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  • July 17, 2003 | The Recorder

    Mating Ritual

    Several East Coast and Midwestern suitors have approached San Francisco litigation mainstay Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold about a possible merger.But the firm's chairman, Kevin

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  • October 23, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Novell Board Gets Hit With Third Derivative Suit Regarding Options Backdating

    Amid the growing pile of derivative lawsuits stemming from the stock option backdating scandal, the latest complaint filed Wednesday against Novell Inc. takes particular aim not just at grants

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  • November 18, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Former Qwest GC Tempest Under Scrutiny

    The latest ex-general counsel to come under government scrutiny: Drake Tempest, former legal chief at Qwest Communications International Inc. In their investigation of possible wrongdo

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  • March 4, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Seeking Public Exposure

    By Susan Tomai and Bill ConnorNew Jersey Law JournalThe bookers and segment producers of the ever-increasing torrent of talk shows say it's not complicated. Whether it's lawyers,

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  • July 18, 2000 | The Legal Intelligencer

    3rd Circuit Dismisses Suit Against Rapper

    C. Delores Tucker, the former politician who began a crusade against "gansta rap" music, cannot sue the estate of rapper Tupac Shakur for the cursing criticisms of her that he included in the

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  • May 16, 2006 | The Recorder

    Milberg Weiss Weighs Nonprosecution Deal

    Of the four name partners at America's most famous plaintiffs firm, Lawrence Milberg seems to be in the most enviable position these days. And he's dead. For the other three whose names are

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  • September 8, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Intelsat, Ltd., a global communications provider headquartered in Pembroke, Bermuda, signed a definitive merger agreement on Aug. 29 with satellite provider PanAmSat Holding Corporat

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  • September 20, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Profit-Based Bonus Plans Bolstered by California Ruling

    Lawyers in California expect more employers to set up profit-based bonus plans for their workers after the state Supreme Court found them last month to be legal. The legality of such plans,

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  • Synergetics USA Inc. v. Alcon Laboratories Inc., 08 CIV. 3669

    Publication Date: 2009-07-20
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    Date Filed: 2009-07-09
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Denise Cote
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 08 CIV. 3669

    District Judge Denise Cote U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Appearances: For Plaintiff: Andrea Bierstein, Paul J. Hanly, Jr., Hanly, Conroy, Bier

  • In re Thorpe Insulation Company

    Publication Date: 2012-01-24
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    Date Filed: 2012-01-24
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dale S. Fischer, District Judge, Presiding Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Richard Seeborg, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Patterson (argued), Kenneth N. Klee, Daniel J. Bussel, and David M. Guess, Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jeremy V. Richards and Scotta E. McFarland, Pachulski, Stang, Diehl & Jones LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellee Thorpe Insulation Company. John A. Lapinski and Leslie R. Horowitz, Clark & Trevithick, P.L.C., Los Angeles, California, for appellee Pacific Insulation Company. Peter Van N. Lockwood (argued), Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, Washington, D.C.; Peter J. Benvenutti, Jones Day, San Francisco, California, for appellee Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Thorpe Insulation Company and Pacific Insulation Company. Gary Fergus, Fergus, A Law Office, San Francisco, California, for appellee Charles B. Renfrew, the Futures Representative.
    for defendant: David C. Christian, II (argued), Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, Illinois; James M. Harris, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Los Angeles, California; Todd C. Jacobs, Grippe & Elden LLC, Chicago, Illinois, for appellants Continental Insurance Company and National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford. Tancred V. Schiavoni, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, New York; Richard B. Goetz, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jonathan Hacker, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C.; Alan S. Berman, the Berman Law Group, Woodland Hills, California, for appellants Motor Vehicle Casualty Company, Central National Insurance Company of Omaha, and Century Indemnity Company, successor to Cigna Specialty Insurance Company f/k/a California Union Insurance Company.
    Case Number: No. 10-56543 No. 10-56622

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 939 In the Matter of: THORPE INSULATION COMPANY, Debtor, MOTOR VEHICLE CASUALTY COMPANY; CENTRAL NATIONAL INS