• October 4, 2004 |

    Spending Wisely on Technology

    Law firms are starting to spend on technology again, focusing on projects that will help the enterprise run more smoothly and efficiently. Not that many years ago, before the economic downturn

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  • In re Western States Wholesale Natural Gas Antitrust Litigation

    Publication Date: 2013-04-11
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-04-10
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Philip M. Pro, District Judge, Presiding Before: Carlos T. Bea and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges, and Willliam K. Sessions, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Gille Bacon (argued), William E. Quirk, and Gregory M. Bentz, Polsinelli Shughart PC, Kansas City, Missouri, for Appellants Learjet, Inc., et al., Heartland Regional Medical Center, et al., Breckenridge Brewery of Colorado, LLC, et al., Reorganized FLI, Inc., and Sinclair Oil Corporation. Robert L. Gegios, Alexander T. Pendleton, and William E. Fischer, Kohner, Mann & Kailas, S.C., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for Wisconsin Plaintiffs-Appellants. Mark E. Haddad (argued), Michelle B. Goodman, and Nitin Reddy, Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees CMS Energy Corp., CMS Energy Resources Management Co., and Cantera Gas Company.
    for defendant: Michael J. Kass and Douglas R. Tribble, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendants-Appellees Dynegy Marketing & Trade, Dynegy Illinois, Inc., DMT G.P. L.L.C., and Dynegy GP Inc. Joshua D. Lichtman, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Los Angeles, California, and Roxanna A. Manuel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, for Defendant-Appellee Coral Energy Resources, L.P. Joel B. Kleinman, Adam Proujanski, and Lisa M. Kaas, Dickstein Shapiro LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendants­Appellees Duke Energy Trading and Marketing, L.L.C. and Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC. Robert B. Wolinsky, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C., and Steven J. Routh, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees American Electric Power Company, Inc. and AEP Energy Services, Inc. Brent A. Benoit and Stacy Williams, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, Houston, Texas, for Defendants-Appellees El Paso Corporation, El Paso Merchant Energy, L.P., and El Paso Marketing, L.P. Amelia A. Fogleman, Oliver S. Howard, and Craig A. Fitzgerald, Gable Gotwals, A Professional Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Defendants-Appellees ONEOK, Inc., ONEOK Energy Services Company L.P. J. Gregory Copeland and Mark R. Robeck, Baker Botts LLP, Houston, Texas, for Defendant-Appellee Reliant Energy Services, Inc. Graydon Dean Luthey, Jr. and Sarah Jane Gillett, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Defendants-Appellees The Williams Companies, Inc., Williams Merchant Services Company, Inc., Williams Power Company, Inc., and Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Company. Michael John Miguel, K & L Gates LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees Xcel Energy, Inc., e prime, inc., e prime Energy Marketing, Inc., and Northern States Power Company.

    Case Number: No. 11-16786, No. 11-16798, No. 11-16799, No. 11-16802, No. 11-16818, No. 11-16821, No. 11-16869, No. 11-16876, No. 11-16880

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 3875IN RE: WESTERN STATES WHOLESALE NATURAL GAS ANTITRUST LITIGATION,LEARJET, INC.; TOPEKA UNIFIED S

  • June 4, 2004 | The Recorder

    General Counsel Compensation in the Crosshairs?

    New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's recent lawsuit against Richard Grasso, the highly paid former head of the New York Stock Exchange, marks a turning point in executive compensation.

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  • June 8, 2012 | The American Lawyer

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

    On the heels of celebrating its one-year anniversary, McDermott Will & Emery's Paris office has gained BERTRAND DELAFAYE, A

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  • February 9, 2010 | The Recorder

    Staying Cool Under the Media Spotlight

    It's no surprise that lawyers who have spent their careers calmly standing up in court arguing cases where lives and fortunes are at stake would have a sense of how to successfully manage press iss

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  • November 3, 2008 | The Recorder

    Weighing Attorney-Client Arbitration

    SAN FRANCISCO — La Jolla physician Richard Schatz wants his $170,000 fee dispute with Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis to go before a jury. But the l

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  • May 2, 2002 | The Minority Law Journal

    Measuring Up (and Down)

    The good news first: Last year the percentage of minority attorneys at the nation's largest firms finally broke into the double digits -- 10.1 percent, up from 9.7 percent in 2000. The n

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  • November 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    New Business

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  • July 25, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Latest TARP Report Claims Simpson Overbilled Program

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has overbilled the federal government nearly $100,000 for work related to the U.S. Department of

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  • March 28, 2003 | The Recorder

    GCs Are Seriously Shopping For Value

    Law firms fighting in a tight economy for opportunities to serve as outside counsel are finding they have to work harder and provide more perks.That's the verdict from 16 general couns

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