Ross Todd

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.

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April 01, 2010 | The American Lawyer

Bar Talk couldn't turn away from the Toyota Motor Corporation congressional hearings.

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October 31, 2011 | The American Lawyer

It may be too early to write the final obituary for Righthaven LLC, the copyright holding company run by Dickinson Wright partner Steven Gibson, but we're sharpening our pencils.

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August 04, 2009 | The American Lawyer

It only took seven years, but on Tuesday the SEC finally took General Electric Company to task for reporting materially false results in financial statements in 2002 and 2003. The company agreed to pay $50 million to settle SEC allegations that it misled investors. But it wrote a much bigger check to the lawyers and accountants it hired to investigate the allegations: roughly $200 million.

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September 16, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

Holiday weeks are traditionally slow for news. So with both Labor Day and Rosh Hashanah landing on the calendar last week, The Am Law Daily was surprised by a deluge of press releases from law firms touting new partner hires. In a typical week, we receive about 20 such announcements at [email protected]. Last week we got close to 40.

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June 25, 2009 | The American Lawyer

As national coordinating counsel for the recording industry in its fight against illegal downloading, Reynolds won a verdict last Friday that was truly shocking: $1.92 million against a Minnesota mother of four who was found to have violated record company copyrights on 24 songs. Even one of the recording artists whose song was illegally downloaded has disavowed the verdict, but Reynolds makes no apologies.

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August 14, 2009 | The American Lawyer

A federal judge in Riverside, Calif., ruled Wednesday that the heirs of Superman cocreator Jerry Siegel are co-owners of copyrights to the first two weeks of Superman daily newspaper strips and other early Superman material. The ruling is the latest in an ongoing dispute between the heirs and DC Comics and Warner Brothers.

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July 08, 2011 | The American Lawyer

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June 09, 2011 | The American Lawyer

The state's top court ruled that Latin America's largest mobile phone carrier was shielded from claims that it duped investors into selling their shares in an Ecuadorian subsidiary.

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September 23, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Drugmaker Wyeth on Wednesday sued regulators at the Food and Drug Administration in an attempt to block the sale of a recently approved generic version of its intravenous antibiotic Zosyn.

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