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April 27, 2010 |

Denationalize Housing Finance

Financial firms have properly been pilloried for their role in bringing on the financial tsunami, but at least they're getting another regulatory look. Lurking beneath the financial, legal and media surface is another ongoing saga: government pouring torrents of money into our effectively nationalized housing markets.
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April 16, 2012 |

When It Comes to Billing, Latest Rate Report Shows the Rich Keep Getting Richer

A review of $7.6 billion in legal fees billed over a five-year period reveals, among other things, that the best-paid lawyers are the quickest to raise rates, that deep ties to a law firm can mean bigger bills for a client, and that using first-year associates can add up to 20 percent to the cost of a single legal matter.
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April 19, 2010 |

Firm Believer: Baron & Budd Fires Back At Lawyer in Battle Over Alleged Misrepresentations

A Dallas County jury began hearing testimony in a suit in which a former Baron & Budd lawyer alleges Russell Budd, a founder of the well-known asbestos litigation firm, made negligent and fraudulent misrepresentations to induce him to join the firm in May 2006. Jim Hartnett Jr. (pictured, left) represents plaintiff Gary Cruciani.
10 minute read
April 21, 2010 |

Former Baron & Budd Lawyer's Battle With Firm Goes to Trial

In what's shaping up to be a bruising trial, a Dallas County jury began hearing testimony last week in a suit in which former Baron & Budd lawyer Gary Cruciani alleges Russell Budd, a founder of the well-known asbestos litigation firm, made negligent and fraudulent misrepresentations about pay and other issues to induce him to join the firm in May 2006. But the firm, which is also a defendant, alleges in counterclaims that Cruciani breached a contract with the firm and "acted inappropriately" toward a junior lawyer.
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Trial Starts in Multibillion-Dollar Blame Game over Gulf Oil Spill
Publication Date: 2013-02-25
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An army of lawyers for BP, Transocean, the DOJ and others began staking out their positions at trial on Monday in New Orleans, nearly three years after the catastrophic spill that fouled the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding coastlines.

April 26, 2010 |

Denationalize housing finance

Mortgages based on phony standards threaten to sink most housing markets.
5 minute read
September 07, 2009 |

Build we must

Profile of Ricardo Jose Nu�ez, senior VP, general counsel and corporate secretary for HD Supply Inc.
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October 23, 2003 |

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