• December 8, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Directors' and Officers' Liability

    Effective Dec. 1, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a variety of new and amended rules constituting the most comprehensive reform of the registration, communication and offering p

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  • Neyland v. Raymond

    Publication Date: 2010-09-03
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    Date Filed: 2010-08-31
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 2
    Judge: Anne Gardner Justice
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    Case Number: 2-09-410-CV

    OPINIONINTRODUCTIONAppellant Jerrel Neyland appeals from a final decree divorcing him from appellee Jeanne Raymond. In three issues, Neyland argues that the trial court abused its discretion by

  • August 24, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Understanding Big-Firm Jargon

    My mom, bless her, faithfully reads my ramblings. She finds them "interesting," but thinks that I need to explain a few things to people like her who are not Big Firm attorneys. I apologize

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  • Willis Management (Vermont), Ltd., Venture Reinsurance Company, Ltd v. United States of America

    Publication Date: 2011-09-05
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    Date Filed: 2011-07-14
    Court: UNKNOWN: UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS For the Second Circuit August Term, 2010
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    Case Number: 10-1616-cv

    Argued: March 30, 2011Before: STRAUB, SACK, and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.Petitioners-Appellants Willis Management (Vermont), Ltd., and Venture Reinsurance 4 Company, Ltd., appeal from a Memor

  • United States v. Wilk

    Publication Date: 2009-07-02
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    Date Filed: 2009-06-29
    Court: 11th Cir.
    Judge: Wilson, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: Nos. 07-14176 and 07-14196

    PUBLISHBefore DUBINA, Chief Judge, BIRCH and WILSON, Circuit Judges.Kenneth Wilk appeals his convictions for unlawfully killing a state law enforcement officer assisting in a federal investigati

  • August 26, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    Pro Se Prisoner Win Rare is the pro se civil litigant, particularly one who resides in a unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, who wins a federal case. But Bryan Oscar C

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  • April 3, 2006 | Legal Times

    Full Disclosure

    Reform, Take OneSo the Senate passed its lobby reform bill last week. Lobbyist-bought gifts and meals? Out the window. Jaunts on private jets? Must be preapproved b

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  • December 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Simpson, Schulte Advise $6.3 Billion Purchase of Auto Financing Company Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Canada's second-largest bank by assets, has reached a $6.3 billion ag

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  • June 28, 2011 | Daily Report Online

    Ford settles product liability, wrongful death suit

    Ford Motor Co. settled a seat belt product liability and wrongful death case in the middle of trial Friday afternoon in Cobb County State Court. The news of the confidential settlement

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  • Scher v. National Association of Securities Dealers Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-07-13
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    U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Judge Mukasey In 1972, a former New York state senator and designee for the State Supreme Court bench named Seymour T