• January 20, 2016 | New York Law Journal

    On the Move

    • Latham & Watkins has added Louis a as counsel in its corporate department and its financial institutions industry group.

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  • January 19, 2016 | New York Law Journal

    On the Move

    Latham & Watkins has added Louis Trotta, formerly of Goldman Sachs, as counsel; Milbank Tweed has elected four to the firm's partnership; Craig Levine has joined The Bronx Defenders as managing director of the Civil Action Practice and External Affairs; and more.

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  • January 13, 2016 |

    Erie Ins. Prop. & Cas. Co. v. Rockhold

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis Erie Ins. Prop & Cas. Co.v.Rockhold2014 WL 1783603Only the Westlaw citation is currently available.United…

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  • January 5, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

    High Court Shelves Case Over Fee Award in Contractor Dispute

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has dismissed as improvidently granted an appeal on the narrow question of whether the Contractor and Subcontractor Payment Act requires an award of attorney f

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  • January 4, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

    High Court Shelves Case Over Fee Award in Contractor Dispute

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has dismissed as improvidently granted an appeal on the narrow question of whether the Contractor and Subcontractor Payment Act requires an award of attorney fees to the winner of a case if the party that breached the contract nevertheless acted in good faith.

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  • December 26, 2015 | National Law Journal

    Lobbying, Litigators and Laterals: The Year in Legal Business

    With sustained and modest fiscal stability across the legal industry last year, 2015 created a clean palette for many of D.C.'s largest law firms. Some redesigned their Washington-focuse

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  • December 26, 2015 | National Law Journal

    Lobbying, Litigators and Laterals: The Year in Legal Business

    With sustained and modest fiscal stability across the legal industry last year, 2015 created a clean palette for many of D.C.'s largest law firms. Some redesigned their Washington-focused practices like lobbying and white-collar law, many added or lost groups of lawyers, and a few considered or closed on mergers. We look at the 10 top trends and business decisions that created buzz in Washington Big Law this year, from Dentons to Dennis Hastert.

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  • December 23, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

    New Law Lets O&G Leases Survive Mortgage Foreclosures

    Beginning Jan. 1, 2016, the recently passed Texas House Bill 2207 amends the current law relating to the foreclosure sale of property subject to an oil or gas lease and provides that, if a mortgage is foreclosed, and if an oil and gas lease covering the property was entered into after the mortgage, the oil and gas lease remains in effect and is not cut off by the foreclosure.

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  • December 23, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

    New Law Lets O&G Leases Survive Mortgage Foreclosures

    For many years, the general rule related to Texas mineral estate issues has been "first in time, first in right." However, beginning Jan. 1, 2016, the recently passed Texas House B

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  • December 23, 2015 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Del. Supreme Court En Banc Calls for Retrial in Murder Case

    An en banc panel of the Delaware Supreme Court has granted a retrial for a death-row inmate convicted in 2001 of murdering a man and a 5-year-old boy, saying the man received ineffective cou

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