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September 07, 2009 | National Law Journal

A family fights and a lawyer falls

Hogan & Hartson partner Robert Cave was warned not to get involved. But he agreed to help Colleen Boland negotiate a settlement agreement with her ex-husband. Now nearly 12 years later, Boland is dead and her two sons are suing Cave and Hogan & Hartson in two courts for breach of contract and malpractice.
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December 16, 2005 | Law.com

Avoid Defense Contract Snags

A Senate hearing in September disclosed that many defense weapons programs are costing more and taking longer than planned, with a number of major contracts being formally restructured. If a company enters into a defense contract with the government, advise Wiley, Rein & Fielding partners Rand L. Allen and Martin P. Willard, then its in-house counsel should proactively work to prevent crises by practicing astute contract administration and more aggressive legal review.
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October 29, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Taxpayers hit by Fed's secret swaps buy

In the months leading up to the September 2008 collapse of giant insurer American International Group Inc., Elias Habayeb and his colleagues worked nights and weekends negotiating with banks that had bought $62 billion of credit-default swaps from AIG, according to a person who has worked with Habayeb.Habayeb, 37, was chief financial officer for the AIG division that oversaw AIG Financial Products, the unit that had sold the swaps to the banks.
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June 04, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

'To Preserve and Collect': Oil Spill a Discovery Nightmare for Lawyers

The in-house lawyers at the companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster face an agonizing and pricey task — discovery. How high could the price tag go? One expert, who calls the spill 'Enron on steroids,' says it could top $100 million.
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June 05, 2006 | National Law Journal

Law school at center of judicial junkets storm

As the controversy regarding judicial junkets intensifies, one prominent law school is finding itself at the center of the commotion.
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August 30, 2005 | Law.com

'Palmer v. Marsh': New Considerations for Non-compete Agreements

A recent 11th Circuit ruling -- that a Georgia state unenforceability ruling concerning a non-compete agreement should be extended to any other lawsuit between the parties in any other state -- means corporate counsel should reconsider their approach to drafting and enforcing non-compete agreements. Corporate counsel must ensure their company is not forced into a situation where a federal court hostile to non-competes issues an adverse decision that is then enforced nationally.
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June 20, 2000 | New Jersey Law Journal

Daily Decision Alert: Vol. 8, No. 119 -- June 20, 2000

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January 18, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Exit Fees

Kenneth M. Block and Jeffrey B. Steiner, members of Brown Raysman Felder & Steiner, write that it is now common for lenders to provide for an "exit fee"--additional or deferred interest due at any time the loan is paid off, even at time of maturity. A review of litigation arising from the applicability and enforceability of these fees shows that precision of drafting may have avoided the disputes.
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August 21, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

Focus Now on Firm's Carrier In Case Over Abducted Child

A father who won $950,000 from his ex-wife's law firm for enabling their daughter's abduction is trying to get its malpractice carrier to pay, even though the firm says it waived coverage.
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November 07, 2005 | National Law Journal

Interlocutory Jurisdiction

What happens to the rest of the case while an interlocutory appeal is pending? � 1292(b), provides for a discretionary appeal of other interlocutory orders, based on the district court�s certification that the order involves a controlling, and unsettled, question of law and that immediate appeal may materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation.
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