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October 18, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Once Obscure Agency Is Picking Up the Pace of Enforcement Efforts

For decades, most companies didn't worry much about the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, an obscure regulatory backwater whose lawyers brought a few dozen enforcement actions a year. Now, the mouse is starting to roar.
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October 29, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Obituary: Stuart M. Speiser

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June 04, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Edward Bazinet v. Galina Kluge

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February 28, 2011 | New York Law Journal

'Forum Selection' or 'Forum Shopping': Framing the Divide

Gary P. Naftalis and Michael S. Oberman, partners at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, write: "Forum selection" should be an essential element in the strategy decisions made by the litigator responsible for commencing or responding to a commercial action. Yet, in assessing the available alternative forums and in weighing the likelihood of securing the preferred one, a litigator will likely encounter the strain in the case law that speaks of "forum shopping" in a pejorative manner.
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February 07, 2013 | New York Law Journal

City Does Not Have to Give Handgun Data to New York Times, Panel Rules

New York City does not have to turn over a database showing the names and addresses of residents with handgun permits in response to a Freedom of Information Law request, a unanimous First Department panel has ruled, reversing a lower court.
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March 07, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Firms See Nanotechnology As No Small Innovation

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November 23, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Panel Recommends Removal for Blackburne

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July 17, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Attorneys Hit With Sanctions Over Meritless Suit Against Producer

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July 22, 2008 | New York Law Journal

'Sprint v. APCC': Scope of Federal Standing Expands

Sander Bak, a partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, and Mia Korot, an associate at the firm, write that the U.S. Supreme Court held last month that assignees of legal claims for money owed have standing to pursue those claims in federal court, even when the assignees were to remit the proceeds of the litigation to the assignors. The import of the decision, they say, is that it permits parties that have suffered no actual injury and who have no financial stake in the outcome of the litigation to contract into lawsuits and bring suit in federal court.
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September 21, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Employee Benefits Law

Howard S. Denburg, an attorney practicing in New York City, reviews the new U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 84-14 amendments, which eliminate the one-year look-back rule, modify the application of the exemption in the case of a commingled investment fund, clarify the definition of a qualified plan asset manager (QPAM), change the rules on when a QPAM is treated as related to a party in interest and redefine what is an affiliate.
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