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April 02, 2010 | The Recorder

Supreme Court Ruling Opens Courts to More Class Actions

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented in a ruling that allows certain class actions barred or limited by state laws to be pursued in federal courts.
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Elliott Associates v. Porsche Automobil Holding, 10 Civ. 0532
Publication Date: 2011-01-04
Practice Area: Business Law
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Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
Judge: Before: Harold Baer, Jr.
Case number: 10 Civ. 0532 (HB)

Cite as: Elliott Associates v. Porsche Automobil Holding, 10 Civ. 0532, NYLJ 1202476997376, at *1 (SDNY, Decided December 30, 2010)Before: Harold Baer, Jr.

April 19, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

LoL, BTW ... My Boss Is Monitoring Every Text That I Send, ;)

The Supreme Court on Monday leaps into the high-tech world of text messaging in a challenge with potentially huge implications for the privacy rights of senders and receivers and for workplace communications.
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December 07, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

DLA and Piper Rudnick Make Merger Official

London's DLA and the partners of Piper Rudnick voted to merge the firms Saturday, creating what on Jan. 1 will be the world's third-largest law firm measured by lawyers and fifth-largest measured by revenues.
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September 30, 2009 | The American Lawyer

The Leader Board

These are the Global 100 firms with the largest number of lawyers outside their home countries. RPL and PPP statistics are for each firm's most recent fiscal year. The "CAGR RPL" and "CAGR PPP" numbers represent each firm's compound annual growth rate in revenue per lawyer and profits per partner, respectively, over the past five years. The first number in the "Foreign Presence" column is the number of lawyers the firm has outside its home country; the second is the percentage of lawyers outside the home country. For statistics on additional firms, see americanlawyer.com.
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September 23, 2009 | Law.com

Gide Adds Trio to Vietnam Office in International Reshuffle

Gide Loyrette Nouel is building up its Vietnam presence, adding three lawyers to its Ho Chi Minh City office this month. The French firm relocated Jacques de Servigny to be the new partner-in-charge of the Vietnam practice, which also has an office in Hanoi. De Servigny headed Gide's Budapest office since it opened in 1993 and helped oversee the firm's Eastern European expansion. Gide also hired Sullivan & Cromwell's London-based associate Samantha Campbell to head its Vietnam banking and finance practice.
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Stakes Are High as Lawyers Prep for Kiobel Re-argument
Publication Date: 2012-09-26
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Nearly 50 amicus briefs have piled up arguing for and against corporate liability for overseas human rights violations, as Quinn Emanuel's Kathleen Sullivan prepares to argue for Royal Dutch Shell in the first case of the new U.S. Supreme Court term.

March 29, 1999 | Law.com

Democracy Takes a Hit at Anderson Kill

How does a law firm that treats all its lawyers as partners and is ruled by a one-person, one-vote philosophy fire 15 percent of its members? Egalitarianism goes by the wayside. The firm changes its partnership agreement to concentrate power in the hands of a three-person executive committee before the axe falls. Such was the case at New York's Anderson Kill & Olick, which on March 12 fired 22 of 130 partners.
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August 01, 1999 | Law.com

Power

What is power? How do you know when you've got it in today's legal profession? How do top-ranking women lawyers view their jobs, lives, and young female colleagues? To find out, Corporate Counsel selected nine highly placed women lawyers and asked them to talk about life at the top.
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Sixth Circuit Certifies Whirlpool Class Action—Again
Publication Date: 2013-07-19
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Despite instructions from the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its earlier ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Thursday certified—for the second time in two years—a consumer class action against Whirlpool Corp.

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