• May 29, 2013 | Bloomberg

    Payday Lenders Evading Rules Change to Installment Loans

    For three years, payday lenders have been bracing for dedicated scrutiny from a U.S. agency for the first time. One way they're getting ready: switching to loans designed to fall outside the

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  • Salameh v. Tarsadia Hotel

    Publication Date: 2013-08-13
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-08-13
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dana M. Sabraw, District Judge, Presiding Before: Ronald M. Gould and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges, and Sharon L. Gleason, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Aguirre (argued), Christopher S. Morris, and Maria C. Severson, Aguirre, Morris & Severson LLP, San Diego, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants. Frederick H. Kranz (argued) and Lynn T. Galuppo, Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, Irvine, California; Jonathan S. Kitchen and Ali P. Hamidi, Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendants-Appellees Tarsadia Hotels, Tushar Patel, B.U. Patel, Gregory Casserly, 5th Rock, LLC, MKP One, LLC, and Gaslamp Holdings, LLC.
    for defendant: Daniel M. Benjamin (argued) and Thomas W. McNamara, Ballard Spahr LLP, San Diego, California, for Defendant-Appellee Playground Destination Properties, Inc. Mark D. Cahn, Jacob H. Stillman, Randall W. Quinn, William K. Shirey, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Securities and Exchange Commission. Benjamin G. Shatz, Timi A. Hallem, and Jason T. Taketa, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae The Real Estate Roundtable and The National Association of Realtors.

    Case Number: No. 11-55479

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 8843 TAMER SALAMEH; REAL ESTATE 4 HOSPITALITY, LLC, a California limited liability company; ALEKSEY KATS; DIANA KATS; MITCHELL J.

  • October 26, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Cozen Tops Mid-Level Associates Survey

    They have been in the business for a few years. Some may have even been a part of a few different firms. They are new enough to remember what they want and seasoned enough to know what they do

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  • March 25, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    No Easy Answers in Wolf Block's Demise

    What took more than 100 years to build will take only 60 days to break down. For the next two months, Wolf Block will wind down its practice and look to relocate the 300 attorneys and hundr

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  • July 8, 2013 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    FIRM NAME CHANGE Greenblatt, Pierce, Engle, Funt & Flores (Philadelphia): Michael Engle joins as name partner and will

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  • October 19, 2009 | National Law Journal

    DOJ Outlines Changes After Backlash Over Handling of Stevens Case

    Under fire for its handling of the criminal case against former Sen. Ted Stevens, the Justice Departm

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  • November 29, 2004 | Legal Times

    Civil Actions

    The following selected cases were recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Greenbelt division; and the U

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  • January 14, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Banks believe they can live with new mortgage-underwriting rule

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new "ability-to-repay" regulations contain a key legal protection for mortgage lenders, leaving their attorneys cautiously optimistic that t

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  • October 17, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    No Deal Downturn for Skadden, as Firm Lands Roles on Spate of Major Transactions

    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, a firm whose reputation for transactional work is so strong it was a href="http://www.thedeal.

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  • March 19, 2008 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Elliott Greenleaf Office Has a Busy Beginning in Wilmington

    The Wilmington office of Elliott Greenleaf in the Brandywine Building still sports unpacked boxes and unhung pictures, despite having opened its doors in December, evidence of how busy attorn

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