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  • March 28, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    LLC Members May Bring Derivative Suit on LLC's Behalf

    In Tzolis v. Wolff,1 the New York Court of Appeals abrogated prior law and ruled that

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  • April 19, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Competitors lobby feds on NBC deal

    DirecTV Group Inc., Dish Network Corp., Bloomberg L.P. and NBC affiliates have all embarked on under-the-radar legal campaigns to influence government regulators now weighing approval of the $30 bi

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  • May 26, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    N.Y. Chief Judge Boosts Efforts to Tap Retired Lawyers for Pro Bono

    The New York court system has enlisted more than 120 retired lawyers since January to offer free legal advice and representation to poor New Yorkers in foreclosure, debt collection, housing,

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  • March 28, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Impasse: The 'Obscenity' of Labor Law

    Professing his inability to describe "obscenity," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart authored the famous line, "I don't know how to define it, but I know it when I see it."Impas

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  • November 1, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    Mr. Clean

    It was a festive day for Sven Erik Holmes. Family, friends, and colleagues surrounded him in the Tulsa federal courthouse last March as his official portrait was unveiled. It was the las

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  • March 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Second Acts

    November 5, 2009, was a good day for the Securities and Exchange Commission. At a press conference with the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan, new SEC enforcement dir

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  • June 4, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    The General Motors Corp. began the process Monday of fashioning a "New GM" - a smaller, more nimble version of the 101-year-old legendary automaker that focuses on the company'

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  • January 15, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    A Letter from President Ford

    Proudly hanging on a wall in my office is a framed letter from former President Gerald R. Ford dated Feb. 6, 1990. The personally signed letter was the culmination of a long journey for me.

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  • June 1, 2009 |

    What Went Wrong

    From the outside, Morgan & Finnegan’s future looked bright. It was January 2004, and the venerable IP firm had just signed a 20-year lease to take over the twentieth and twenty-first

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  • Chathas v. Local 134 IBEW

    Publication Date: 2000-10-25
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2000-10-18
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: POSNER, COFFEY, and KANNE, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: No. 99-4314

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. Posner, Circuit Judge. This appeal presents a tangle of jurisdictional, equitable, and labor- law issues. The plainti