• Richmont Holdings Inc. v. Superior Recharge Systems L.L.C.

    Publication Date: 2013-01-30
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-01-25
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Per curiam.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: NO. 12-0142

    This is an interlocutory appeal from an order denying a motion to compel arbitration under the Texas General Arbitration Act. See T EX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE § 171.098(a)(1). The tr

  • January 15, 2009 | The Associated Press

    Ex-investment officer claims NM wasted $90 million

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. AP - A former investment officer for the state's educational pension program claims New Mexico taxpayers lost more than $90 million in an alleged "pay-to-play" scheme in whi

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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
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    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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