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Continental's Lifeline Spun by Lawyers
As well as anyone, H. Rodgin Cohen knows that history has a way of topping itself. In 1974, as a 30-year-old associate at New York's Sullivan & Cromwell, the wiry young Harvard graduate worked overtime to help devise a plan to protect the depositors of Franklin National Bank in what was then the nation's largest post-World War II bank failure. Ten years later to the day, Cohen found himself up to the elbow in a similar task: salvaging the $41 billion Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, a money center bank that was nearly 12 times the size of the Long Island-based Franklin. As Continental's outside counsel, Cohen would play the central role in devising the largest bank bailout in U.S. history. That rescue was finally completed last week after the bank's shareholders overwhelmingly voted to approve the plan.Profile: A Litigator Takes the Helm At Symbol
Despite predictions in these pages that Peter lieb was likely to get the GC spot at International Paper Company [The Shortlist, October 2002], the associate GC did not get the top legal job when William Lytton went to Tyco International, Ltd., last year. IP decided to look outside for Lytton's replacement-and Lieb moved up into the GC ranks by going to Symbol Technologies, Inc. Like his former boss, Lieb, 47, has joined a company with very public legal problems. Symbol, the New York- based manufacturer of bLocal Lateral Moves Take Significant Jump in 2005
Only halfway through this calendar year, The Legal has already tracked more lateral partner moves in Philadelphia than during all of 2004.Clinton calls for legal protections for honest mortgage lenders
PHILADELPHIA AP - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed several remedies to the nation's home mortgage problems Monday, including one tool more often associated with Republicans than Democrats.The New York senator proposed greater protections for lenders from possible lawsuits by investors, a variation of so-called tort reform.Cole Porter's Birthday Gets a Boost From Nixon Peabody Lawyers
June 9 would have been the late Cole Porter's 116th birthday, and Nixon Peabody partners Andrew Potts and Randall Kelly, for their fifth year, did their best to throw a party Porter would have adored. The frivolities were for a good purpose: to drum up funds to help restore the Peru, Ind., home where Porter was born and wrote his first lyrics. "I love Cole Porter music, and I wanted to introduce more people to Cole Porter music," says Potts, who notes that Porter briefly attended Harvard Law School.View more book results for the query "White Case"
Post & Schell Adds Two Lateral Partners
Post & Schell has continued its attempts to diversify beyond insurance defense litigation by adding two more lateral partners from local law firms.U.S. companies lobby for tax holiday on offshore earnings
U.S. companies with overseas operation have been lobbying for a tax holiday on offshore earnings, but they're already finding plenty of ways to avoid taxes.State AI Legislation Is on the Move in 2024
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