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  • January 16, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Breaking Away

    Jonathan Putnam was no stranger to competition when he joined Kirkland & Ellis in 1993. He beat out 500 students to graduate first in his class from Harvard Law School, won a coveted posit

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  • August 1, 2009 | Legaltech News

    Web Hubs

    This month we review three noteworthy new websites. The first is a networking site for lawyers and other professionals, HubStreet, www.hubstreet.com — which evolved from a face-to-face netwo

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  • United States v. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 41-1395

    Publication Date: 2009-05-21
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    Date Filed: 2009-05-13
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: William Conner
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    Case Number: 41-1395

    District Judge William C. Conner U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Appearances: Attorneys for Defendant American Society of Composers, A

  • May 7, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Is Shedding Partners the Right Way to Improve Profitability?

    Citigroup Private Bank, one of the country's leading law firm lenders, used to pay close attention to a metric that it called "partner defections." Stability in a firm's partnership was considered

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  • Conopco, Inc. v. Roll Int'l

    Publication Date: 2000-11-08
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    Date Filed: 2000-11-03
    Court: 2nd Cir.
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    Case Number: 00-7012

    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUITAugust Term, 1999(Argued: June 2, 2000 Decided: November 03, 2000)Docket No. 00-7012 CONOPCO, INC.,

  • July 22, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Eolas, McKool Strike Out in Web Patent Appeal

    Many in the tech world stood at attention back in 2009, when Eolas Technologies filed a patent suit against 20-plus companies&md

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  • December 9, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    New York Firms Increase Ranks in 2002

    Judging by some of the numbers in this year's NYLJ 100 survey of New York's largest law offices, a booming economy is not the only spur to law firm growth. At many of the city's top firms, a l

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  • April 7, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Clean SOX

    The Sarbanes-Oxley Act sounded like a good idea last summer -- it was an essential first step toward rebuilding trust in America's corporations. In the ensuing months, the general succumbed to

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  • Sheldon et al., Plaintiff v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation et al.*, Defendant, 81 F.2d 49 (1936)

    Publication Date: 2012-11-19
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before L. Hand, Swan, and Chase, C. JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellants: Arthur F. Driscoll, Edward J. Clarke, and Sidney G. Rosenbloom, all of New York City, of counsel, O'Brien, Driscoll & Raftery, of New York City.
    for defendant: For Appellees: Louis D. Frohlich, David O. Decker, and Herman Finkelstein, all of New York City, of counsel, Nathan Burkan and J. Robert Rubin, both of New York City.
    Case Number: 81 F.2d 49 (1936)

    Cite as: Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn, 81 F.2d 49 (1936), NYLJ 1202578800629, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided January 17, 1936)Before L. Hand, Swan, and Chase, C

  • In Re: UBS AG ERISA Litigation, 08 Civ. 6696 (RJS)

    Publication Date: 2011-03-31
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Richard J. Sullivan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Plaintiffs are represented by Thomas James McKenna, Gainey & McKenna, LLP, New York, NY; David Lloyd Wales, Mark Rifkin, and Martin E. Restituyo, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, New York, NY; Todd S. Collins, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA; Jeffrey Alan Klafter, Klafter, Olsen & Lesser, LLP, Rye Brook, NY; and Ellen T. Noteware, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA.
    for defendant: Defendants are represented by Robert Joseph Giuffra, Jr., Maite Aquino, Matthew Alexander Schwartz, and Suhana S. Han, Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, New York, NY
    Case Number: 08 Civ. 6696 (RJS)

    Cite as: In Re: UBS AG ERISA Litigation, 08 Civ. 6696, NYLJ 1202488491690, at *1 (SDNY, Decided March 24, 2011)District Judge Richard J. Sullivanp class="d