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  • January 18, 2006 | National Law Journal

    SOX Whistleblower Protection Is Not International

    Corporate whistleblower protection under the Sarbanes-Oxley securities law stops at the U.S. border. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has become the first appellate court to weigh in on th

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  • September 21, 2005 | Legal Times

    Do Nonbelievers Count?

    After a talk several years ago, the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist fielded a question about the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, not from a legal scholar but from a pugnacious soc

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  • MBIA Insurance Corporation, Plaintiff v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., Defendants, 602825/08

    Publication Date: 2011-01-14
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York County, Part Three
    Judge: Justice Eileen Bransten
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff: Counsel on the matter are Peter E. Calamari, Philippe Z. Selendy, Manisha M. Sheth, Nicholas F. Joseph and Eve S. Moskowitz of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
    for defendant: For Defendant: Mark Holland, Christopher J. Garvey, Abigail K. Hemani, Larkin M. Morton, Paul F. Ware, Jr. and Sarah Heaton Concannon of Goodwin Procted LLP
    Case Number: 602825/08

    Cite as: MBIA Ins. Corp. v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc, 602825/08, NYLJ 1202477806232, at *1 (Sup., NY, Decided December 22, 2010)Justice Eileen Branstenp

  • January 18, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Firms Prepare For Further Downturn

    Billable work at many of Connecticut's largest law firms took a steep slide in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but largely recovered by the time October and November rolled around,

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  • January 19, 2005 | Alm

    Midsize Firms Resisting Trend to Merge

    Despite last year's abundance of law firm megamergers, including the creation of 2,700-lawyer DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary effective this month, a strong contingent of midsize practices are esc

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  • March 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Gilead Pharmasset Gilead Sciences, Inc., agreed to pay $11 billion in cash for Pharmasset, Inc., on November 21, 2011, to acquire the target's treatments for hepatitis C, also

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  • July 31, 2008 | Law.com

    Associates Survey 2008

    Ranking The Firms: National Rank

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  • February 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    BP Asset SalesBP p.l.c. has been on a selling spree. In October the company struck a deal to sell its 50 percent stake in TNK–BP, Russia's third

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  • September 7, 2012 | The Recorder

    At the Podium: 'False Evidence' Is Put to Test

    SAN FRANCISCO — If William Richards did kill his wife, Pamela, the night of Aug. 10, 1993, he must have worked fast. Richards clocked out of work at 11:03 p.m. and his home in rural San

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  • June 14, 1999 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Jeans, Juveniles and Justice

    Bellbottom jeans and the Volkswagen Beetle may be back, but attorney Miguel A. Escalera says some phenomenon of the 1960s are simply not worthreviving. One of them, he says, is resistance to

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