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  • November 4, 2002 | Legal Times

    Civil Actions

    The following selected cases were recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Eastern District of Virginia, and in Greenbelt, Md. This information was provid

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  • July 30, 1999 | Alm

    Firms Get Share of Tobacco Settlement

    BOSTON -- Five law firms that participated in the state's lawsuit against the tobacco industry were awarded $775 million in fees and expenses Thursday.The Tobacco Fee Arbitration Panel's dec

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  • Bank of N.Y. Mellon v. Commerzbank Capital Funding Trust II, DEFAX Case No. D65462 (Del. Supr. En banc March 19, 2013) Jacobs, J. (38 pages).

    Publication Date: 2013-04-10
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    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
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    Case Number: D65462

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  • December 2, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Accolades

    Helping Nonprofit Businesses For outstanding pro bono business counsel given to nonprofit organizations, the Lawyers Alliance for New York presented its annual Corners

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  • December 4, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Lamb Again? This Time, Apollo Company Taps Skadden to Defend Delaware Chancery Court Case

    Earlier this week Carl Icahn's High River Limited Partnership filed a suit in Delaware Chancery Court again

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  • December 22, 2009 | The Recorder

    Who's the King of the Valley? Oracle Leads in Spending on D.C. Lobbying

    SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle Chief Financial Officer Safra Catz opened her roomy Los Altos Hills home to Sen. Barbara Boxer for a high-tech, exec-studded fundraiser on Nov. 7. The diminutive Bo

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  • May 9, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Madoff Trustee Picard Drops $3.8 Billion in Claims, Secures Cooperation from Fairfield Feeder Fund Liquidators

    The past few days brought some uncharacteristic bad news for Baker & Hostletler partner Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee in the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities Chapter 11. Two fe

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  • Fairfield Sentry Ltd, 10-13164 (BRL)

    Publication Date: 2011-05-27
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    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District
    Judge: Bankruptcy Judge Burton R. Lifland
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for the Foreign Representatives: David J. Molton, May Orenstein, Daniel Saval, Kerry L. Quinn, Brown Rudnick LLP, New York, NY. Attorneys for HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, HSBC Securities Services (Luxembourg) SA, HSBC Bank USA NA (sued here as HSBC Bank USA), HSBC Private Bank (C.I.) Limited (sued here as HSBC Private Bank (Guernsey) Ltd), HSBC Private Banking Nominee 1 (Jersey) Limited (sued here as FS/HSBC Private Banking Nom), Robinson & Co., Caceis Bank Luxembourg, CDC IXIS, Citibank NA London, Citibank (Switzerland) AG, Citigroup, Citivic Nominees Limited, BNP Paribas Securities Services Luxembourg, BGL BNP Paribas (sued here as BNP Paribas Luxembourg SA), BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA, BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA Ex Fortis, & BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA Private: By: Thomas J. Moloney, CLEARY Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendant Safra National Bank of New York and BanqueSafraLuxembourg: By: Robinson B. Lacy, Jeffrey T. Scott, Joshua Fritsch, Yavar Bathaee, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 10-13164 (BRL)

    Cite as: Fairfield Sentry Ltd, 10-13164 (BRL), NYLJ 1202495309817, at *1 (Bankruptcy Court, NY, Decided May 23, 2011)Bankruptcy Judge Burton R. Liflandp cl

  • January 13, 2003 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible

    VINSON & ELKINS FIRES BACK AT LERACHIn a court filing last week, Vinson & Elkins vehemently denied claims that the firm participated in the financial trickery and all

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  • July 5, 2007 | Legal Times

    As Firms Grow, Who Can't Afford to Stand Still?

    The courtship started because a friend told a friend there might be good chemistry. A time and place was set to meet. The two hit it off instantly.Dating and law firm mergers. It's a running

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