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  • August 1, 2001 |

    Bankruptcy Boom Boosts Demand for Lawyers

    Few people are more aware of the high demand for bankruptcy lawyers than Bruce R. Zirinsky. Since the start of the year, the head of the financial restructuring practice at New York's

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  • February 2, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    Williams v. Houston Firemen's Relief and Retirement Fund

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  • February 27, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Contract Law Found to Govern Disposition of Frozen Embryos in Divorce

    By Erica Lehrer Goldman When a couple divorces, who owns their frozen embryos Can a woman have them implanted despite her ex-husband's objections In Roman v. Roman, a case of f

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  • Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Rincon Reservation v. Schwarzenegger

    Publication Date: 2010-04-20
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    Date Filed: 2010-04-20
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kimberly A. Demarchi, Lewis & Roca LLP, Phoenix, Arizona; Scott D. Crowell, Crowell Law Offices, Kirkland, Washington, for the plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants.
    for defendant: Peter H. Kaufman, Deputy Attorney General of the State of California, San Diego, California; Marc Le Forestier, Deputy Attorney General of the State of California, Sacramento, California, for the defendants-appellants-cross-appellees.
    Case Number: No. 08-55809

    reallCite as 10 C.D.O.S. 4856RINCON BAND OF LUISENO MISSION INDIANS OF THE RINCON RESERVATION, AKA Rincon San Luiseno Band of Mission Indians, AKA Rincon Band of

  • April 30, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    ABN Amro Verzekeringen BV, plaintiff-appellant v. Geologistics Americas Inc., defendant-appellees

    Decided April 23, 2007Before Leval and Sotomayor, C.JJ., and Kravitz, D.J.*Plaintiff ABN Amro Verzekeringen BV appeals from a judgment in its favor entered by the United States Dis

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  • LaSalle Bank National Association v. Nomura Asset Capital Corp.

    Publication Date: 2005-09-23
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    U.S COURT OF APPEALS SECOND CIRCUIT Before Jacobs, Sack, and Raggi, C.JJ. Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New Y

  • In Re: Pfizer Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation, 09 Civ. 7822

    Publication Date: 2010-07-20
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Jed S. Rakoff
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ira M. Press, David E. Kovel, Edward Michael Varga, Kirby McInerney LLP, Gerald Harlan Silk, Jeroen Van Kwawegen, Mark Lebovitch, Noam Noah Nandel, Beata Gocyk-Farber, David Lloyd Wales, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Curtis Victor Trinko, Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP, New York, NY, Brett Stecker, Robert Weiser, the Weiser Law Firm, P.C., Wayne, PA, David Avi Rosenfeld, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Melville, NY, for Plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Dennis J. Block, Gregory Arthur Markel, Jason Michael Halper, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, James P. Rouhandeh, Robert B. Fiske, Jr., Ross Bradley Galin, Davis Polk & Wardwell L.L.P., New York, NY, for Defendants.
    Case Number: 09 Civ. 7822

    District Judge Jed S. RakoffDecided: July 13, 2010Ira M. Press, David E. Kovel, Edward Michael Varga, Kirby McInerney LLP, Ger

  • Swanson v. University of Cincinnati

    Publication Date: 2001-09-24
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    Date Filed: 2001-09-20
    Court: 6th Cir.
    Judge: KEITH, SILER, and CLAY, Circuit Judges
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    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion.SILER, Circuit Judge. John D. Swanson appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment to the University of C

  • February 5, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Top Plaintiffs' Verdicts

    A look at the top plaintiffs' verdicts of the year 2001, from asbestos to tortious interference. ASBESTOSA BIG WIN IN THE CRADLE OF ASBESTOS LAWSUITSCASE

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  • The Presbyterian Church of Sudan v. Talisman Energy Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-09-07
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    U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Judge Cote The plaintiffs are current and former residents of southern Sudan who allege, pursuant to the Alien Tort S