Ross Todd

May 10, 2010 | Law.com

The legal sector shed 1,100 positions in April, according to the latest employment report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It marked the second month in a row of four-digit losses for that group. Since April of last year, the legal sector has lost a total of roughly 28,000 jobs. The latest legal job figures contrast with the overall addition of 290,000 jobs to the U.S. economy last month.

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July 22, 2009 | The American Lawyer

In the latest enormous False Claims Act deal, the federal government racked up more than a half-billion dollars to resolve allegations that the city and state of New York overcharged Medicaid for speech therapy, transportation, and other services. We figured the whistle-blower's lawyer would be celebrating a whopper of a pay day. But it looks like we were wrong.

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July 22, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

The settlement resolves all pending litigation between the carmaker and Paice LLC.

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August 06, 2009 | The American Lawyer

On Tuesday a federal jury handed down a rare plaintiffs victory in a trial involving claims under the Torture Victims Protection Act and the Alien Tort Claims Act. After a two-day trial, a jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., awarded Nayeem Mehtab Chowdhury $1.5 million in actual damages and $250,000 in punitives in a case stemming from his torture at the hands of the Rapid Action Battalion in Bangladesh.

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July 08, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

Small firms acquisitions were the driver in an active second quarter of law firm mergers and acquisitions, according to an Altman Weil MergerLine report.

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February 22, 2011 | The American Lawyer

The firm's total revenue grew by 1.5 percent, while profits per partner increased by 6 percent to $1.99 million.

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August 03, 2009 | The American Lawyer

When we told you at the beginning of the year that there was no practice area hotter than FCPA defense, we weren't thinking of the bizarre assortment of defendants we've seen in the three FCPA cases to come to trial this year: a handbag mogul, an ex-congressman, and, starting Tuesday, a pair of movie producers accused of bribing officials in Thailand. It's a strange world, folks.

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April 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

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May 29, 2008 | The Recorder

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal laid off lawyers and non-legal staff firmwide; the litigation and real estate departments were hit the hardest.

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August 03, 2009 | Law.com

On Thursday, Pfizer announced a $75 million settlement with Nigeria's Kano state government to resolve claims that the pharmaceutical company was responsible for the death or disabling of dozens of children in a 1996 clinical study of the Pfizer antibiotic Trovan. The state -- which initially sought more than $5 billion -- agreed to drop all civil and criminal charges against Pfizer. But Pfizer hasn't bought peace in all of the litigation stemming from the Trovan study.

By Ross Todd

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