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June 01, 2006 | Law.com

At 94, Attorney David Ginsburg Looks Back at a Life Less Ordinary

David Ginsburg has pushed the buttons of presidents, Supreme Court justices, clients and peers. During his 70-year career, he's worked in the White House during the Great Depression, helped shape the rhetoric of the civil rights era and built a 74-lawyer law firm. Now, at age 94 and putting in 40-hour workweeks as of counsel at Powell Goldstein in Washington, D.C., Ginsburg shares his thoughts on the demise of general practice firms, the importance of writing skills and his affection for midsize firms.
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May 23, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Disbarred attorney says Wall Street envy led him to crime

Brien Santarlas was disbarred after he pleaded guilty to insider trading charges, testified that envy of Wall Street salaries led him to a role in what became the biggest hedge fund insider trading case in history.
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July 22, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Public Interest Projects

For the past six years, pro bono lawyers at Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York have worked on behalf of a mentally retarded client on Georgia's death row who was convicted of a double homicide and robbery. On Wednesday, the Davis Polk team � associates Hayward H. Smith and Andrew B. Dean, partner James W.B. Benkard and senior counsel Ogden N. Lewis � prevailed in a habeas petition before the Superior Court of Butts County, winning a new trial for Larry Jenkins and sparing his life.
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'Kasowitz Letter' Still MIA in Facebook Ownership Case
Publication Date: 2012-07-23
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For weeks we've been itching to get a look at a letter that, according Gibson Dunn, will unmask Paul Ceglia and his claims to Facebook ownership as a fraud. Now, with sanctions requests against Ceglia and his lawyers already clogging the docket, another court deadline to produce the letter has come and gone.

June 01, 2011 | The American Lawyer

The Am Law 200 2011 - Revenue Per Lawyer

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July 31, 2012 | Law.com

Arrest of Russian Opposition Leader Raises Tough Questions for Country's Legal System

Russian prosecutors charged anticorruption lawyer and blogger Alexei Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin's harshest critics, with embezzlement Tuesday in connection with a 2009 timber deal in which he participated as an unpaid adviser. The criminal charges, which carry a five-to-10 year prison term, are the latest to be lodged against a vocal Kremlin critic and have some U.S. lawyers with Russian expertise skeptical about the country's commitment to the rule of law.
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Gibson Dunn Wins Sanctions Ruling in Facebook Ownership Row
Publication Date: 2012-01-11
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Facebook's lawyers at Gibson Dunn aren't letting up in their defense against Paul Ceglia's claim to an 84 percent ownership stake in the online social networking juggernaut. And now Ceglia has been ordered to help pay their fees.

January 18, 2007 | Law.com

Canam's GC Is a Man of Steel

Ron Peppe works as the GC, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer of Canadian company Canam Steel, but he's based in Point of Rocks, Md., which he describes as "very pretty -- two churches, two liquor stores and us." While that may make Canam sound small-town, it's actually a wide-ranging international operation, with engineers in North America as well as Romania and India, and joint ventures in Russia and Dubai. Peppe finds employment issues, rather than big contracts, the toughest to handle.
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July 12, 2011 | New York Law Journal

NY Partners Switching Firms

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March 11, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Is the Torture Finally Over? KLA Backdating Suit Settles ... at Last

Former KLA-Tencor executives have agreed to settle a suit over stock option backdating after four years of torturous litigation, according to a court filing. The executives and the company's insurer will pay about $33 million in cash to KLA, according to lawyers briefed on the settlement.
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