• November 8, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    High-End Plaintiffs Cases an Uneasy Fit at Defense Firms

    In the end, multimillion-dollar contingency fee recoveries couldn't keep Hartford, Conn.-based Robinson & Cole and the chairman and founder of its nationally prominent mass tort group together

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  • People v. Puentes

    Publication Date: 2010-12-21
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    Date Filed: 2010-12-20
    Court: C.A. 6th
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff/Respondent: The People: Edmund G. Brown Jr. ,Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Seth K. Schalit, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Scott C. Mather, Deputy Attorney General
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendant/Appellant: Benjamin Puentes, Under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Syda Kosofsky

    Case Number: No. H034546

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 15790THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BENJAMIN PUENTES, Defendant and Appellant. /

  • In re Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Securities Litigation

    Publication Date: 2012-09-06
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    Date Filed: 2012-09-06
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Jeffrey S. White, District Judge, Presiding Before: Procter Hug, Jr., Betty B. Fletcher, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sanford Svetcov, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Francisco, California, for the appellant.
    for defendant: John C. Dwyer, Cooley LLP, Palo Alto, California, for the appellees.

    Case Number: No. 10-17619

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 10365 In re: RIGEL PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION, INTER-LOCAL PENSION FUND GCC/IBT, on behalf of

  • February 16, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    City Is Denied Injunction to Stop Group Bike Rides Critical Mass ? the group bicycle ride through Manhattan on the last Friday of each month in support of bicyclists' and pedes

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  • Health Net, Inc. v. RLI Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2012-05-23
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    Date Filed: 2012-05-22
    Court: C.A. 2nd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Covington & Burling, David B. Goodwin, Michael S. Greenberg and Jeffrey�M.�Davidson; Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and Reynold L. Siemens for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Michael R. Davisson, Susan Koehler Sullivan and Michael M. Walsh for Defendants and Respondents, RLI Insurance Company; P.K. Schrieffer, Paul K. Schrieffer and Stephen�C.�Bass for Defendant and Respondent, Certain Underwriters at Lloyd?s, London; Waxler?Carner?Brodsky, Andrew J. Waxler and Gretchen�S. Carner for Defendant and Intervenor, American International Specialty Lines Insurance Company nka Chartis Specialty Insurance Company; Troutman Sanders, Wallace A. Christensen, Robert M. Pozin, Jennifer�Mathis, Melissa�J. Perez and Jacqueline S. Treu for Defendant and Intervenor, Executive Risk Specialty Insurance Company.

    Case Number: No. B224884

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 5594 HEALTH NET, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. RLI INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Defen

  • October 17, 2005 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Pullman & Comley Adds Offices

    Bridgeport, Conn.-based Pullman & Comley is branching out in Fairfield County and over the border into Westchester County, New York -- although it's doing so in a most unusual way.

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  • August 30, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Next Big Push for Tort Reform

    Tort reform groups and lawyers representing some of the nation's largest corporations are working with legislators in several states to draft amendments to consumer protection laws that would

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  • United States v. Valdavinos-Torres

    Publication Date: 2012-12-20
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    Date Filed: 2012-12-20
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Anthony J. Battaglia, District Judge, Presiding Before: Alfred T. Goodwin and Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, Circuit Judges, and Jack Zouhary, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charlotte E. Kaiser (argued), Bruce R. Castetter, United States Attorneys Office, San Diego, California for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: James Fife, Federal Defenders of San Diego, San Diego, California for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 11-50529

    .Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 13881UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appelle

  • December 5, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Contamination Risk

    A municipal water district whose 10 wells are allegedly threatened by contaminants from a series of gasoline spills in the 1980's and 1990's may pursue a dozen causes of action against the com

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  • May 31, 2012 | The Recorder

    Justices Ready to Help Juvenile Lifers, But Not Sure How

    Appearing Thursday before the California Supreme Court, David Durchfort launched his argument about juvenile sentencing with a bold flourish. "My client will be eligible for parole exactl

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