• October 22, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Ex-Milberg Partner To Be Sentenced Next Week

    Sentencing memos can make for sad reading. Take the case of David Bershad, the ex-Milberg partner who pled guilty last year for his role in paying kickbacks to plaintiffs. In anticipation of his sente

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  • Pollard v. The CEO Group, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-06-07
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    Date Filed: 2010-06-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John F. Preis, University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Virginia, and Charles Francis Carbone, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Kenneth Johnson, Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith, LLP, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellees Wackenhut-The GEO Group, Inc., Margaret Minneci, Robert Spack, Bob D. Steifer, and Becky Maness. David J. Wilson, Manning & Marder Kass Ellrod Ramirez LLP, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee Jonathan E. Akanno.

    Case Number: No. 07-16112

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 7000 RICHARD LEE POLLARD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THE GEO GROUP, INC., Erroneously S

  • December 26, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    University of Texas Health Science Center v. Schroeder

    Click here for the full text of this decisionFACTS: The appellant, the University of Texas Health

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  • January 3, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    More Firms Paying Higher Associate Bonuses

    A skittish economy prompted fears among associates that law firms would pull the plug on "boom-year" bonuses. But those fears proved unfounded. Firms may have been agonizingly slow to act

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  • ODL Services, Inc. v. Conocophillips Co.

    Publication Date: 2008-08-18
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    Date Filed: 2008-08-14
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 1
    Judge: Tim Taft Justice
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    Case Number: 01-08-00020-CV

    Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of MandamusOPINIONBy interlocutory appeal and petition for writ of mandamus, appellant and relator, ODL Services, Inc. ("ODL"), challenges the trial cour

  • May 7, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Firms Hunting for Stars Re-Examine Partner Compensation

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton managing partner Mark Walker is old-school when it comes to partner compensation. He sees no reason to change Cleary's seniority-based lockstep scheme, in which

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  • March 13, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Federal Circuit Scrambles Lower Court's Egg Ruling: No Compensation for Regulatory Takings When Public Health Is at Stake

    The Litigation Daily doesn’t get many opportunities to weigh in on the law of regulatory takings or the "breaker market" for eggs in the United States. So when our colleagues at Legal

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  • Capital Ventures International v. Republic of Argentina

    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
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    Date Filed: 2011-07-20
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: Gerard E. Lynch, Circuit Judge:
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    Case Number: Docket Nos. 10-4520-cv(Lead), 10-4523-cv(Con), 10-4511-cv(Con), 10-4834-cv(Con)

    10-4520-cv (L)Capital Ven International v. Republic of ArgentinaHeard: December 16, 2010Before: LEVAL, CALABRESI and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.We conclude that appellant Capital Ven

  • October 28, 2002 | Legal Times

    Chart: The Next 50

    103 Alston & Bird Washington, D.C. Atlanta 45 103 Kelley, Drye & Warren Washington, D.C. New York 45 103 Shook, Hardy & Bacon Washington, D.C. Kansas City, Mo. 45

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  • February 1, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Little Theodor's Big Troubles

    Equatorial Guinea is a nation of under 1 million people that has been gushing oil for 15 years. It enjoys a real per capita GDP higher than France's, according to the World Bank

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