• February 12, 2007 | Lawfirminc.

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    When the history of the modern law firm gets written -- remember, there are Ph.D. candidates born every day -- one of the key turning points will be the advent of the professional executive directo

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  • August 16, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Law Firms Place Bets on Vegas

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  • May 18, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Eight-Year-Old Subprime Class Action Against AmEx

    American Express, it seems, was a pioneer in the fine art of losing money in collateralized debt obligations. The company reported hundreds of millions in losses in CDOs and junk bonds--back in 2001!

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  • June 10, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Lippman Names 28 to Task Force to Expand Access to Legal Services

    Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman has named 28 people to a task force charged with spearheading a court-led effort to secure adequate state funding for the representation of low-income New Yorkers in

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  • November 6, 2012 | Litigation Daily

    Quinn Fends Off Another Bid to Derail $190 Billion FHFA Litigation

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan breached one more line of defense this week in the Federal Housing Finance Agency's campaign against the banks at the heart of the subprime crisis

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  • April 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Blackstone's Magician

    When Simpson Thacher first assigned corporate partner Joshua Ford Bonnie to lead The Blackstone Group L.P.'s historic initial public offering two years ago, the client was not exactly th

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  • April 14, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    The Great Search Forward: Baidu Finds Opportunity in Google's Crisis

    Victor Liang plows his metallic beige BMW sedan through Beijing's traffic on a crisp February morning as he describes how he came to be the first general counsel at a class="linelink" target="new"

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  • April 13, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    In re: Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation

    Decided April 6, 2007Before Newman, Sotomayor, and Hall, C.JJ.Petition for rehearing of December 5, 2006, decision reversing District Court's grant of motion for class certificatio

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  • January 6, 2010 | National Law Journal

    New chief executive partner takes reins at Chapman and Cutler

    Chapman and Cutler, a Chicago-based financial services law firm with 211 lawyers, this month named Timothy Mohan chief executive partner after Richard Cosgrove stepped down because of a two-ter

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  • Mattel, Inc. v. MGA Entertainment, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-07-22
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2010-07-22
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel P. Collins (argued), Kelly M. Klaus, Aimee Feinberg and Mark Yohalem, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California; and John B. Quinn, Susan R. Estrich, Michael T. Zeller and B. Dylan Proctor, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the appellee. Simon J. Frankel, Margaret D. Wilkinson and Steven D. Sassaman, Covington & Burling LLP, San Francisco, California; Steven M. Freeman and Steven C. Sheinberg, Anti-Defamation League, New York, New York; and Michelle N. Deutchman, Anti-Defamation League, Los Angeles, California, for amici Anti-Defamation League et al.
    for defendant: E. Joshua Rosenkranz (argued) and Lisa T. Simpson, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, New York; Annette L. Hurst and Warrington S. Parker III, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California; and Thomas J. Nolan and Jason D. Russell, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the appellants.

    Case Number: No. 09-55673

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 9316MATTEL, INC., a Delaware corporation, Defendant-counter-claimantAppellee, v.MGA ENTERTAI