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Plaintiffs in Four Subprime-Related Securities Class Actions Get (at Least Some) Claims past Dismissal Motions
Publication Date: 2010-04-08
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This week hasn't been as dreadful as the last for the plaintiffs bar (although it hasn't been great, either). Meanwhile, the cascade of recent subprime-related dismissal rulings has revealed some important trends in how the litigation is going to proceed.

November 01, 2000 | Law.com

Let A Thousand Branch Offices Bloom

Over the past two years, planning for post-WTO China has become a top priority for Fortune 500 companies; and Western law firms sense enormous potential for profit. As China's state-owned economy moves toward a free market, the demand for sophisticated legal services has far exceeded the capacity of the country's fledgling domestic bar, allowing Western lawyers to fill the gap.
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New York Judge Holds Argentina in Contempt in Debt Case
Publication Date: 2009-05-28
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Five months after Manhattan federal district court judge Thomas Griesa ruled that Argentine pension funds held in the U.S. could be seized by former bondholders that had obtained judgments against the Republic, the bondholders returned to court with claims that Argentina was secretly moving its frozen assets out of the U.S. The result: Argentina is in contempt.

November 21, 2007 | National Law Journal

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Manhattan Federal Judge Accuses Coughlin Stoia of 'Shocking Conflict of Interest,' But Is Everyone Engaging in the Practice That Irked Him?
Publication Date: 2009-04-16
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Judge Jed Rakoff almost fell off the bench when a pension fund administrator told him Coughlin Stoia monitors his fund's investments for free in order to identify potential securities cases. But is the practice in fact common in the securities class action bar?

March 01, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

NALP Nixes Plan to Ban Offers Before Mid-January

The National Association for Law Placement has released revised guidelines for summer associate recruiting, and the organization has backed away from recommendations to adopt a system that would have banned firms from making any offers before mid-January. Instead, NALP has recommended a system in which firms can make offers to 2Ls at any time but are only obligated to keep those offers open for 28 days instead of the current 45 days.
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Argentina Wins Another Billion-Dollar Battle with Bondholders; Judge Rules Argentine Bank Is Not Republic's Alter Ego
Publication Date: 2011-03-29
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A group of bondholders wanted a judgment permitting them to collect their $2.2 billion judgment against the Republic from Banco de la Naci�n Argentina. That's not what they got.

From Memory Lane: IPO Suit Close to Settling
Publication Date: 2008-10-30
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October 01, 2002 | Law.com

Lessons From 10 Firms

They're working a bit less and enjoying it a bit more. They're more anxious, deeper in debt, and, in their own words, thankful to be so well employed. Taken as a whole, responses to The American Lawyer's annual survey of midlevel associates show overwhelming agreement about what they like and don't like about their jobs. In a sea of superlatives, some firms singled themselves out. Here's how they did it.
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November 01, 2005 | Law.com

Banking on China

In China, capital markets lawyers are retooling an economy that some analysts predict will surpass the United States' by 2041. The current deal wave represents an advanced stage in China's privatization and market liberalization. The inflow of investment into Chinese banks coincides with their IPOs, which began this summer and will stretch into 2007 and beyond. No client has greater legal needs than a bank, and a handful of firms are especially well-positioned to benefit.
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