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February 08, 2007 | New York Law Journal

New Deals

Laureate Education Inc. has agreed to the buyout price of $3.8 billion offered by an investor group that includes Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Citigroup Private Equity. Also, Merrill Lynch has struck a deal to buy First Republic Bank for $1.8 billion in cash and stock.
4 minute read
February 08, 2005 | Law.com

Attorneys Fear Repercussions of Refusal-to-Treat Trend

A wave of proposed legislation and numerous lawsuits are highlighting a trend by state governments to protect anti-abortion medical providers who refuse to offer services or drugs on religious or moral grounds. Last year, 14 states introduced 37 bills that would allow pharmacists and other health care providers not only to opt out of abortion services, but to refuse to fill prescriptions for any drugs on the basis of personal or moral convictions. Many attorneys fear the government is on a slippery slope.
10 minute read
March 15, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Business Immigration Fraud - Where's the Beef?

In his Immigration Law column, Michael D. Patrick of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy writes that while reasonable measures are necessary to combat fraud in any benefits adjudication process, the call for stricter scrutiny of and tougher adjudication standards for employment-based visa petitions is unsupported by concrete evidence of a systemic failure to detect and deter fraud, despite multiple initiatives to produce same.
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August 23, 2006 | Law.com

Finnegan Leaps to Top of Associate Satisfaction Charts

For years, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner languished around 50th place in The American Lawyer's midlevel associate survey -- respectable, but unexciting. In the last few years, the firm has steadily climbed, reaching second place this year. What fueled Finnegan's leap? The oft-cited but elusive "collegiality" is a big part of it. Combine Finnegan's high marks for partner-associate and peer relationships with the halo currently surrounding IP, and you've got a winning place to work.
12 minute read
September 24, 2004 | Law.com

Bullish on Settling

While resolving cases before legal expenses pile up isn't exactly a novel strategy, few companies in recent memory have pushed product liability settlements as aggressively and systematically as Toro. The $1.5 billion business uses a highly choreographed approach that includes nonthreatening paralegals, experienced settlement counsel and mediators familiar with Toro's preference for early case resolution. Thanks to the program, Toro says it will save $100 million in litigation costs by mid-2005.
13 minute read
October 20, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Progress Proves Elusive for Diversity in the Legal Profession

Five years ago this month, Roderick Palmore wrote "A Call to Action" -- a pledge signed by the general counsel of some of the country's largest corporations vowing to make diversity a major consideration in their selection of outside counsel.
11 minute read
November 16, 1999 | Law.com

Some Superinformant

A case before a federal appeals court in Washington D.C. may reveal what some say is the dark side to the use of paid government informants: that "superinformants" are criminals themselves and get away with perjury on the stand. Defense lawyers claim Andrew Chambers, a drug dealer, has actually made as much as $4 million in his role as a government informant since he began in 1984. Despite a criminal record he has repeatedly lied about on the witness stand, they contend he still works as a DEA informant.
10 minute read
October 29, 2007 | Law.com

The Decision-Making Behind the Wait for the HLF Verdict

Chief U.S. District Judge A. Joe Fish, who presided over United States v. Holy Land Foundation, et al., says he believes in the maxim "justice delayed is justice denied." But after the foreperson sent a note saying the jury had reached some unanimous decisions in the case, Fish made a choice to wait four days before reading a verdict. The plan, particularly in light of some jurors' change of heart about their decisions, and the mistrial that resulted last week, has prompted some criticism.
10 minute read
October 20, 2009 | Law.com

Progress Proves Elusive for Diversity in the Legal Profession

Five years ago, Roderick Palmore wrote "A Call to Action" -- a pledge signed by GCs at some of the country's largest corporations to make diversity a major consideration in their selection of outside counsel. Diversity efforts across the legal profession mushroomed, but real progress has been painfully slow. A sample of diversity advocates, law firm partners, GCs and law school leaders generally agree that the legal profession needs to make deeper, more collective changes to jump-start the stalled diversity movement.
11 minute read

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