 24, 2009 |

Flash training 2010 Test: Part 2a

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August 25, 2006 |

Bar Prep Company Ordered to Pay $11 Mil. for Copying Questions

In a ruling that promises to fundamentally alter the way many American law students prepare for the bar exam, a federal judge has ruled concluded that a California company illegally copied questions from the Multistate Bar Examination for use in its bar exam preparation courses and ordered it to pay more than $11.9 million to the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
3 minute read
January 15, 2004 |

Spiegel's Catalog Of Troubles

The independent examiner report has become a modern art form.
5 minute read
August 03, 2007 |

Montgomery McCracken Acquires Investment Group

Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads has created an investment management practice by acquiring the Corsell Law Group in Philadelphia. The creation of the practice wasn't high on any management priority list, but Chairman Stephen Madva says the timing couldn't have been better: "With more and more money in private equity offerings, it could not be more ... current." Laura Corsell says leaving her three-attorney practice and its independence was difficult, but "Montgomery was almost irresistible."
5 minute read
February 14, 2005 |

Latest Merger Has Midsize Firms Pondering the Altar

It began, perhaps appropriately, at a romantic Manhattan restaurant. Mary Cranston, chair of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop, was having a get-to-know-you lunch with Stephen Huttler, managing partner of D.C.'s Shaw Pittman. The meeting was outwardly casual. "It was kind of like a first date," Huttler recalls. But behind the pleasantries were hard business realities. Last week, after 13 months of courting, the firms announced they would tie the knot. Will the merger convince other law firms to pair off?
8 minute read
September 04, 2007 |

Bankrupt Victims of Fraudulent Investment Schemes Could Be Barred From Recovery

Some of those involved with innovative and highly leveraged financial transactions will become insolvent due to investment fraud perpetrated by others. Innocent victims, who are eager to recover from all parties that participated in the fraud, may want to file a bankruptcy petition or to seek the appointment of a reciver to act on their behalf. But attorney Amy M. Tonti cautions that such victims, including creditors and investors, should first determine if the in pari delicto defense may bar recovery.
10 minute read
June 19, 2006 |

Buchanan, Klett Rooney To Merge Into Megafirm

Buchanan Ingersoll and Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling voted last Tuesday to give the go-ahead to a merger that would create a 525-lawyer national firm. Firm leaders anticipate that Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney of Philadelphia will be in the top 80 of national firms with estimated gross revenue of $265 million.
7 minute read
April 28, 2006 |

2006 Am Law 100: Two More Billion-Dollar Firms

12 minute read
January 16, 2004 |

In Handling Setoffs, Pay Attention to State Law

Limitations on setoff, which can be a valuable state law right incorporated into the Federal Bankruptcy Code, were recently addressed in two decisions by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
8 minute read
September 30, 2003 |

Kerr to Lead McCarter & English Phila. Branch

Only five months after joining the firm as a partner in a lateral hiring, litigator Alec Kerr has been named the new Philadelphia office managing partner at New Jersey-based McCarter English. He replaces Glenn Callahan, who will be leaving the firm to open his own practice with wife and fellow McCarter partner Therese Keeley in Cape May, N.J.
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