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October 07, 2009 |

Star Turn for Some Hollywood Newcomers

When Summit Entertainment needed an attorney to help promote its new vampire movie, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," general counsel David Friedman turned to an old colleague from his former Paramount Pictures job. That lawyer, Nancy Derwin-Weiss, had moved to Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon and helped it break through the barriers that have frustrated more than one East Coast firm's ambition to go Hollywood. And at least three other firms from outside California are using similar tactics to get into entertainment law.
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Mark Mendelsohn of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Publication Date: 2010-04-15
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At the Justice Department, Mendelsohn pushed to make Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases a priority. In so doing, he generating a boom in demand for FCPA defense lawyers. Now he--and his new firm--are poised to benefit from his entry into the market he created.

March 31, 2005 |

Court Expands Workers' Rights

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday opened the door for older workers to bring age discrimination claims against their employers based on disparate impact rather than discriminatory intent. But the court also gave employers the tools to defend against the new type of claims. Advocates for older workers, including the AARP, hailed the 5-3 decision in Smith v. City of Jackson, Miss., as a landmark victory because it is often hard to prove discriminatory intent on the part of employers.
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December 08, 2009 |

Subway Founder Has a $5 Billion Lawsuit on His Plate

The sandwich maker's president Fred DeLuca has been socked with a multibillion-dollar lawsuit for allegedly stealing his business partner's dream to build the first eco-sustainable city in Florida.
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September 10, 2002 |

Paralegals Are Team Members

At some point during the first few months at your firm, a senior attorney will tell you to "ask the legal assistant." Legal assistants, or paralegals, are trained professionals who do work of a legal nature under attorney supervision -- and who, at this point, may know more about your job than you do. It's to your advantage to see them as valued team members: know who they are, what they do, and how you can work together.
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October 01, 2009 |

National Rankings: Season of Uncertainty

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May 16, 2002 |

Bar Drafts Loan Forgiveness Propsal

BY THE end of the month, members of the New York State Bar Association Executive Committee will have in their hands a draft proposal that would offer law school debt relief to young attorneys in return for devoting at least part of their careers to government or public interest law.
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February 02, 2000 |

Judge Bags Clorox TV Ads

The Clorox Company, maker of Glad Bags, went too far when it ran television ads showing a competitor's Slide-Loc food storage bags couldn't be trusted to hold water. A federal judge in New York ruled the ads exaggerated the leakage rate of the Slide-Loc bag and issued an order blocking the ads. In the ads, a Slide-Loc bag filled with water and a goldfish is turned upside down, putting the goldfish in jeopardy as the water quickly leaks out.
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September 28, 2006 |

2nd Circuit Rejects Malpractice Suit Against Plaintiffs Firms

The 2nd Circuit has ruled that two prominent plaintiffs firms aren't liable to former clients for failing to sue Arthur Andersen in a securities fraud suit stemming from the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history. Counsel for Kirby, McInerney & Squire and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman noted the irony of class action firms being sued in a class action. "They're usually accused of suing every deep pocket in sight," Bertrand Sellier said. "Here they're exercising restraint and they get sued for it."
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Morrison and Racketeering: With Federal Courts Bouncing RICO Claims by Foreign Plaintiffs, Is State Court an Alternative?
Publication Date: 2011-03-09
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As Norex, the first plaintiff whose RICO case was dismissed on Morrison grounds, refashions its lurid allegations as a New York state case, a Brooklyn federal judge has cited Morrison in his dismissal of a similarly provocative RICO case against RJR.

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