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  • June 27, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Was Cleary "Swift-Boated"?

    All week we've been following Cleary Gottlieb's appeal of a 2007 sanctions order, which came in a case that pitted a vulture fund against Cleary's client, the Republic of Congo. But The American La

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  • In re Bellingham Insurance Agency, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-12-04
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-12-04
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Marsha J. Pechman, Chief District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judge, and Raner C. Collins, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas Arthur Paleveda; Law Offices of Nicholas Paleveda MBA J.D. LL.M, Bellingham, Washington, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Denice Moewes; Wood & Jones, Seattle, Washington, for Appellee. Alan Vanderhoff; Vanderhoff Law Group, San Diego, California, for Amicus Curiae Alan Vanderhoff. G. Eric Brunstad, Jr.; Dechert LLP, Hartford, Connecticut, for Amicus Curiae G. Eric Brunstad, Jr. Seth P. Waxman and Craig Goldblatt; Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae S. Todd Brown, G. Marcus Cole, Ronald D. Rotunda, and Todd J. Zywicki. John Anthony Edwards Pottow; University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Amicus Curiae John Anthony Edwards Pottow. Roberta Ann Colton; Trenam Kemker Attorneys, Tampa, Florida, for Amicus Curiae the Business Law Section of the Florida Bar. Paul D. Moore; Duane Morris LLP, Boston, Massachusetts, for Amici Curiae New CH YMC Acquisition LLC, Yellowstone Mountain Club, LLC, and Yellowstone Development, LLC. Lynne F. Riley; Riley Law Group LLC, Boston, Massachusetts; and Jessica D. Gabel; Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, for Amicus Curiae National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees. Nathaniel Garrett; Jones Day, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae Jones Day. Sarang Vijay Damle and Robert Loeb; U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae United States of America. Douglas Hallward-Driemeier; Ropes & Gray, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Marcia M. Tingley. Christopher Conant; Conant Law LLC, Denver, Colorado, for Amicus Curiae Timothy L. Blixseth. David Anthony Gaston; Law Offices of David Anthony Gaston, San Diego, California; and Edward Silverman; Sandler Lasry Laube Byer & Valdez, LLP, San Diego, California, for Amici Curiae Alejandro Diaz-Barba and Martha Margarita Barba de la Torre. Matthew Rutledge Schultz and Christopher Daniel Sullivan; Trepel Greenfield Sullivan & Draa LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae Concerned Chapter 7 and 11 Trustees and Plan Administrators.
    Case Number: No. 11-35162

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 13275In the Matter of: BELLINGHAM INSURANCE AGENCY, INC., Debtor,EXECUTIVE BENEFITS INSURANCE AGENCY, Appe

  • April 19, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Employee Benefits Carry Potential Liability

    HE TYPICAL buyer and its legal counsel may suffer great angst when they are unsure of their potential exposure to unfunded pension plan liability, multi-employer plan withdrawal obligations, unfund

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  • October 1, 2004 |

    Practice Tip: Web Site Hyperlinks as Adoptive Admissions

    Companies are increasingly communicating with consumers via the Internet. With the explosion of the Internet during the last decade, the company Web site has become one of the most comprehensive an

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  • December 5, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Vioxx Pact Isn't the End -- It's a Beginning

    While touted as a virtual end to Vioxx litigation, the recent $4.85 billion settlement struck by Merck & Co. Inc. to resolve products liability claims does not get the pharmaceutical giant

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  • February 15, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Doubt cast on enforceability of credit-default swaps

    The recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Hoosier Energy Rural Elec. Coop. Inc. v. Hancock Life Ins. Co., 582 F.3d 721 (7th Cir. 2009), affirmed a decision by t

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  • February 3, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

    Davis Polk & Wardwell has bolstered its white-collar criminal defense practice with the hire of GREG ANDRES in New York from the Department of Justice. Andres, who joins Davis Polk

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  • October 26, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Is Vioxx Defense Team Splintering?

    NEWARK, N.J. � For close to six weeks in the Atlantic City, N.J., Vioxx trial, lead defense lawyer Diane Sullivan's combative nature has been positively palpable. She has skirmished with the j

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  • April 28, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Citing Dire Situation, Defender Association Asks for Budget Increase

    The Defender Association of Philadelphia asked for a $1.7 million increase in its budget next year because the association says it will have to withdraw from representing indigent defendants in som

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  • November 16, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Electronic Registration

    In the early 1990s, a real estate finance industry task force recommended the creation of a system to eliminate the need to prepare and record mortgage assignments when trading mortgage loans.

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