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December 22, 2009 | Law.com

Fortress Investment Group Sues Dechert Over Dreier Investment

Back when the mega Ponzi schemes of 2008 broke, law firms braced themselves for lawsuits questioning their diligence in advising clients interested in making investments with the Bernard Madoffs and Marc Dreiers of the world. For the most part, the wave of suits hasn't materialized. But now Fortress Investment Group, the huge private equity fund, has sued Dechert, claiming the firm's lack of diligence in sniffing out Dreier's fraud cost Fortress $125 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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October 07, 2013 | The Recorder

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June 10, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Judge Finds Arkin Firm Liable for Obligations Under Sublease

Veteran litigator Stanley Arkin "cannot avoid personal liability simply because his consent to such (sublease) provisions may now seem ill advised," Acting Supreme Court Justice O. Peter Sherwood said, addressing a major issue in the contentious breakup of Arkin Kaplan Rice.
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February 27, 2013 | New York Law Journal

White-Collar Boutiques Find Their Niche in a Crowded Market

For more than a decade, the provenance of white-collar defense work has been shifting away from boutiques to large corporate firms that have wooed prominent former prosecutors and built strong practices. Nevertheless, boutiques continue to form, prompting many in the defense bar to ask whether there's enough white-collar work to go around.
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March 26, 2013 | Law.com

Military Vets Turned Law Firm Partners Reflect on Experiences Abroad

With the U.S. marking the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war, The Am Law Daily contacted lawyers with personal connections to a conflict that claimed the lives of roughly 4,500 Americans and untold Iraqis for their thoughts a decade after the invasion. Here, in their own words, a group of former Am Law 100 associates—now partners at various firms—who served overseas describe their recollections of a war many Americans would like to forget.
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August 04, 2008 | Law.com

Jury Rejects Claims of $23 Million in Unusual No-Fault Case

A six-person jury in a court that normally hears cases worth $25,000 or less has rejected $23 million in claims against 50 insurance companies from a doctor who claimed to own a professional corporation that performed MRIs for no-fault accident victims. Mark W. Smith, who represented the professional corporation, the ownership of which was at the heart of the case, said in an interview that the verdict would be appealed because the trial judge misapplied a pivotal Court of Appeals case.
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March 27, 2001 | Law.com

Blue Cross/Blue Shield Presses $800 Million Fraud Claim Against Big Tobacco

Using technology to maximum advantage, a lawyer for Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield pressed the health care insurer's $800 million fraud claim against the nation's largest cigarette makers in a nearly three-hour opening statement Monday. But the industry fired back Tuesday morning with Philip Morris' lawyer, Peter K. Bleakley, contending that there had been no deception or fraud because the American public has for many years been well informed about the dangers of smoking.
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November 18, 2009 | Law.com

Bondholders in Casino Deal Trump 'The Donald'

Donald Trump will not be taking over the bankrupt casino and entertainment company that bears his name, but he and his daughter will retain a stake in the entity under the terms of a deal Trump struck with the bondholders who will take the company out of bankruptcy, according to court records. Trump agreed not to compete with Trump Entertainment in New Jersey and five neighboring states; he remains free to use the Trump name elsewhere.
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July 02, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Feds sift through evidence for signs of bank Ponzi role

Experts say prosecutors could easily pursue criminal actions against TD Bank for its role in Scott Rothstein's $1.2 billion Ponzi scam.
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October 01, 2010 | Law.com

Court Orders Release of Therapy Reports Franciscan Friars Kept on Alleged Molesters

A California 2nd District Court of Appeal panel authorized the public release of confidential files on Franciscan friars accused of sexual abuse, upholding a trial court decision that the compelling social interest of protecting children outweighed friars' privacy rights. The friars had fought the release, which was included in a $28.5 million settlement reached in 2006 after plaintiffs in 25 separate lawsuits sued the Franciscan Friars of California, alleging they had been sexually abused by clergy members.
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