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February 06, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Personal Notes on Lawyers

Seward & Kissel, Thompson Hine and Venable have all added partners, while other firms announce promotions.
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June 29, 2006 | New York Law Journal

New Deals

Retail chain Lord & Taylor, a unit of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores, Inc., was sold for $1.2 billion to NRDC Equity Partners, LLC. Federated will continue to operate all Lord & Taylor stores until NRDC assumes full ownership. Also, Bayer AG made the largest acquisition in its history when it purchased Schering AG for $21.4 billion. The two will combine to form a single pharmaceutical company headquartered in Berlin and known as Bayer Schering Pharma.
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March 01, 2010 | Law.com

The Politicization of 'Miranda'

Between two U.S. Supreme Court rulings last week and the persistent controversy over the best way to handle suspected terrorists, the matter of Miranda rights and the very nature, scope and application of Miranda have become hot-button issues for all concerned. Joel Cohen and Katherine A. Helm take a look at the current health of Miranda and examine misperceptions of, and attacks on, the fundamentals of Miranda.
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October 15, 1999 | Law.com

Two Firms Settle For $910,000

Coudert Brothers of New York and Los Angeles' Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, together with commercial litigator Ron Goldie, are paying nearly $1 million to settle a suit for alleged malicious prosecution, according to lawyer-plaintiff J. Michael Flanagan. "I know I did nothing wrong. I don't think the law firms did anything wrong," said Goldie. But Flanagan says "It is unheard of that firms would pay anything like this if they weren't liable. They did it."
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September 08, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Litigation

In this Special Section from the New York Law Journal: "Juror Abuse of the Internet," "Which Appellate Division Rulings Bind Which Trial Courts?" and "Defining Civil RICO 'Enterprise' After 'Boyle.'"
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February 08, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Judges' Quandary: Truth and Sentencing

In his Ethics and Criminal Practice column, Joel Cohen, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, uses recent headlines as a jumping off point for a discussion of the judicial ethic that basically insists that judges sometimes engage in a certain amount of deceptiveness on the record, lest they appear to communicate that they are influenced by ostensibly impermissible considerations.
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July 25, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Union's Challenge to City's Plan to Close Schools Is Rejected

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June 02, 2008 | National Law Journal

Critics are mistaken

In attacks on the prosecutor in the Sean Bell case for not trying hard enough to win, media and "trial experts" have characterized his effort as incompetent. But blaming the acquittal of three police officers for killing Sean Bell outside Club Kalua in Queens, N.Y., on prosecutorial ineptness is misdirected. It ignores crucial considerations that no fair-minded prosecutor could avoid. A prosecutor's legal and ethical duty is not only to win, but to win while also serving the cause of justice.
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September 24, 2007 | New York Law Journal

State and Regional Initiatives

E. Gail Suchman, a special counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, and associate Jennifer N. Dumas and special counsel Peter F. Jazayeri of the firm write that although state environmental regulation traditionally has lacked uniformity, in most cases federally mandated minimum standards have existed to guide the regulated community. This is not the case in the area of greenhouse gas regulation, causing uncertainty for corporations in short- and long-term investment planning.
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September 01, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Protecting Board Members From Personal Liability

In their Cooperatives and Condominiums column, Richard Siegler and Eva Talel, partners at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, write that although statutes can protect co-op and condominium board members from personal liability, statutory protection must be included as part of the governing documents. Similarly, insurance coverage can offer protection, but it must be purchased and its terms complied with.
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