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June 09, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Bringing the right ideas and the right fundamentals are necessary to earn trust as much confidence needs to be restored in order to return to building enterprises and making money.

By Mitchell R. Cohen

8 minute read

December 11, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

The pharmaceutical industry, a popular target for mass tort litigation, has repeatedly felt the sting of multimillion-dollar verdicts. As the recent Vioxx litigation demonstrates, one area in which the industry particularly needs to strengthen its defense position involves clinical trial protocols and implementation.

By Debra M. Perry and Mitchell Kurtz

8 minute read

June 20, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Clyde Mitchell, adjunct professor of banking law at Fordham Law School, writes that few banking experts will deny that there is too much regulatory overlap and too many regulators. However, it will no doubt take a while before anything tangible is done, particularly until there has been more experience with umbrella and functional regulation under Gramm-Leach-Bliley.

By Clyde Mitchell

13 minute read

January 12, 2007 | Law.com

A Mississippi jury has awarded $2.5 million in punitive damages to a couple who sued State Farm Fire & Casualty for denying their claim after Hurricane Katrina, a decision that could benefit hundreds of others challenging insurers for not covering billions of dollars in storm damage. The couple, who wanted State Farm to pay for their home's full insured value plus $5 million in punitive damages, claimed that a tornado during the hurricane destroyed the home. State Farm blamed all the damage on storm surge.

By Garry Mitchell

4 minute read

April 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Mitchell L. Berg and Peter E. Fisch, partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, untangle the latest serving of governmental alphabet soup and outline the principal terms of Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility ("TALF"), as it will ultimately relate to certain residential mortgage-backed securities ("RMBS") and commercial mortgage-backed securities ("CMBS"), and the Public-Private Investment Program ("PPIP").

By Mitchell L. Berg and Peter E. Fisch

13 minute read

March 03, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Nancy A. Mitchell, Jeffrey M. Rosenthal and John W. Weiss, shareholders in Greenberg Traurig, write that hedge fund investors in a company typically have at least one representative on the board of directors. When financial trouble starts, these investors are often very active in assisting the fashioning of the company's response. The good news: they often bring a lot to the table in the restructuring process. The bad news: they likely have different objectives than the rest of the parties-in-interest.

By Nancy A. Mitchell, Jeffrey M. Rosenthal and John W. Weiss

14 minute read

March 18, 2005 | Law.com

Virtually every court that has considered the matter has concluded that racist speech can create a hostile, abusive and discriminatory work environment, and that when it does so, a court can stop it. No court in recent decades has held that the First Amendment gives people the right to use speech to harass fellow workers. That is the established view supported by years of precedent. But it is not the view of Janice Rogers Brown, President Bush's nominee to the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of of Appeals.

By Mitchell Zimmerman

11 minute read

June 24, 2008 | New York Law Journal

David M. Barshay, a partner at Baker, Sanders, Barshay, Grossman, Fass, Muhlstock and Neuwirth, and Mitchell S. Lustig, an attorney associated with Nicolini, Paradise Ferretti & Sabella, write that the Court of Appeals recently granted plaintiff's cross-motion for summary judgment and denied defendant's motion for the same relief, holding a defense of fraud based upon the allegation that the services billed for were never provided is waived if not preserved in a timely denial of claim.

By David M. Barshay and Mitchell S. Lustig

14 minute read

September 14, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

Upon the initial introduction to any injury arising from a police chase, it is first necessary to undertake an intensive investigation to determine whether facts exist to support a claim, and whether the damages make prosecution of the claim economically feasible.

By Mitchell J. Makowicz and Ronald P. Goldfaden

8 minute read

April 06, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A look at the limited intellectual-property protection available for fashion design

By Cathryn A. Mitchell

8 minute read