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March 10, 2005 | Law.com

Cigarette Makers Lose Bid To Arbitrate Lower Payouts

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has dealt a setback to cigarette makers in a legal battle to lower by $1 billion a year industry payments reached under a historic settlement in 1998. The makers claim an explosive growth in illegal Internet cigarette sales makes their participation in the pact unfair and say their claims could be litigated in a single arbitration proceeding. Instead, the judge said, they must proceed in a more cost-intensive, state-by-state litigation.
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December 13, 2007 | National Law Journal

Frankfurt Merger Hands Paul Hastings Long-Awaited German Debut

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has made its long-awaited German debut after brokering a deal to absorb respected 27-lawyer Frankfurt boutique Smeets Haas Wolff. All five Smeets Haas partners, who focus on corporate, banking and restructuring work, will join the Los Angeles-based firm as equity partners when the combination goes live on Jan. 3. The firm had been looking to launch in Europe's largest economy since 2003.
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September 08, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Opt-Out Parties Must Pay Class Lawyers

A federal judge has ruled that a group of plaintiffs who recently opted out of a class-action antitrust case in order to pursue their own claims must set aside a percentage of any settlement or judgment they win to compensate the team of plaintiffs' lawyers who worked on the case for more than five years.
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Defendants Extend East Texas Hot Streak with Wi-Lan Verdict
Publication Date: 2013-07-17
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Companies fighting patent infringement claims once went three frustrating years without a single jury win in the Eastern District of Texas. So far this year, they've prevailed at trial seven times, far eclipsing the number of plaintiffs wins. What gives?

March 08, 2007 | Law.com

Bankruptcy Rainmaker Rejoins Weil, Gotshal

The firm's bankruptcy practice has been in decline since Harvey Miller left five years ago.
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October 24, 2003 | Law.com

Disbarred D.C. Lawyer Not Deterred by High Court Snub

Disbarred D.C. criminal defense lawyer William Borders Jr. says his battle for reinstatement of his law license will continue in spite of the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of his case Monday. Borders, a former president of the National Bar Association, had asked the court to rule that because he was pardoned by President Clinton in 2001 of crimes he committed 22 years ago, his reinstatement as a lawyer should be automatic.
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April 11, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Directors' Exercise of the Corporate Privilege

In his Corporate Litigation column, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partner Joseph M. McLaughlin writes: Current directors of a corporation have a near-absolute right to inspect the corporation's books and records, including the privileged legal advice the corporation seeks and obtains. Recent case law exploring the boundaries of this right illustrates that in practice the analysis is more nuanced.
14 minute read
October 01, 2006 | The American Lawyer

Modern English

In addition to purchasing an equity stake in their firm, most new partners at the English law firm Slaughter and May buy a napkin ring, too.
19 minute read
January 22, 2003 | Law.com

DOJ Fires at Lawyers for Big Tobacco

The federal government's suit against the tobacco industry is still being actively pursued. Last month, the Justice Department filed a motion claiming that industry lawyers violated the D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct. And at a hearing on Friday, the government said that top Philip Morris officials deleted thousands of e-mail messages they should have kept.
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March 10, 2004 | Law.com

N.J. Inmates Sue Over Mail Policy

New Jersey state prisoners are challenging a policy that allows officials to open mail from inmates' lawyers -- and allegedly read and copy it -- before delivering it to them. The Department of Corrections instituted the tougher policy to guard against mail threats such as anthrax, but three prisoners at Eastern Jersey State Prison in Rahway claim the policy is an unconstitutional chill on lawyer-client communications.
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