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  • June 24, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Terror Funding Case Could Clarify Limits of Foreign Privacy Laws

    Last year the American Bar Association reported that global companies in U.S. court increasingly face a "Hobson's choi

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  • June 8, 2006 | Alm

    N.J. High Court Majority-Rule Pacts Don't Pass Muster

    A lawyer representing multiple clients in litigation cannot obtain advance consent that they will abide by a settlement the majority approves, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled last week. br

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  • November 26, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Justices Refuse to Hear $3 Mil. Legal Malpractice Case

    The state Supreme Court has denied allocatur in a case where an insurance company and its insurance defense law firm were hit with a $3 million verdict for breach of contract and legal malpractice

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  • Blackrock Financial Management Inc. v. The Segregated Account of Ambac Assurance Corp., 11-5309-cv(L)

    Publication Date: 2012-02-29
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before Jacobs, Ch.J., Hall and Lohier, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Petitioners-Appellants BlackRock Financial Management, Inc., et al.: ROBERT MADDEN, Gibbs & Bruns, LLP, Houston, TX (Kathy Patrick, Gibbs & Bruns, LLP, Houston, TX, Kenneth E. Warner, Warner Partners, P.C., New York, NY, on the brief). For Petitioner-Appellant The Bank of New York Mellon: ANDREW L. FREY, Mayer Brown LLP, New York, NY (Matthew D. Ingber, Christopher J. Houpt, Mayer Brown LLP, New York, NY, Charles A. Rothfeld, Brian J. Wong, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, Hector Gonzalez, James M. McGuire, Dechert LLP, New York, NY, on the brief).
    for defendant: For Respondents-Appellees Walnut Place LLC, et al: OWEN L. CYRULNIK, Grais & Ellsworth LLP, New York, NY (David J. Grais, Kathryn E. Matthews, Leanne M. Wilson, on the brief). For Respondents-Appellees The Segregated Account of Ambac Asssurance Coorporation & AMBAC Assurance Corporation: Rachel Allison Gupta, DLA Piper LLP, New York, NY. For Respondents-Appellees Triaxx Prime CDO 2007-1, Ltd., et al: John G. Moon, Miller & Wrubel P.C., New York, NY. For Respondent-Appellee Commonwealth Investors: Justin M. Sher, Sher LLP, New York,NY. For Respondents-Appellees American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company & Knights of Columbus: Peter N. Tsapatsaris, Peter N. Tsapatsaris, LLC, New York, NY. For Respondents-Appellees Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, et al.: David J. Grais, Grais & Ellsworth LLP, New York, NY. For Respondents-Appellees Policemens Annuity & Benefit Fund of Chicago, et al.: Beth A. Kaswan, Scott+Scott LLP, New York, NY. For Respondents-Appellees Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston, et al.: Derek W. Loeser, Amy Christine Williams-Derry, Keller Rohrback, L.L.P., Seattle, WA, Gary A. Gotto, Ron Kilgard, Keller Rohrback, PLC, Phoenix, AZ. For Respondent-Appellee Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh: Heather Yue-Ling Fong, Robbins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP, New York, NY. For Respondents-Appellees Columbus Life Insurance Company, et al.: Daniel M. Reilly, Reilly Pozner, L.L.P., Denver, CO. For Amicus Curiae Bank of America Corporation: THEODORE N. MIRVIS, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY (George T. Conway III, Elaine P. Golin, Won S. Shin, on the brief).
    Case Number: 11-5309-cv(L)

    Cite as: Blackrock Financial Management Inc. v. The Segregated Account of Ambac Assurance Corp., 11-5309-cv(L), NYLJ 1202543755452, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided February 27, 2012) p

  • April 22, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Class Certification on Overtime Pay, Facebook Ownership Dispute

    About a month before the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether a federal court may hear a nationwide class action on behalf of hundreds of thousands of female Wal-Mart employees,1/sup

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  • April 9, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

    'Stream-of-Commerce Plus' Allows U.K. Company To Be Sued in N.J.

    A British manufacturer without New Jersey contacts can still be sued here if it works closely with a U.S. company to distribute its products in a territory that includes the state, an appeals

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  • March 5, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Derivative Lawsuits Face New Hurdles

    Two recent rulings in the California and Delaware supreme courts erect significant barriers to derivative lawsuits by shareholders, as in the California suit, or company directors who do not o

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  • September 2, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Panel Reinstates Evidence Found by 'Curious' Police A state appeals panel has reversed a Supreme Court judge's decision to suppress the rifle, three pounds of cocaine, f

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  • November 20, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    National Football League, plaintiff-appellant v. Vigilant Insurance Company, defendant-appellant

    Decided Nov. 14, 2006Before Sullivan, J.P.; Williams, Gonzalez, Catterson, and McGuire, JJPlaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard J. Fried, J

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  • May 29, 2006 | Legal Times

    At 94, Looking Back at a Life Less Ordinary

    "I suppose if I had to do it over again, I'd be an architect," says David Ginsburg. "There's a creativity to designing a building — to make it fit the surrounding landscape — t

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