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Shell Agrees to $15.5 Million Settlement in Nigeria Alien Tort Claims Act Case
Publication Date: 2009-06-08
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The oil company did not acknowledge wrongdoing but has agreed to settle claims that it was complicit in the 1995 abuse and hanging of Nigerian playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and other activists protesting the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta. The settlement averts what would have been a rare Alien Tort Claims Act trial.

J. Crew Settles Shareholder Challenge to TPG Buyout; Are Investors Any Better Off?
Publication Date: 2011-01-18
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Plaintiffs lawyers got J. Crew to agree to changes in the merger process, but whether that will result in an improved bid is an open question.

Morgan Stanley Wins Dismissal of Derivative Suit Challenging Exec Bonuses
Publication Date: 2010-12-13
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Oh the conundrum of pre-suit demand letters! Grant & Eisenhofer argued that it would have been futile to demand that Morgan Stanley's board bar outsized bonuses to executives whose rash decisions nearly collapsed the business. A New York state court judge disagreed.

February 07, 2006 | Law.com

D.C. Firms View China With Caution

Dozens of U.S. firms have swept into the Chinese market in recent years -- 39 of the largest 250 U.S. firms have offices in Shanghai, Beijing or Hong Kong. But Washington, D.C., firms have been late to the game, with some justification. Most of the law firm money to be made stems from burgeoning corporate activity -- foreign investment, IPOs and mergers and acquisitions -- which is largely the province of big firms in New York and L.A. Still, China won't be ignored -- there's just too much money at stake.
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January 22, 2007 | Law.com

Federal Prosecutor Leading Apple Probe to Leave for Fenwick

Christopher Steskal, the federal prosecutor leading a criminal probe into Apple's options grants, will leave the San Francisco U.S. Attorney's Office next month to head Fenwick & West's white-collar practice. Also the lone prosecutor in the Brocade backdating case, Steskal has been especially busy of late -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs was interviewed by prosecutors and SEC lawyers last week, according to sources. Dozens of options cases are now in limbo, with U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan on his way out as well.
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October 30, 2001 | Law.com

The Straight Dope

In the summer of 1999 an American track and field athlete tested positive for a banned steroid, and was found guilty of doping and suspended from competition. Then, two months before the start of last year's summer Olympics in Sydney, an appeals panel overturned the decision. Was justice done? Or did a dirty athlete flex enough legal muscle to get into and possibly medal in the Olympics?
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It's the Energizer Bunny of Litigation: Broadcom v. Qualcomm Keeps Going and Going...
Publication Date: 2008-09-02
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October 24, 2003 | Law.com

Is the Future Free?

A new lawsuit is roiling the world of computers. Software company SCO Group is suing IBM Corp. for putting SCO's proprietary computer code into Linux, the core of certain computer operating systems. However, the Linux computer code is governed by a licensing agreement specifically written to make it freely available to all. SCO's case weaves together threads of computer code, copyright and licensing law, and geek history.
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May 10, 1999 | Law.com

Conn.'s Top Firms Beef Up IPO Practices

Steamed, but not shocked was Cummings & Lockwood's Vincent M. Kiernan last December when one of the firm's most promising clients, Stamford-based Priceline.com Inc., decided to go public without putting C&L in charge of the legalities. The job of issuer's counsel to the Internet retailer went, instead, to New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
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Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Merck Statute of Limitations Case, Agrees to Take F-Cubed Case
Publication Date: 2009-11-30
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Merck replaced Evan Chesler with Kannon Shanmugam of Williams & Connolly in its attempt to overturn a Third Circuit ruling that said shareholders filed their Vioxx-related securities fraud ruling before the statute of limitations ran out. But according to Tony Mauro, the W&C lawyer had a rough go at the high court. Meanwhile, the Roberts Court continues to take on thorny business issues, granting cert--over the SEC's objections--in the leading f-cubed case.

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