Ross Todd

April 01, 2006 | Law.com

The impending demolition of the Stardust Hotel and Casino is good news for one young Las Vegas in-house lawyer.

By Ross Todd

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April 26, 2011 | Daily Business Review

An attorney representing himself in a suit against his former law firm claims he was the victim of discrimination and retaliation after he was passed over for assignments by partners who preferred to give work to nonminorities.

By Ross Todd

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August 14, 2009 | The American Lawyer

The Ninth Circuit, in its first examination of the whistle-blower protections under Sarbanes-Oxley, revived the lawsuit of two in-house attorneys who'd sued their former employer for wrongful termination. The court ruled that the lawyers, who claimed they were fired in retaliation for raising fraud claims, did not have to prove fraud occurred at their company. Rather, they only needed to demonstrate that they believed fraud occurred.

By Ross Todd

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April 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

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June 03, 2010 | Law.com

Baker & McKenzie has elected Sao Paulo partner Eduardo Leite the next chairman of the firm's eight-person executive committee. Leite has served as managing partner of the firm's four offices in Brazil since 2003. He heads the firm's global energy, mining and infrastructure practice group. "Given our brand, our people and our clients expect our leadership to be global," says current chairman John Conroy, Jr. "There's some additional excitement because we've never had a chair out of Latin America," Conroy says.

By Ross Todd

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January 10, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Tuesday's ruling for CompuCredit in a battle with Visa card holders comes less than eight months after the high court emphasized the power of the Federal Arbitration Act in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, giving companies a big edge in compelling plaintiffs to arbitrate would-be class claims.

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September 24, 2009 | Law.com

Drugmaker Wyeth on Wednesday sued regulators at the FDA in an attempt to block the sale of a recently approved generic version of its intravenous antibiotic Zosyn. In the complaint filed in D.C. federal court by Wyeth's lawyers at Sidley Austin, the company alleges that the generic is not an equivalent product and could harm critically ill patients. The complaint also names as defendants the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary of HHS Kathleen Sebelius and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.

By Ross Todd

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June 10, 2011 | The American Lawyer

A federal judge in Arizona refused to dismiss claims that Greenberg helped to facilitate a $200 million fraud allegedly run by its former client, Mortgages Ltd.

By Ross Todd

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April 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Digging for dollars.

By Ross Todd

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September 15, 2009 | The American Lawyer

In opening arguments in Manhattan federal district court, lawyers for Bank of America and two Cayman Islands companies the bank used to invest in a Parmalat subsidiary clashed over what the bank knew and when.

By Ross Todd

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