Marcia Coyle

March 23, 2007 | Law.com

A case to be argued next week in the Supreme Court claims that purchasers in IPOs paid inflated, prearranged prices that generating billions of dollars in illegal profits.

By Marcia Coyle

8 minute read

March 17, 2010 | National Law Journal

A week after Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki announced a "fast track" proposal for Vietnam veterans' Agent Orange claims, five veterans service organizations sued the agency on Tuesday for missing deadlines for publishing regulations to implement newly expanded Agent Orange benefits.

By Marcia Coyle

4 minute read

August 05, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a remarkable feat, by the end of April arguments in the 2008-09 term, two veteran U.S. Supreme Court advocates each had argued six cases, and attorneys from just three firms and one law school clinic stood at the podium in nearly 35 percent of the term's 78 argued cases.

By Marcia Coyle

4 minute read

February 22, 2007 | Law.com

A crack dealer and a decorated military veteran who lied to a grand jury went before the U.S. Supreme Court this week to test the boundaries of federal judges' sentencing discretion in a world where the Federal Sentencing Guidelines are no longer mandatory. With Claiborne v. U.S. and Rita v. U.S., the justices have their first opportunity to tell trial and appellate judges how much weight to give the now-advisory guidelines whose mandatory nature the high court in 2005 found invalid.

By Marcia Coyle

9 minute read

February 03, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Marcia Coyle

5 minute read

March 24, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Douglas Ochs Adler, lead counsel for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, has joined Chicago's Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz as a member of the firm's equipment finance group in its Washington office. At the Export-Import Bank, Adler provided legal advice to loan officers in the financing of large aircraft as well as complex project finance transactions and was also instrumental in the development of derivative products for use in a wide range of financing structures.

By Marcia Coyle

2 minute read

July 21, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

The soon-to-be-signed financial reform package creates a new whistleblower program with huge potential cash rewards for individuals who hand over info about violations to the SEC. Some corporate defense lawyers are calling it a 'bounty' reward program.

By Marcia Coyle

4 minute read

March 27, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a case alleging what one federal appellate court described as an epic Wall Street conspiracy, the nation's highest court soon will examine the scope of immunity from antitrust claims when federal securities regulations and federal antitrust law collide.

By Marcia Coyle ALM

8 minute read

June 24, 2010 | Law.com

Twenty-nine former Supreme Court clerks who served with nominee Elena Kagan during the 1987-88 Court term added their voices Wednesday to the White House's roll-out of support for Kagan's confirmation. In a conference call with members of the press, three of the former clerks -- Harry Litman, former clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall; Teresa Wynn Roseborough, former clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens, and Peter Keisler, former clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy -- stressed Kagan's intelligence, open-mindedness and fairness.

By Marcia Coyle

4 minute read

March 10, 2006 | Law.com

Antitrust litigators and scholars claim the high court's decisions in two cases of alleged anti-competitive practices are efforts to "catch up" with current economic thinking and "clean up" a lower court ruling that put at risk a widely used business arrangement.

By Marcia Coyle

10 minute read