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  • October 5, 2007 | The Recorder

    Small Firms Find Profit in Nonprofits

    Gene Takagi has long been interested in nonprofits. He has a master's degree in nonprofit management and spent two years with the San Francisco SPCA, directing its medical and rehab divisions

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  • February 21, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Media Mashup: Weil Reps Reader's Digest in Bankruptcy, as NYT Taps Morgan Lewis for Globe Sale

    The first few weeks of 2013 have kept corporate lawyers from several Am Law 100 firms busy handling major media-related matters.A week after Weil, Gotshal & Manges advised General

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  • Joel Vig, Plaintiff v. The New York Hairspray Co., L.P., Defendant, 114613/07

    Publication Date: 2011-08-10
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    Court: Supreme Court, New York County, Part 35
    Judge: Justice Carol Robinson Edmead
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff: by Harvay W. Spizz, Spizz & Cooper, LLP, Mineola, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant: by Neil H. Abramson, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 114613/07

    Cite as: Vig v. The New York Hairspray Co., 114613/07, NYLJ 1202510626543, at *1 (Sup., NY, Decided August 1, 2011)Justice Carol Robinson Edmeadp cla

  • May 25, 2012 | Bloomberg

    Quick Dewey LeBoeuf downfall will take years to clean up in likely bankruptcy

    Dewey & LeBoeuf, a law firm with 103 years of history, collapsed in a matter of weeks. Cleaning up the debris may take years. A trickle of partner defections in March turned into a

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  • January 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Throw Me the Money

    Dewey Ballantine has been on a mission to bolster its finances. In October 2003 the firm slashed retirement benefits and dismissed 15 partners. Then, in October 2005, Dewey changed its capital

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  • May 9, 2005 | Alm

    2nd Circuit Panel Certifies Questions on Malpractice

    The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has asked New York's highest court to resolve uncertainty over the law on a legal malpractice claim. Citing two questions of New York law that are

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  • May 31, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Ninth Circuit Fuels Employee Misappropriation Debate

    Traditionally, claims against current and former employees for misappropriating confidential information by, for example, sending confidential company files to a personal e-mail address, have

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  • December 10, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Evaluating the Enforceability of Anti-Raiding Provisions

    Employment agreements often include restrictions barring people from soliciting, recruiting or "raiding" employees from their r workplaces. Unlike covenants not to compete with a

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  • August 17, 2005 | Legal Times

    Roberts Recuses Himself from ABA Case

    WASHINGTON � Judge John Roberts Jr. is bowing out of a high-stakes federal appeals court case involving the American Bar Association.The Supreme Court nominee last week recused himself

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  • In Re: Electronic Books Antitrust Litigation, 11 MD 2293

    Publication Date: 2012-05-18
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Denise Cote
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs: Jason Allen Zweig, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP (NYC), New York, NY. Steve W. Berman, George W. Sampson, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP (Seattle), Seattle, WA. Jeff D. Friedman, Shana Scarlett, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP (CA), Berkely, CA. Kit A. Pierson, Emmy L. Levens, Jeffrey B. Dubner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC (DC), Washington, DC. John Douglas Richards, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant Apple, Inc.: Daniel S. Floyd, Daniel G. Swanson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA. For Defendant HarperCollins Publishers LLC: Shepard Goldfein, Clifford H. Aronson, Paul M. Eckles, C. Scott Lent, Matthew M. Martino, Skadden, Armps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY. For Defendants Hachette Book Group, Inc. and Hachette Digital, Inc.: Walter B. Stuart, Samuel J. Rubin, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC d/b/a Macmillan: Joel M. Mitnick, Alexandra Shear, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant Penguin Group (USA), Inc.: Daniel Ferrel McInnis, David A. Donohoe, Allison Sheedy, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, D.C. For Defendants Simon & Schuster, Inc. and Simon & Schuster Digital Sales, Inc.: James W. Quinn, Yehudah L. Buchweitz, Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP, New York, NY. Helene D. Jaffee, Proskauer Rose LLP, Eleven Times Square, New York, NY. Martha E. Gifford, Law Office of Martha E. Gifford, Brooklyn, NY. *1
    Case Number: 11 MD 2293

    Cite as: In Re: Electronic Books Antitrust Litigation, 11 MD 2293, NYLJ 1202554340567, at *1 (SDNY, Decided May 15, 2012)District Judge Denise Cotep