Ross Todd

June 29, 2009 | Legaltech News

The Charlotte Observer reported earlier this week that e-discovery firm DiscoverReady plans to hire about 100 lawyers in the Queen City of North Carolina. These are contract positions to perform document review, but in this economy 100 new legal jobs of any kind is news.

By Ross Todd

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September 22, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Months after hitting Intel with a record $1.45 billion fine for limiting competition with rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, the European Commission has finally issued a public version of its decision.

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September 16, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Representing the Lehman estate, Jones Day claims Barclays and certain Lehman execs snookered Judge James Peck into approving last year's fire sale of the investment bank's crown-jewel brokerage business. And they're not mincing words in asking him to modify the court order approving the sale. The judge, they say, was offered a record that was "inaccurate due to mistakes, inadvertence, or misrepresentations to the court."

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August 12, 2009 | The American Lawyer

A class of 200,000 people alleged that the government wrongly denied them benefits because they shared names with suspects for whom arrest warrants had been issued. On Tuesday a San Francisco federal district court judge approved a deal that will restore $500 million in benefits to class members, who were represented by Munger Tolles and a coalition of public interest groups.

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June 23, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Will newly-proposed changes to the Madoff liquidation trustee's settlement with two Fairfield funds appease a group of investors who balked at the deal? We're not holding our breath.

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August 04, 2009 | The American Lawyer

The Associated Press reports that Merck reached an $80 million settlement with 190 third-party payers, including health insurers and union health funds, who had paid for Vioxx prescriptions.

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September 24, 2009 | The American Lawyer

A federal district court judge in Indianapolis on Wednesday blocked Teva Pharmaceuticals from selling a generic version of Evista, Eli Lilly's osteoporosis drug that generated $1.08 billion in global sales last year.

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April 01, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

A high-profile fair use dispute veers into something more like low comedy.

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July 29, 2009 | The American Lawyer

He's 86 years old, but the Viacom chairman is still plenty feisty, by the evidence of his two hours of testimony in a suit in which his nephew claims Redstone cheated him out of shares in the family business. We especially enjoyed his sniffy rejoinder to a question about whether he'd drafted a particular document. Nah, said the octogenarian. Document drafting is for mere lawyers!

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October 08, 2010 | The American Lawyer

In a state where real estate horror stories are almost as ubiquitous as sunshine, the defense may face an uphill battle to find sympathetic jurors. One of its tactics: attack the plaintiffs lawyers.

By Ross Todd

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