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Litigators Won't Rule in the Valley
In the Silicon Valley, the top firm lawyers are not necessarily litigators, and the peers of corporate counsel are not other top lawyers. They are venture capitalists and market watchers who point the way to the next waves of success. The winners among Valley law firms will be those constantly at work cultivating the garden, not those simply plucking ripe fruit from the tree.Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan breached one more line of defense this week in the Federal Housing Finance Agency's campaign against the banks at the heart of the subprime crisis.
In re: Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation
Rehearing of IPO Class Action Issue Denied; No Reason to Revise Standard for Class CertificationMassachusetts Mutual and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel crossed a major hurdle on Tuesday in a crush of litigation against banks that underwrote residential mortgage backed-securities. A federal judge in Boston largely denied motions to dismiss nine separate suits that Quinn Emanuel filed against Credit Suisse, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, WaMu Inc., and Goldman Sachs.
Midlevel Associates Survey: Firms Improve, but Complaints Continue
With the results of The American Lawyer's 2006 midlevel associates survey comes the realization that not necessarily every associate aims for partnership. But one thing that has stayed the same is the level of frustration. And though the lack of communication between associates and partners continues to be a major gripe, at least one firm has taken heed of last year's poor survey score to make improvements. Plus: Take a look at how smaller and midsize boutiques rank against Am Law 100 and 200 firms.They say you can't beat the house. In litigation sparked by the collapse of the giant Fontainebleau casino project on the Las Vegas strip, neither the project's borrowers or a group of term lenders have been able to beat the banks.
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