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  • August 2, 1999 | National Law Journal

    Suits Challenge Net Bet Debt

    Despite pending congressional legislation that would ban Internet gambling, plaintiffs' lawyers have launched a series of federal class actions aimed at holding the high rollers of the credit card

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  • March 8, 2007 | The Recorder

    Treatise Mixes Legal Analysis, Tips

    Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal CourtsRobert Haig, ed.Thomson West/$960While the challenge of compiling and editing a treatise on so broad a subject as com

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  • August 5, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Which Firms Did Layoffs Well -- and Which Didn't?

    On a Monday morning in early March, two associates sat in an East Coast office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius discussing a firmwide e-mail fro

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  • August 9, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Challenges to the Scope of Class Certification

    Most securities fraud cases involve allegations that false statements were made to inflate the price of a company's stock. A case pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ill

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  • March 29, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Bankruptcy Law

    When a debtor enters bankruptcy, an "estate" is created for the ultimate benefit of creditors. Under the Bankruptcy Code, the assets of a bankruptcy estate include "all legal or equitable interests

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  • Matter of Kantrowitz, Goldhamer Graifman, P.C. v New York State Electric Gas Corporation

    Publication Date: 2006-03-09
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    Court: Appellate Division, 3rd Dept
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    Case Number: 98911

    Decided and Entered: March 9, 2006 98911 __________________________________ In the Matter of KANTROWITZ, GOLDHAMER & GRAIFMAN, P.C., et al., Appellants

  • April 18, 2011 | Law.com Corporate

    The 2012 APPELLATE HOT LIST

    The U.S. Supreme Court arguments over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — Obamacare, if you must — figure prominently in this year's list of hot appellate firms. Scarce

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  • Meijer, Inc. v. Biovail Corp.

    Publication Date: 2008-07-30
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    Date Filed: 2008-07-25
    Court: DC Cir.
    Judge: Ginsburg, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For appellants: Bruce Gerstein, Garwin Gerstein & Fisher, New York.
    for defendant: For appellee: Steven Obus, Proskauer Rose, New York.
    Case Number: Nos. 05-7066 Consolidated with 05-7069, 05-7084, 06-7118

    Argued September 7, 2007Before: GINSBURG, ROGERS, and KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judges.The plaintiff-appellants in these four antitrust class actions are wholesale purchasers of Tiazac (extended-releas

  • October 17, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Summer Associates Survey 2011: A Season In the Sun

    Law students who spent the past summer working at some of the nation's largest firms went into their jobs knowing the negative reputation that life at such firms can have. They ended

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  • April 10, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    The Pro Bono Benefit

    Today we place great and often exclusive emphasis on the directly remunerative aspect of the practice of law. After years of resistance, we have accepted the precepts that the legal profession

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