• September 27, 2012 | National Law Journal

    In campaign donations, DLA Piper skews toward Obama, Kirkland votes for Romney

    Lawyers at the nation's biggest law firms are voting with their wallets — and Barack is the clear winner. His biggest supporters? Lawyers at DLA Piper, who have given

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  • August 4, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Diversity Helped Firms Make the Cut in Shell Contest

    Early last year, Shell Oil Co. sent word to law firms it had worked with in the past that it was hosting a beauty contest. The company planned to select a group of "strategic partners" � a nuc

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  • February 2, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Gary Friedman of Friedman Law Group

    The U.S. Supreme Court's increasingly tough stance on class actions nearly derailed Gary Friedman's $2 billion antitrust case against American Express. But Friedman, who founded Friedman La

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  • April 12, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Sullivan, Sidley, Simpson Advise$29 Billion Payment Company Deal First Data Corp., based in Greenwood Village, Colo., has agreed to be bought by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &

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  • September 4, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Orrick's Big-League Push

    The ingredients for building a marquee U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice include a deep bench, diverse cases, high-profile clients and a presence in the nation's highest cour

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  • January 10, 2013 | The Recorder

    A Courthouse of Their Own

    The first black policewoman in Oakland who went on to hold three presidential appointments. A Big Law partner who decided to scale back to raise her kids but still impressed the White

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  • November 6, 2006 | Alm

    Latham & Watkins Is the New Hot Spot for High Court Clerks

    Latham & Watkins is the "in" spot this year for recent U.S. Supreme Court clerks leaving the rarified atmosphere of the highest court in the land for the hands-on practice of law.T

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  • August 21, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Price Discrimination Claims Tossed in 19-Year-Old Case

    After nearly two decades of litigation against some of the biggest drug companies in the country, likely the last thing a group of individual pharmacies wanted to hear was that their claims w

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  • In Re 911 Terrorist Attacks; (Al Rajhi Bank, et al.), 11-3294-cv(L)

    Publication Date: 2013-04-18
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Cabranes, Raggi, CJJ, and Rakoff, DJ.**
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants on Rule 12(b)(6) Issues: Stephen A. Cozen, Elliott R. Feldman, Cozen O'Connor, Philadelphia, PA; Ronald L. Motley, Robert T. Haefele, Motley Rice, LLC, Mount Pleasant, SC; Carter G. Phillips, Richard Klingler, Sidley Austin, LLP, Washington, DC; Andrea Bierstein, Hanly Conroy Bierstein Sheridan Fisher & Hayes, LLP, New York, NY; Robert M. Kaplan, Ferber Chan Essner & Coller, LLP, New York, NY; James P. Kreindler, Justin T. Green, Andrew J. Maloney, III, Kreindler & Kreindler LLP, New York, NY; Jerry S. Goldman, Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C., New York, NY; Chris Leonardo, Adams Holcomb LLP, Washington, DC, on the brief, Sean P. Carter, Cozen O'Connor, Philadelphia, PA.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee Al Rajhi Bank: Nicole Erb, Matthew S. Leddicotte, on the brief, Christopher M. Curran, White & Case LLP, Washington, DC. For Defendant-Appellee Saudi American Bank: Henry Weisburg, Brian H. Polovoy, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee Dar Al-Maal Al-Islami Trust: James J. McGuire, Timothy J. McCarthy, Aimee R. Kahn, Daniel A. Mandell, Mishcon de Reya New York LLP, New York, NY. For Defendants-Appellees Dallah Al Baraka Group LLC & Saleh Abdullah Kamel.1: Martin F. McMahon, Martin F. McMahon & Associates, Washington, DC.

    Case Number: 11-3294-cv(L)

    Cite as: In Re 911 Terrorist Attacks; (Al Rajhi Bank, et al.), 11-3294-cv(L), NYLJ 1202596361799, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided April 16, 2013)Before: Cabranes,

  • April 9, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

    King & Spalding has hired WENDY HUANG WASZMER—former assistant chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division—as a partner in New York, wh

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