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December 6, 2006 | The American Lawyer

IPO Case Hits Big Snag At Second Circuit

A federal appeals court Tuesday vacated class certification in six key cases in the massive litigation over dot-com era initial public offerings�a potentially devastating setback for plaintiff

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Freidus v. Barclays Bank, 11-2665-cv

Publication Date: 2013-08-22
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Judge: Before: Pooler and B.D. Parker, C.JJ.**
Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Mark Solomon, Andrew J. Brown, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, San Diego, CA; Samuel H. Rudman, David A. Rosenfeld, Mario Alba, Jr., Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Melville, NY; Ramzi Abadou, Eli R. Greenstein, Stacey M. Kaplan, Erik D. Peterson, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP, San Francisco, CA, on the briefs, Joseph D. Daley, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA.
for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees Barclays Bank PLC, Barclays PLC and the Individual Defendants-Appellees: David H. Braff, Adam T. Kirgis, on the brief, Michael T. Tomaino, Jr., Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY. For Defendants-Appellees Barclays Capital Securities Limited, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Incorporated, Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC, A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Goldman, Sachs & Co., KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., RBC Dain Rauscher Inc., Suntrust Capital Markets, Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and Banc of America Securities, LLC: Jay B. Kasner, on the brief, Scott D. Musoff, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY.
Case Number: 11-2665-cv

Cite as: Freidus v. Barclays Bank, 11-2665-cv, NYLJ 1202616370944, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided August 19, 2013) 11-2665-cv Before: Pooler and B.D. Par

August 9, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Summer Hiring: Big Firms Slimmed Down in 2013

Law students seeking coveted positions as summer associates at large firms had slightly fewer job openings available to them in 2013 than they did last year, according to The American L

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January 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Big Suits

BONDI V. CITIGROUP The campaign of chief executive Enrico Bondi to recover money for Parmalat Finanziaria SpA suffered a heavy

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November 19, 2012 | International

Silicon Valley Firms Seek a Bigger Piece of China's Technology Pie

In Silicon Valley, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Cooley are well known as go

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January 22, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Oprah Interview Marks Beginning of Armstrong's Next Legal Battle

Lance Armstrong's decadelong fight to clear his name of performance-enhancing drug use officially ended this past week with a much-publicized interview with Oprah Winfrey."I vi

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May 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

Growing Pains

NEW YORK � Since 1986, when The American Lawyer first published a list of the 100 highest-grossing firms in the United States, the total number of lawyers in The Am Law 100 has almost tripled.

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June 17, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Belnick Defense Tries to Show Witness Had Problems of His Own

Defense lawyers for former Tyco International Ltd. General Counsel Mark A. Belnick tried to show Tuesday that a former Tyco director who testified for the prosecution had self-dealings of his

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November 15, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Before Record-Breaking Settlement, Big Firms Helped BP Raise Cash

BP, the energy giant formerly known as British Petroleum, has agreed to plead guilty to 14 criminal charges and pay $4.5 billion in fines and other payments to the federal government as a res

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December 7, 2001 | New York Law Journal

Mixture of Growth, Slowdown Is Seen

To look at some of the growth statistics in this year's NYLJ 100, you'd hardly know these law firms were facing the worst downturn to hit the legal profession in a decade.The fir

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