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  • July 3, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Creative Exit Strategy Possible When a Mass Tort Co-Defendant Files for Bankruptcy

    A creative exit strategy is sometimes the best defense for a manufacturer against potentially costly exposure to mass tort damages. While not every type of mass tort lends itself to a quick exi

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  • June 30, 2006 | Daily Business Review

    Data Mining Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry

    In 1999, a 20-year old college student was arrested for petty theft in Miami-Dade County after stealing a shirt from J.C. Penney. Like most first-time offenders, the young man completed a pr

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  • October 26, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    NEW ARRIVALS BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK (Denver): Joshua Hicks joins the firm's government relations group as of counsel to the newl

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  • September 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals In Brief / Private Equity: Finally, Some Action

    Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus / Interactive Data Silver Lake Partners, L.P., and Warburg Pincus LLC teamed up to buy all of Interactive Data Corporation for $3.4 billion in a deal

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  • April 26, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Bad Faith Suit Resolved in Favor Of Insurer

    Date of Judgment: Dec. 7, 2010. Court and Case No.: U.S.D.C. M.D.Pa 1:07-CV-1756. Judge: Christopher C. Conner. Type of Action: Breach of contract,

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  • April 18, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Superior Court Rejects Mistrial in Heated Asbestos Case

    The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that a trial judge did not have jurisdiction to order a mistrial in a hotly contested asbestos case.Judge Cheryl Lynn Allen, writing for the t

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  • February 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

    Arent Fox has hired W. DAVID WALLACE from Merchant & Gould to be a partner in Washington, D.C. Wallace focuses on patent prosecution, counseling, and litigation related to pharmaceuticals

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  • State of California v. Continental Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2012-08-09
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    Date Filed: 2012-08-09
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Darryl L. Doke and Jill Scally, Deputy Attorneys General; Cotkin & Collins, Joan Cotkin; Law Offices of Roger W. Simpson, Roger W. Simpson; Law Offices of Daniel J. Schultz, Daniel J. Schultz; Anderson Kill & Olick, Robert M. Horkovich, Edward J. Stein, Robert Chung and Cort Malone for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant. Gauntlett & Associates, David A. Gauntlet, James A. Lowe; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Barry S. Levin and Darren S. Teshima for United Policyholders and Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant. Winston & Strawn, Scott P. DeVries, Yelitza V. Dunham and Gene C. Schaerr for the League of California Cities as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant. Latham & Watkins, David L. Mulliken, Kristine L. Wilkes, Johanna S. Schiavoni and Drew T. Gardiner for Montrose Chemical Corporation of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant. Heller Ehrman, Proskauer Rose, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Reynold L. Siemens and David A. Thomas for Aeorojet-General Corporation and Whittaker Corporation as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant. Epstein, Turner & Song and David B. Epstein for Consumer Federation of America as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant.
    for defendant: Hodius; Berman & Aiwasian, Aiwasian & Associates, Deborah A. Aiwasian, Steven M. Haskell; Woolls & Peer, John E. Peer and H. Douglas Galt for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants Continental Insurance Company, Continental Casualty Company, Horace Mann Insurance Company and Yosemite Insurance Company. Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, Patrick M. Kelly, Carey B. Moorehead, Craig C. Hunter, Robert Cooper; Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, SNP Denton US, Paul E. B. Glad and Katherine J. Evans for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant Stonebridge Life Insurance Company. Duane Morris, Philip R. Matthews, Andrew K. Gordon and William J. Baron for Certain London Market Insurers as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Scott R. Hoyt for Truck Insurance Exchange as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants. Barber Law Group, Bryan M. Barber and Steven D. Meier Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent. Wiley Rein, Laura A. Foggan, Gregory J. Langlois; Sinnott Dito Moura & Puebla and Randolph P. Sinnott for Complex Insurance Claims Litigation Association and American Insurance Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants and Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. S170560

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 9101 THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff, Cross-Defendant and Appellant, v. CONTINENTA

  • October 16, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Better Business Bureau Cleared of Defamation

    A Philadelphia jury Tuesday rejected a defamation claim against the Better Business Bureau of Eastern Pennsylvania in a suit brought by Progressive Business Publications, a Malvern-based busin

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  • May 13, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Firm Pulls PBA Memberships Over 'Fair Share Act'

    For the better part of a year, Pennsylvania's plaintiffs bar has made the most noise in the debate over changes to the state's joint and several liability law. It may turn out, however, that

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