Anthony Lin

October 22, 2006 | Daily Report Online

A BRONX, N.Y., judge has sanctioned a personal injury lawyer and his firm $15,000 over their attempts to keep a $574,000 attorney fee for themselves, despite a written agreement to divide the fee equally with out-of-state co-counsel. The parents of Marek Leskinen, a brain-damaged infant, retained Maryland lawyer Dov Apfel in 1997 to represent them in a medical malpractice suit against Lawrence Hospital in the Bronx.

By Anthony Lin

4 minute read

May 23, 2013 | The American Lawyer

The court cited discovery failures in throwing out an earlier decision finding that an individual investor owed a bank $5 million for losses incurred in a structured financial product.

By Anthony Lin

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May 03, 2004 | National Law Journal

If the law is becoming more of a business, should law schools become more like business schools?

By Anthony LinAmerican Lawyer Media News Service

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July 09, 2008 | National Law Journal

One of White & Case's top partners has left to become co-head of the financial services practice at Arnold & Porter. Kevin F. Barnard, the former head of White & Case's bank advisory practice and a member of its management board, will join the New York office of Washington, D.C.'s Arnold & Porter, along with another former White & Case banking partner, Alan W. Avery. Arnold & Porter is hoping the arrivals of Barnard and Avery will contribute to the growth of its 100-lawyer New York office.

By Anthony Lin

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August 16, 2004 | National Law Journal

In a few years' time, Reed Smith hopes to be the first major law firm staffed entirely by alumni of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of business.

By Anthony Lin

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August 13, 2007 | National Law Journal

A National Association of Securities Dealers arbitration panel was sharply rebuked last week for trying to restrict an award of attorney fees to a successful age discrimination claimant.

By Anthony Lin

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September 18, 2008 | National Law Journal

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has been named counsel to the creditors' committee in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. The representation of the committee, which comprises the largest unsecured institutional creditors, is usually the most sought-after assignment in a major bankruptcy apart from that of debtor's counsel. Lehman Brothers is being represented by Weil, Gotshal & Manges, which filed the investment bank's Chapter 11 petition Monday.

By Anthony Lin

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June 02, 2006 | National Law Journal

New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi has announced he will ask Judge William H. Pauley to replace indicted class action firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman as lead counsel in a shareholder suit against German pharmaceutical giant Bayer.

By Anthony Lin/New York Law Journal

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May 08, 2006 | National Law Journal

The rich mostly got richer in 2005, as more of the nation's highest-grossing law firms pushed past the $1 million and $2 million marks in terms of profits per partner.

By Anthony Lin/New York Law Journal

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February 27, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A senior in-house lawyer at the New York Life Insurance Co. has resigned after the company discovered in recent weeks that he had never been licensed to practice law.

By ANTHONY LIN

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