• July 15, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    $4.9 Billion Consulting Deal Uses Sidley, Debevoise, Paul Weiss and Davis Polk Chicago-based insurance broker Aon Corporation will nearly triple the si

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  • April 7, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Ellis, plaintiff-appellee v. Tribune Television Co., defendant-appellant

    Decided March 29, 2006Before Oakes, Sotomayor and Wesley, C.JJ. Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Droney, J.), entered Mar

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  • March 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    United Rentals v. RAM Holdings et al. On December 21 Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., won its legal battle to abandon a proposed $7 billion buyout of car rental company United

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  • January 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Kinder Morgan El Paso On October 17 Kinder Morgan, Inc., agreed to pay $21 billion in cash and stock for rival natural gas pipeline operator El Paso Corporation in an acquisition tha

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  • April 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Fixing Freddie Mac

    While attending an executive training conference a few years ago, Robert Bostrom studied the case of Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage financing company that had endured a multibillion-dollar

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  • In re Western States Wholesale Natural Gas Antitrust Litigation

    Publication Date: 2013-04-11
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-04-10
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Philip M. Pro, District Judge, Presiding Before: Carlos T. Bea and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges, and Willliam K. Sessions, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Gille Bacon (argued), William E. Quirk, and Gregory M. Bentz, Polsinelli Shughart PC, Kansas City, Missouri, for Appellants Learjet, Inc., et al., Heartland Regional Medical Center, et al., Breckenridge Brewery of Colorado, LLC, et al., Reorganized FLI, Inc., and Sinclair Oil Corporation. Robert L. Gegios, Alexander T. Pendleton, and William E. Fischer, Kohner, Mann & Kailas, S.C., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for Wisconsin Plaintiffs-Appellants. Mark E. Haddad (argued), Michelle B. Goodman, and Nitin Reddy, Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees CMS Energy Corp., CMS Energy Resources Management Co., and Cantera Gas Company.
    for defendant: Michael J. Kass and Douglas R. Tribble, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendants-Appellees Dynegy Marketing & Trade, Dynegy Illinois, Inc., DMT G.P. L.L.C., and Dynegy GP Inc. Joshua D. Lichtman, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Los Angeles, California, and Roxanna A. Manuel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, for Defendant-Appellee Coral Energy Resources, L.P. Joel B. Kleinman, Adam Proujanski, and Lisa M. Kaas, Dickstein Shapiro LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendants­Appellees Duke Energy Trading and Marketing, L.L.C. and Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC. Robert B. Wolinsky, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C., and Steven J. Routh, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees American Electric Power Company, Inc. and AEP Energy Services, Inc. Brent A. Benoit and Stacy Williams, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, Houston, Texas, for Defendants-Appellees El Paso Corporation, El Paso Merchant Energy, L.P., and El Paso Marketing, L.P. Amelia A. Fogleman, Oliver S. Howard, and Craig A. Fitzgerald, Gable Gotwals, A Professional Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Defendants-Appellees ONEOK, Inc., ONEOK Energy Services Company L.P. J. Gregory Copeland and Mark R. Robeck, Baker Botts LLP, Houston, Texas, for Defendant-Appellee Reliant Energy Services, Inc. Graydon Dean Luthey, Jr. and Sarah Jane Gillett, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Defendants-Appellees The Williams Companies, Inc., Williams Merchant Services Company, Inc., Williams Power Company, Inc., and Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Company. Michael John Miguel, K & L Gates LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees Xcel Energy, Inc., e prime, inc., e prime Energy Marketing, Inc., and Northern States Power Company.

    Case Number: No. 11-16786, No. 11-16798, No. 11-16799, No. 11-16802, No. 11-16818, No. 11-16821, No. 11-16869, No. 11-16876, No. 11-16880

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 3875IN RE: WESTERN STATES WHOLESALE NATURAL GAS ANTITRUST LITIGATION,LEARJET, INC.; TOPEKA UNIFIED S

  • November 14, 2005 | National Law Journal

    'NLJ 250' Shows Lawyer Ranks Growing Again

    After a two-year lull in growth at the nation's 250 largest law firms, the pace is picking back up. According to The National Law Journal's 28th annual survey of the nation's 25

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  • October 4, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Billing, plaintiffs-appellants v. Credit Suisse First Boston Ltd., defendants-appellees

    Decided Sept. 28, 2005Before Oakes, Katzmann, and Wesley, C.JJ. Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pauley, J.) entere

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  • July 26, 2004 |

    Small Firms, Big Clients

    Traditionally, corporate clients turned to the nation's largest firms when they needed outside legal help. But in today's economic environment, less can be more. Small firms can offer speed, e

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  • August 21, 2003 | National Law Journal

    A Rogue to Catch a Rogue

    In the spring of 1995, the Bayer Corp. had a problem.One of the drug maker's major customers, the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, was demanding a price break on an antibiotic t

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