• January 4, 2010 | Focus Europe

    The Credit Crunch After-Party

    In 2002 a German bank in the backwater of Kiel, on the shores of the Baltic Sea, sought to boost its returns by investing in a synthetic credit default obligation (CDO) issued by the Swiss megabank

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  • March 9, 2001 | Corporate Counsel

    What Would Ben Do?

    When Ben Heineman asks for help, lawyers gather.Last October, Laurence Tribe put down his Harvard Law School lecture notes and took off for Fairfield, Conn. There he met up with Carter

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  • December 11, 2012 | Litigation Daily

    Rhode Island Judge Rejects Tobacco Cos. Challenge Against City Bans

    The cigarette industry has hit a snag in its First Amendment crusade against anti-tobacco ordinances. In a 45-page de

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  • People v Jenkins

    Publication Date: 2007-03-06
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    SCHMIDT, J.P., KRAUSMAN, COVELLO and BALKIN, JJ. The People, etc., respondent, v Eric Jenkins, appellant. (Ind. No. 2213/92) Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y.

  • NAWROCKI, MICHAEL v THE COSTAL CORPORATION

    Publication Date: 2007-11-09
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    Case Number: 1187

    SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department 1187 CA 06-02187 PRESENT: HURLBUTT, J.P., MARTOCHE,

  • Figuereo-Sanchez v. U.S.

    Publication Date: 2012-05-01
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    Court: 11th cir.
    Judge: Martin, J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph P. Rockers, Goodwin Procter, Boston; Robert C. Khayat Jr., King & Spalding, Atlanta
    for defendant: Karin Bethany Hoppmann, Robert E. O'Neill and Sara C. Sweeney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Tampa

    Case Number: 10-14235

  • December 14, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    High Court Rejects Indictment In N.Y. Over Ohio Testimony

    ALBANY - The former chief executive of the Federated Department Stores cannot be prosecuted in Manhattan for the alleged perjured testimony he gave to the New York Attorney General's Office fr

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  • June 5, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Decision of interestJudge SweetJudge SweetDGM INVESTMENTS, INC. v. NEW YORK FUTURES EXCHANGE, INC. The defendants New York Futures Exchange, Inc., Board o

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  • July 1, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    The 2011 Diversity Scorecard

    Each firm's diversity score was calculated by adding its percentage of minority U.S. lawyers to its percentage of minority U.S. partners. For an explanation of our methodology, a list of nonrespond

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  • February 24, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Top Cases of 2003: Corporate Crime

    Martha StewartAmid the waves of corporate scandals that crashed on the doorsteps of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan over the last two years, the case that received t

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