Anthony Lin

February 17, 2006 | Law.com

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison will pay part of a $180 million settlement of claims arising from the bankruptcy of Boston Chicken Inc. Also participating in the settlement are Merrill Lynch & Co., Deutsche Bank Securities and Morgan Stanley & Co. A bankruptcy trustee sued Paul Weiss and the banks along with other advisers that he alleged took part in accounting and securities fraud that he claimed cost investors in the fast-food chain over $1 billion. Paul Weiss and the banks deny any wrongdoing.

By Anthony Lin

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March 09, 2004 | Law.com

By Anthony Lin

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December 06, 2005 | Law.com

A Manhattan judge has approved an unusual settlement that will clear the way for a vote today on the merger of the New York Stock Exchange with Archipelago Holdings Inc., a competing electronic exchange. The combination, which is expected to be approved by NYSE seatholders, will convert the world's largest stock market from a nonprofit entity into a public corporation. Several dissenting seatholders had objected, charging that the deal overvalues Archipelago.

By Anthony Lin

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December 06, 2005 | New York Law Journal

By Anthony Lin

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January 12, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Washington, D.C.'s Howrey has added three veteran litigation partners in New York.

By Anthony Lin ALM

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October 29, 2003 | Law.com

Sidley Austin Brown & Wood has fired the controversial head of its tax shelter practice for breaches of fiduciary duty and violations of the firm's partnership agreement. The dismissed partner, R.J. Ruble, who worked in the New York office of the Chicago-based firm, was among the nation's leading providers of opinion letters blessing tax shelters for corporations and wealthy individuals, some of whom have since sued the firm.

By Anthony Lin

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December 10, 2007 | National Law Journal

Jones Day has appointed a new partner-in-charge of its New York office. Labor and employment lawyer Willis J. Goldsmith will head the firm's Manhattan office beginning Jan. 1, following in the footsteps of Dennis W. LaBarre, who has led the office since it opened in 1986. The 300-lawyer New York location became Jones Day's largest office in 2004, after the firm acquired most of the lawyers from now-defunct intellectual property boutique Pennie & Edmonds.

By Anthony Lin

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May 17, 2006 | National Law Journal

The two Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman partners at the center of a federal probe into whether class action plaintiffs represented by the firm received kickbacks based on legal fees have taken leaves of absence. The firm announced late Monday night the leaves taken by David Bershad and Steven Schulman, praising both for their firm contributions. It has been reported for months that Schulman and Bershad face imminent indictments in the six-year kickback probe by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.

By Anthony Lin and Justin Scheck

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October 23, 2006 | National Law Journal

The National Benevolent Association, a church group that sued Weil, Gotshal & Manges last fall for allegedly steering it into a "disastrous" bankruptcy, is accusing the firm of withholding from discovery e-mail correspondence of the partner who led the Chapter 11 filing. To support its contention, the nonprofit pointed to a variance from the number of pages of e-mails it had received from other individuals in the case -- a discrepancy the firm attributes to partners' document archiving and retention habits.

By Anthony Lin

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August 21, 2008 | The Recorder

The Second Circuit denies the firm's request in a Nortel class action settlement.

By Anthony Lin

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