• Gerling Global Reinsurance Corp. v. Low

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2001-02-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Goodwin, Graber, and Paez, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth S. Geller, et al.
    for defendant: Frank Kaplan, et al.

    Case Number: No. 00-16163

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. GRABER, Circuit Judge: Plaintiffs are three insurance companies and one trade organization

  • January 31, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Getting Fired: Don't Deal With the In-House Counsel and Deal With It Publicly?

    This is the kind of bad review that in-house counsel never want to hear. Although, hey, it's impossible to please everybody right? Waaaaaay back in May 2008, Paul Hastings fired senio

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  • King County v. IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, 09 Civ. 8387 (SAS)

    Publication Date: 2010-11-04
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs King County, Washington and Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corporation: Anne L. Box, Esq., Patrick J. Coughlin, Esq., Daniel S. Drosman, Esq., Nathan R. Lindell, Esq., Jessica T. Shinnefield, Esq., David C. Walton, Esq., Darryl J. Alvarado, Esq., X Jay Alvarez, Esq., Christina A. Royce, Esq., Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, California Samuel H. Rudman, Esq., David A. Rosenfeld, Esq., Robert M. Rothman, Esq., Jarrett S. Charo, Esq., Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Melville, New York Luke O. Brooks, Esq., Jason C. Davis, Esq., Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Francisco, California
    for defendant: For Defendants Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. International Limited: Antonio Jorge Perez-Marques, Esq., Davis Polk & Wardwell L.L.P., New York, NY James P. Rouhandeh, Esq., Davis Polk & Wardwell L.L.P., New York, NY For Defendants IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG and IKB Credit Asset Management, GmbH: John D. McFerrin-Clancy, Esq., Zachary D. Rosenbaum, Lowenstein Sandler PC, New York, New York Thomas E. Redburn, Jr., Esq., Jennifer Jane McGruther, Esq., Lowenstein Sandler PC, Roseland, New Jersey For Defendants Moody's Investors Service Limited and Moody's Investors Service, Inc.: James J. Coster, Esq., Justin E. Klein, Esq., James J. Regan, Esq., Joshua M. Rubins, Esq., Aaron M. Zeisler, Esq., Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP, New York, New York For Defendant The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. d/b/a Standard & Poor's Rating Services: Floyd Abrams, Esq., Andrea R. Butler, Esq., Jason M. Hall, Esq., Brian T Markley, Esq., Dean I. Ringel, Esq., Tammy L. Roy, Esq., Adam N. Zurofsky, Esq., Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, New York, New York For Defendant Fitch, Inc.: Andrew J. Ehrlich, Esq., Martin Flumenbaum, Esq., Roberta A. Kaplan, Esq., Mark S. Silver, Esq., Tobias J. Stern, Esq., Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, New York For Defendant Stefan Ortseifen: Thomas S. Wiswall, Esq., Phillips Lytle LLP, Rochester, New York For Defendant Winfried Reinke: Fran M. Jacobs, Esq., Duane Morris LLP, New York, NY

    Case Number: 09 Civ. 8387 (SAS)

    Cite as: King County v. IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, 09 Civ. 8387 (SAS), NYLJ 1202474373592, at *1 (SDNY, Decided October 29, 2010)District Judge Shira A. Sch

  • June 20, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Bolstering Arbitration, Supreme Court Sides with AmEx

    Tony Mauro is Supreme Court Correspondent for The National Law Journal, an American Lawyer affiliate.Continuing its warm embrace of arbitration and its disdain for class act

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  • April 12, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Stevens, High Court Liberal Leader, to Retire

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a one-time centrist maverick who became a powerful leader of the court's liberal wing, announced his retirement on April 9, just 11 days short of his 9

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  • March 29, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Justices to Consider a Border Battle Over Lawsuits

    "Foreign-cubed" is the name of the latest legal nemesis that keeps lawyers for companies ranging from Toyota to Vivendi up at night. The term refers to securities class action li

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  • June 4, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Ruling Muddies Waters in MBS Trustee Class Actions

    Over the past year we've been watching a handful of financial crisis class actions in which investors sued banks that served as mortg

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  • July 26, 1999 | The Recorder

    Fee-Fight Recipe: A Bunch of Lawyers, $30 Million

    How sweet it is: the Los Angeles office of Graham & James has at last secured victory in a drawn-out patent case that could bring in a contingency fee of more than $30 million. So why isn't eve

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  • Elliott Associates v. Porsche Automobil Holding, 10 Civ. 0532

    Publication Date: 2011-01-04
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: Before: Harold Baer, Jr.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10 Civ. 0532 (HB)

    Cite as: Elliott Associates v. Porsche Automobil Holding, 10 Civ. 0532, NYLJ 1202476997376, at *1 (SDNY, Decided December 30, 2010)Before: Harold Baer, Jr.

  • April 2, 2010 | The Recorder

    Supreme Court Ruling Opens Courts to More Class Actions

    WASHINGTON — In a significant blow to business, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that certain class actions barred or limited by state laws may proceed in federal courts. In

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