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December 09, 2013 | Law.com

How Jones Day Won Role of Trying to Save Detroit

Fourteen firms pitched Motor City officials with proposals detailing how they intended to help the city get out from under its crippling financial problems. A close look at the bids each firm submitted, as well as conversations with those involved in the process, reveal how Jones Day emerged as the winner.
17 minute read
December 09, 2013 | National Law Journal

IN BRIEF: Golf Co. Whiffs

Rovio Entertainment Ltd., the developer of the popular Angry Birds game franchise, filed a trademark infringement suit against Key Biscayne, Fla., golf equipment supplier Angry Club LLC, claiming its logo of a red A with furrowed eyebrows was too similar to the iconic birds. Plus more from NLJ.com and other ALM publications.
4 minute read
December 05, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Miller Canfield Denies Conflict in Detroit Assignment

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone insisted in a Wednesday filing that its role as counsel to the Public Lighting Authority of Detroit in bond negotiations aimed at ensuring that all of the hard-pressed city's 80,000 streetlights remain lit does not constitute a conflict despite the firm's concurrent representation of Detroit itself in its just-approved Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
5 minute read
December 03, 2013 | Law.com

With Detroit's Chapter 9 Filing Approved, Some Firms Win Big

In a historic ruling handed down Tuesday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes approved Detroit's Chapter 9 petition and made the Motor City the largest U.S. municipality ever to declare itself legally insolvent. Rhodes' decision, which also permits the cutting of city pension obligations and the sale of municipal assets, means htat more than a dozen Am Law 200 firms will continue to rack up fees advising clients in the case.
9 minute read
November 21, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Jones Day Detroit Bankruptcy Tab So Far: $11 Million

According to Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr's latest tally, the firm had been paid $11 million against an $18 million cap through October 1 for its work advising the financially crippled city on its restructuring.
4 minute read
November 15, 2013 | The American Lawyer

The Score: DLA Piper Takes Lead on New Braves Stadium

Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves stunned many this week by announcing that the team will leave its downtown home in 2017 for a new $672 million stadium in suburban Cobb County. Elsewhere in our latest look at sports and the law: Gordon & Rees, Norton Rose Fulbright, Paul Weiss, and Womble Carlyle wade into an NFL bullying case; Alex Rodriguez adds to his robust legal team; and an ex-Milbank associate seeks to make running with the bulls a U.S. sport.
13 minute read
September 27, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

Spoliation Standard

Some experts say proposed amendments to federal e-discovery rules would clear up confusion over litigation holds and standardize the rules for sanctions…
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September 26, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

Magistrate judge limits scope of the duty to preserve in denying spoliation sanctions

The plaintiffs sought adverse inference sanctions against defendant Cisco for reformatting and destroying data on the computer of former employee Terry McKeon. The July 15 opinion in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California outlines the current state of law on the duty to preserve data and...
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May 22, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

Lawful Anti-Solicitation

Blatant anti-poaching agreements such as the ones among several large Silicon Valley tech companies that resulted in antitrust charges and an employee…
5 minute read
May 21, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

Federal court denies class certification in Silicon Valley antitrust case

When a Google recruiter emailed an Apple employee in 2007 about a possible opening, the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs discovered the email and quickly forwarded it to his counterpart at Google, CEO Eric Schmidt.
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