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Jones Day Defeats $1.65B Mega-Suit over Iraq Oil Rights
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
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One of the largest and costliest matters backed by outside litigation funding — an ambitious $1.65 billion lawsuit brought by two American brothers — met its demise on Tuesday.

F-Cubed Fallout: Trial Courts to Reconsider Porsche and Vivendi Securities Cases
Publication Date: 2010-07-06
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That didn't take long. A couple of Manhattan federal district court judges overseeing billion-dollar securities cases are already weighing the effect of the Supreme Court's game-changing ruling in Morrison v. NAB.

July 31, 2008 | The American Lawyer

Associates Survey 2008

Smaller firms often outscore larger ones on our annual survey of midlevel job satisfaction. It may be because a more intimate atmosphere breeds happiness. Maybe it's because associates have more responsibility. Perhaps it's because they have a better chance of making partner. In these charts, firms are grouped roughly according to size. In the first category are firms whose annual gross revenues are too low to qualify for the Am Law 200. These are the smallest firms that took part in our survey. In the second category are Am Law Second Hundred firms?numbers 101-200 on the most recent Am Law 200 survey (July.) In the final category are firms that appear on our most recent Am Law 100 (May) or Global 100 (October 2007) survey. For a full methodology, click here.
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Robins Kaplan Files Copycat Antitrust Suit Against Del Monte Adviser, Private Equity LBO Sponsors
Publication Date: 2011-03-09
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The allegations in the new complaint sound an awful lot like what shareholders have already claimed in a Delaware Chancery Court case against Barclays and KKR. But they're also similar to those in a sweeping LBO bid-rigging suit Robins is pursuing against 17 investment banks and private equity funds.

In the Other WaMu Litigation, Seattle Judge Dismisses Trust Securities Claims Against WaMu Officials, Investment Banks
Publication Date: 2010-06-23
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The proceedings in Delaware have hogged the spotlight, but there's some pretty significant litigation over the WaMu collapse going on in Seattle as well.

April 17, 2002 | New York Law Journal

New York Court of Appeals Roundup

T his month we discuss another opinion by the Court of Appeals in the dispute between Bluebird Partners LP, purchaser of bonds issued by Continental Airlines prior to its bankruptcy, and the bond trustees. The opinion resolved one issue relating to the financially significant question of whether causes of action arising out of bonds are transferred with the bonds when they are sold or remain with transferor, finding that the causes of action may be asserted by the transferee pursuant to the General Obligati
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June 03, 2003 | New York Law Journal

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December 13, 2004 | New York Law Journal

NYLJ 100: Largest Private Law Offices in New York State

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November 05, 2004 | Law.com

The Firm Reports: From N to W

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March 13, 2007 | Law.com

Law Firms Keeping Close Eye on Sidley Case

The EEOC's age discrimination case against Sidley Austin asks: Are mandatory retirement guidelines in a law firm's partnership illegal? Firms are saying age isn't a factor, despite a recent study that shows more than half of large law firms have a mandatory retirement age. "Law firms, by and large, have been mostly unaccountable," says employment lawyer Lynne Bernabei. "[The Sidley case is] the beginning of law firms having to make sure their employment practices comply with anti-discriminatory laws."
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