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June 18, 2007 | Law.com

Conflict Looms Over Executive Privilege

Democrats have long believed that the DOJ's plan to fire U.S. Attorneys began in the White House, and last week they proved willing to take the investigation to its doorstep by subpoenaing former Bush aides. White House counsel Fred Fielding hasn't budged from his first response to congressional inquiries in March: no transcripts and no public testimony. But many observers say the subpoenas are likely to force the White House to find a middle ground, even if it takes a protracted legal fight to get there.
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October 03, 2003 | Law.com

Directors' Concern Increases Over Executive Pay

It seems the reformers are not finished with the corporate boardroom. This time the issue is executive compensation, propelled to the front lines by the scandal over former New York Stock Exchange Chairman Richard Grasso's $188 million compensation package. The Grasso pay flap is the latest in a series of events causing corporate directors to wonder if they too could be blamed for how they go about paying company executives.
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March 31, 2004 | Law.com

Vermont Torts to Govern Suit Against IBM

A Westchester County, N.Y., judge has ruled that a teenager with birth defects can sue IBM in New York under the laws of Vermont, where the young woman's father worked in an IBM factory and allegedly contaminated his pregnant wife with chemicals. The ruling establishes tort rights for Vermont plaintiffs among those suing IBM in New York over chemicals at its plants in East Fishkill, N.Y., and Burlington, Vt.
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May 07, 2002 | Law.com

Miami Lawyer Loses Enron Assignment to New York, Houston Firms

In a surprising turn of events, the firms Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman in New York and McClain & Siegel in Houston outmaneuvered Scott L. Baena, a partner with Bilzin Sumberg Dunn Baena Axelrod & Price in Miami, and jointly won the position as counsel to the Severed Enron Employee Coalition (SEEC). In January, Baena was retained by the SEEC to win a separate, employee-only committee.
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December 08, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Justices Reluctant to Tinker With SOX Oversight Board

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared inclined to leave well enough alone Monday and not tinker with the structure of an accounting oversight board created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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June 03, 2005 | Law.com

Breathing Down on California

Brent Coon sees the future of lung litigation, and it's far beyond his Texas headquarters. But the prospect of Texas attorneys moving to California worries local lung lawyers.
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July 23, 2001 | Law.com

Death of a 'Pac-Man'

Indianapolis doesn't spring to mind when we think of cutthroat lateral hiring. But Johnson Smith has long been that town's rebel, regularly raiding the larger firms for top talent. The "Pac-Man" firm, Indy lawyers called the fast-growing Johnson Smith, which peaked at more than 60 transplants. Live by the lateral sword, die by the lateral sword -- on May 8, after merger plans fell through, the firm called it quits.
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October 13, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Circuit Ends Doctors' Antitrust Litigation

Problems with venue and a lack of standing have doomed an antitrust case brought by a proposed class of some 14,000 emergency room physicians who claimed that the American Board of Emergency Medicine, the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors and several hospitals colluded to use the physician certification process to restrain trade and monopolize the market for emergency-room doctors.
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February 28, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Sign of the Times: Large Firms in Texas Make More Partners in 2005

The number of new partner promotions at Texas' largest firms increased for 2005, but the percentage of minority and female partners decreased when compared with 2004.
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July 21, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

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