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2004's Leading Verdicts and Settlements in Texas
The top 10 Texas verdict and settlement summaries of 2004 that were reported in VerdictSearch Texas, a Texas Lawyer affiliate. They are ranked by dollar amount.Ten years ago, Credit Suisse was hit with 14 class actions in the wake of investigations into the independence of stock analysts. Last week, it saw the last of those cases disappear. For Lawrence Portnoy of Davis Polk & Wardwell, the company's lead lawyer in all of these cases, it was the end of a long and successful campaign.
The ABCs of How Law Firms Reward Hard Work
In most professions, employees were happy to have made it through 2002 with their jobs intact. But large-firm associates live in a different world. Though billable hours were down in most transactional practice areas, some law firms are still offering generous bonuses. The method for determining how much the bonuses will be and who gets them, however, varies from firm to firm and city to city.Lawyers Giving Bush and Kerry Campaigns Cash at Record Pace
pressure to raise enormous sums for the presidential campaign is on, and lawyers are delivering. Law firms and individual attorneys have poured nearly $17 million into presidential campaigns within the last year, putting them on target to increase the amount they gave in the 2000 presidential election by more than half. Between January 2003 and March of this year, lawyers nationwide have donated $8.8 million to Bush and $7.9 million to Sen. John Kerry.NYC Bar Supports MDP, With Limits
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York's executive committee came out in qualified support of multidisciplinary practice. The City Bar, setting a condition that would quash the ambitions of Big Five accounting firms seeking to add law practices, said it could not support an MDP that provides both audit and legal services because there is an "irreconcilable difference" between the confidentiality obligations of lawyers and the public disclosure obligations of auditors.List of Ineligible Attorneys - NJ by County
Notice to the bar.Blood Money Paid by Chiquita Shows Company's Hard Choices
Chiquita Brands International says it had to pay off Colombian terrorists to protect its employees. The Justice Department says the company simply made an "expedient" choice. An exhaustive look at the four-year probe finds that neither side is exactly right. Documents, as well as interviews with attorneys from both sides, paint a portrait of a GC and a company giving in to extortion. It is the stuff of spy thrillers, describing veiled threats of violence, secret payments and an excruciating moral dilemma.Many of the world's most powerful private equity firms must face an investor class action alleging that they conspired to drive down buy-out prices for publicly traded companies, a federal judge in Boston ruled Thursday.
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