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January 25, 2002 | Law.com

Free Agents

When partners make lateral moves, they do so for a variety of reasons and with a variety of goals. Here are some of the standout lateral movers of The American Lawyer's top 200 law firms.
12 minute read
March 18, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Deal of the day

Boca office building is sold for $10.5 million Shamrock Condos faces foreclosure action
2 minute read
June 03, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Thomas classmates doubt '15-cent degree'

Why couldn't Clarence Thomas get a job with a big-city law firm when he graduated from Yale in 1974 It's not an idle question. That "time of dashed hopes and expectations," as Thomas once described it in a speech, still leaves him bitter. His frustration resonates in the autobiography that he published last fall, "My Grandfather's Son.
19 minute read
January 23, 2001 | Law.com

D.C.'s 2000 Honor Roll

From Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld to McDermott, Will & Emery, Washington, D.C. firms make their partner picks for 2001.
46 minute read
August 08, 2001 | Law.com

Who Owns the Earth?

When DuPont went to trial in Beaumont, Texas, the deck was stacked against it, and the stakes high. The plaintiffs -- the McFaddins -- came from one of the most prominent families in Texas, and they had hired one of the state's best-known firms. Their claim: that the cancer-causing chemicals a DuPont plant was flushing through its wells into the earth had traveled beneath their land, had trashed their mineral rights, and would ultimately pollute their drinking water.
16 minute read
December 28, 2012 | Daily Report Online

How Bancroft became conservatives' law firm for hot-button cases

It's a good thing that Paul Clement and Viet Dinh are such close friends. Not many lawyers would do well sharing an office divided down the middle by a sheet of glass. Not only can they watch each other work, but others can look in, too, observing the pair side by side through a hallway wall that is also clear glass. The overall effect is like an exhibit at a museum, or perhaps a zoo.
18 minute read
December 22, 2011 | Daily Business Review

NYC pension funds want tougher Wall Street clawbacks

New York City Comptroller John C. Liu, who oversees $108 billion in pension funds, said Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley should target senior executives' pay to prevent improper or risky practices.
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September 01, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Obtaining Meaningful Expert Disclosure in New York Courts

Steven A. Stadtmauer, senior counsel at Harris Beach PLLC, writes that complete expert opinion disclosures should be aggressively pursued. Where standard disclosures under CPLR 3101(d) are insufficient, the summary judgment motion under CPLR 3212 may be a useful device to force an adversary to flesh out its theory of the case, providing an opportunity to test scientific evidence in advance of trial and to prepare to rebut the evidence at trial.
14 minute read
June 25, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Guzman, plaintiffs-appellants v. 4030 Bronx Blvd. Associates LLC, defendant-respondent

Expert's Testimony Properly Precluded; Suit Wrongly Dismissed Absent Chance to Retain Another Expert
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Goldman Sachs Wields Dukes Ruling in Bid to Nix Class Sex Bias Claims
Publication Date: 2011-07-25
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Goldman and its lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker struck out when they cited the U.S. Supreme Court's Concepcion decision to trim a putative sex discrimination class action earlier this month. Now they're invoking Dukes v. Wal-Mart in a bid extinguish the class claims altogether.

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