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April 04, 2006 | Law.com

HealthSouth Coughs Up Healthy Profits for Attorneys

HealthSouth Corp. is boosting lots of lawyers' incomes. The Birmingham, Ala., company expects to pay a total of about $147 million in legal fees for litigation expenses incurred since federal prosecutors launched a fraud case against the company and its founder and former CEO in 2003, according to the company's annual report filed last week. That figure does not include salaries paid to the in-house law department.
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November 26, 2003 | Law.com

Enron Examiner Questions Company's Counsel

Did Enron Corp.'s in-house and outside counsel willfully ignore signs that all was not right in the company's executive suite or did they just fail to notice altogether? Those are among the possibilities raised in Enron examiner Neal Batson's final report, particularly a 247-page appendix devoted to the role played by Enron's lawyers in the sham financial transactions that ultimately led to the company's collapse.
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June 09, 2005 | Law.com

Solutia, Monsanto Reach Accord

After 18 months in bankruptcy and nearly eight years after its spin-off, Solutia Inc. has reached a truce with former parent Monsanto Co. and its unsecured creditors. Under an agreement announced Tuesday, Solutia would offer $250 million in new stock to unsecured creditors in a rights offering backstopped by Monsanto. The St. Louis-based agricultural biotechnology company and unsecured creditors would split the rest of the stock of a reorganized Solutia.
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July 24, 2008 | Law.com

New Suits Over Recalled Drugs May Target China

Plaintiffs attorneys say a recent surge in lawsuits involving two recalled drugs, generic blood thinner heparin and prescription medication Digitek, could signal a clean break from past actions that were far less successful against Vioxx and Paxil. The heparin suits are the first to be brought against a manufacturer with ties to China, which has been linked in litigation to dangerous products such as toys, pet food and toothpaste. But some say the recent drug lawsuits aren't all easy to swallow.
9 minute read
August 19, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

Remove

The first state action seeking to hold the paint industry accountable for health hazards caused by lead paint used decades ago is about to go to trial.
5 minute read
January 31, 2001 | Law.com

The Troops Disperse

When Los Angeles-based Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey started shopping for a merger mate last summer, it quickly became clear that not every lawyer would land in the same place. But nobody foresaw that Troop, once a powerful entertainment firm that closed for business on January 1, would splinter into as many pieces as it has. And the splintering may not be over yet.
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January 01, 2008 | The American Lawyer

Footnotes

Important, intriguing, and just plain odd: From a nuclear showdown to Elizabeth Taylor's van Gogh, Am Law litigators had their hands full in 2006 and 2007.
14 minute read
March 03, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

An 85-Year-Old Sculptor vs. the Government in Unusual Copyright Fight

And the sculptor won, thanks to some (sort of) pro bono work from Fish & Richardson.
4 minute read
September 17, 2002 | Law.com

Making the Transition to Media Relations

"It's hard for attorneys to make the transition," says Leah Guggenheimer of the tricky business of switching from associate to law firm marketing and public relations. "For one thing, you see a lot of 'J.D.s need not apply' in the ads." But it can be done -- and now there's even a network, called Law Firm Media Professionals, to provide support and strategy (and a safe place to vent) for law firm media relations types.
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October 20, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

AP to Shepard Fairey Lawyers: We'd Prefer You Stick Around

In the wake of the artist's admission that he fabricated and destroyed evidence in his copyright fight with The Associated Press, his lawyers have suggested they want off the case. Not so fast, says The AP.
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