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  • December 22, 2004 | The Recorder

    Tenet Healthcare Settles Bogus Heart Surgery Claims for $395 Million

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  • October 21, 2005 | The Recorder

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  • Gutierrez v. Wells Fargo Bank, NA

    Publication Date: 2012-12-26
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-12-26
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: William Alsup, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, M. Margaret McKeown, and William A. Fletcher, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jordan Elias, Richard M. Heimann, Roger N. Heller, Michael W. Sobol (argued), and Alison M. Stocking, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, California; Jae K. Kim and Richard D. McCune, McCune & Wright, LLP, Redlands, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
    for defendant: Robert A. Long, Jr. (argued), Mark William Mosier, Keith A. Noreika, and Stuart C. Stock, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C.; David M. Jolley and Sonya D. Winner, Covington & Burling, LLP, San Francisco, California; Emily Johnson Henn, Covington & Burling LLP, Redwood Shores, California for Defendant-Appellant. Julia B. Strickland, Lisa M. Simonetti, and David W. Moon, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae American Bankers Association and California Bankers Association. Nina F. Simon, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae Center for Responsible Lending, Consumer Federation of America, California Reinvestment Coalition, and Law Foundation of Silicon Valley.

    Case Number: No. 10-16959 No. 10-17468 No. 10-17689

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 14031VERONICA GUTIERREZ; ERIN WALKER; WILLIAM SMITH, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appe

  • March 23, 1999 | The Recorder

    The Exxon Valdez Spill: 10 Years Later

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  • July 18, 2012 | Litigation Daily

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  • April 6, 2012 | The Recorder

    Health Data Breaches Offer New Vein for Plaintiffs Lawyers to Tap

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  • July 29, 2013 | National Law Journal

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  • August 3, 2009 | The Associated Press

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  • July 13, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    NY Partners Switching Firms

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