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September 19, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Douglas Lancet

Holocaust survivor Rosalie Kent puts Douglas Lancet in the same league as the friend who harbored her in 1943 after she escaped from a Jewish ghetto and slave labor. Concentration camp refugee Elizabeth Grosinger said Mr. Lancet successfully fought to get her the compensation she was due for forced labor she performed for the Nazis.
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October 06, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Legal Marketing

Joy Newton Martini, U.S. Chief Marketing Officer of Lovells, writes that with lateral movement, firm mergers and dissolutions continuing at a dizzying pace, clients are finding it more and more difficult to articulate differences between firms. Identifying that "certain something" that sets a firm apart is absolutely critical to long term success.
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March 21, 2011 | New York Law Journal

At the Criminal Defense Bar

Norman C. Simon, Brendan M. Schulman and Samantha V. Ettari of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel discuss recent decisions that indicate that, despite the narrower scope of pretrial criminal discovery, the government may well be held to the same high standards of preservation and production of electronically stored information as civil litigants.
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March 03, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Sarbanes Deadline Is No Nightmare After All

March 16 may not be such a nightmare after all. That's the date when the nation's biggest companies have to complete an audit of their internal controls � yet another chore courtesy of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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July 08, 2002 | New York Law Journal

Biotech Firm Fails to Win Dismissal Of Suit Alleging Insider Trading

MINEOLA A shareholder of a local biotech firm has convinced a judge that it would have been futile to make a demand on the board of directors before filing a derivative action for alleged insider trading against the company and its financial advisers.
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June 10, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Professional Liability

Norman B. Arnoff, a New York City practitioner, and Sue C. Jacobs, a member of Goodman & Jacobs, write that civil litigation lawyers, whether representing plaintiffs or defendants, if they are to represent multiple clients, always need to have a heightened consciousness of actual and potential conflicts and the Ethical Considerations and Disciplinary Rules that provide the intelligent guidance essential to avoid serious professional problems.
25 minute read
March 30, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Regulatory Reform

In this Special Section from the New York Law Journal: "The Nuances of Securities Reform," "Bank Supervision: It Goes Hand in Hand With Regulation" and "There's Something About Hedge Funds."
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April 03, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Second Circuit Review

Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp, partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, write that in its recent decision in Rolon v. Henneman, the Second Circuit ruled for the first time that testifying witnesses in arbitration proceedings are entitled to absolute immunity for their testimony, indicating that while some witnesses may abuse the protection to achieve their own ends, that is a necessary risk, ameliorated by the presence of procedural safeguards.
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August 20, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Bias Suit Proceeds Despite Employer's Internal Review Procedures

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