Jan Wolfe

January 09, 2014 | The American Lawyer

The government's $384 million settlement and guilty plea from Alcoa is something of a vindication for a Bahraini aluminum giant and its lawyers at Akin Gump, who beat prosecutors to the punch with a lawsuit over the same conduct—and won a hefty settlement of their own in 2012.

By Jan Wolfe

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January 09, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Medical device maker CareFusion, represented by Jones Day, agreed to pay $40 million to resolve civil claims by the U.S. government that it used unlawful marketing and kickbacks to promote its products.

By Jan Wolfe

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January 07, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Drafters of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 reunited this week to file an amicus brief in Halliburton v. Erica P. John Fund Inc., one of the biggest threats to securities class actions ever to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Jan Wolfe

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January 06, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Goodwin Procter's Richard Strassberg managed to keep at least a few bits of unfavorable evidence about SAC Capital's Mathew Martoma from ever reaching a jury.

By Jan Wolfe

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January 06, 2014 | The American Lawyer

HTC Corp. and its lawyers at Perkins Coie won a big ruling on Monday in a transatlantic fight with the German company IPCom Gmbh, which has been called Europe's first "patent troll."

By Jan Wolfe

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January 06, 2014 | The Recorder

By Jan Wolfe

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January 03, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Newly released figures support the notion that General Electric Co. and Citigroup Inc. were smart to be the first to settle claims that they duped Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into buying toxic securities.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

January 03, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Newly released figures support the notion that General Electric Co. and Citigroup Inc. were smart to be the first to settle claims that they duped Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into buying toxic securities.

By Jan Wolfe

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January 03, 2014 | The American Lawyer

With a trial date nearing, Intellectual Ventures has cleared a major hurdle in a smartphone patent case it brought against Google Inc. subsidiary Motorola Mobility Inc.

By Jan Wolfe

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January 03, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Eastern District Judge Brian Cogan credited the plaintiffs firms for the "high quality" of their work, but determined that all of the lawyers costs and a good chunk of their fees had already been covered by earlier settlements with codefendants.

By Jan Wolfe

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