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July 22, 2011 |

Kirkland Wields Wal-Mart v. Dukes Ruling to Knock Out Dow Chemical Toxic Tort Class

This week lawyers for The Dow Chemical Company at Kirkland & Ellis won what they say is the first decision to apply Wal-Mart v. Dukes in an environmental mass tort. A state court judge in Michigan on Monday refused to re-certify a 2,500-member class alleging that contamination by Dow Chemical dioxins decreased property values along a 22-mile-long river floodplain.
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June 10, 2013 |

NEWCOMERS TO THE 350

Reporters Jenna Greene, Sheri Qualters and Zoe Tillman profile 15 firms that entered (or rejoined) the list this year.
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Kirkland Wields Wal-Mart v. Dukes Ruling to Knock Out Dow Chemical Toxic Tort Class
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With help from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling for Wal-Mart in the Dukes case, Dow Chemical's lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis were able to convince a Michigan state judge to reverse two of his own previous decisions allowing class claims over alleged dioxin contamination.

September 01, 2007 |

The Usual Suspects

Public records helped us track down the go-to firms for America's biggest companies.
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August 20, 2007 |

The Usual Suspects

This year's Who Represents America's Biggest Companies survey used state and federal records to see which law firms corporations were using when it came to commercial law and contracts litigation, corporate transactions, employment and labor litigation, and IP litigation and patent prosecution. Familiar faces dominate our listings. Kirkland & Ellis tops the commercial law and contracts litigation chart, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom led the corporate transaction pack again this year.
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April 04, 2005 |

Movers

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn (Detroit): Associates Thomas W. Forster II (real estate) and Robert J. Muchnick (labor and employment) have been elevated to the partnership&#151and other notable personnel shifts.
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April 22, 2004 |

Mutual Satisfaction

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May 01, 2004 |

Mutual Satisfaction

Ust a few years ago, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company's legal department was caught in management's crosshairs. The number of insurance claims needing legal attention had increased 23 percent in four years, from 113,556 matters in 1998 to 139,360 matters in 2002. The 768 in-house lawyers who work on these claims weren't able to keep up with the extra work. The insurer decided not to hire more attorneys. Instead, the company's claims department, which can refer matters in-house or to law firms, sent more hig
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