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March 11, 2013 |

The Bankruptcy Files: Ailing Detroit Hires Jones Day

Detroit has retained Jones Day—a firm known for handling restructuring work across the industrial Midwest, including key clients in the U.S. auto industry—as it seeks to fight the state of Michigan's decision to impose an emergency financial manager on the Motor City. Other Am Law 200 firms like Akin Gump, Kirkland & Ellis, Quarles & Brady, Reed Smith, and SNR Denton have landed roles on the latest round of noteworthy bankruptcy filings.
10 minute read
October 12, 2010 |

Circuit Overturns Vermont License Plate Restriction

A state law that prohibits vanity license plates containing religious messages violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, the Second Circuit ruled Friday. Judges Amalya L. Kearse, Reena Raggi and Debra Ann Livingston said the Vermont law was fatally flawed because it distinguished between people who sought to express secular and religious views "on the same subject."
4 minute read
December 20, 2010 |

In Post-9/11 World, Anti-Bullying Bill Carries Special Significance

New Jersey is making great strides with the Legislature's passage last month of the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act. But it is important for lawmakers, school administrators, teachers and parents to remain mindful that Arab-American, American-Muslim and Southeast-Asian students are at an especially acute risk for harassment and intimidation.
4 minute read
August 10, 2004 |

Flying Low

Airlines are increasingly using bankruptcy -- or the threat of it -- to retool for today's changing aviation climate. Every airline bankruptcy inflicts a heavy dose of pain on the companies and people whose economic lives depend on an airline's financial fortunes. Vendors are forced to absorb millions in unpaid bills. Employees who aren't laid off are asked to take pay cuts. And taxpayers may have to pony up billions to cover unfunded pension liabilities.
13 minute read
June 04, 2003 |

Latham's Ladder

Latham & Watkins was the go-to firm during the junk-bond boom of the late '80s. But the '90s found the firm in a death spiral. Something had to change, and it did. Fast-forward to 2003: Revenues have tripled and profits per partner have doubled. Behind Latham's success are partners who dug in as the firm faced disaster. And within that story may be a lesson for firms facing tough decisions about how to survive a dismal economy.
16 minute read
December 27, 2006 |

Six New Justices Named to Appellate Divisions

6 minute read
February 18, 2008 |

Joint Inspection

Whenever two large companies in a market with few players seek to merge, antitrust enforcers sit up and take notice. So Matthew Cantor and Mitchell Stoltz examine how a potential Microsoft-Yahoo merger would be reviewed.
8 minute read
February 22, 2012 |

Fiscal Sanity and the Third Branch

A state judge who nullified the portion of an increased-pension contribution law that applies to judges imagines assaults on the Constitution where none exist.
4 minute read
June 02, 2010 |

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