• March 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    The Crack-Up

    At the end, when his longtime client had found out about the phony promissory notes and the auditor's lawyer was threatening to turn him in, when the client escrow accounts had been p

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  • January 2, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    In Memoriam: A Roll Call of 2012's Deceased Legal Luminaries

    With a new year under way, The Daily offers a look back at some of leading lights of the legal industry who died in 2012. As these deaths were generally covered either by

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  • January 24, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Businesses blast official's detainee spiel

    IT'S A RARE day when law firms get called out for their pro bono work. But that's exactly what happened when Pentagon official Charles "Cully" Stimson rattled off a list of firms repr

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  • August 5, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Biogenesis Bans Keep Lawyers Busy, A-Rod Taps Reed Smith

    UPDATE: 8/13/13, 11:45 a.m. EDT. The a href="http://w

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  • February 2, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    An Avalanche of Internet Applications Can Be a Mixed Blessing

    Anyone who has ever logged on to Monster.com knows that recruiting online can produce an avalanche of applicants. This presents a unique problem for companies doing business with the federal govern

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  • January 13, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Report Says Senator Should Be Expelled or Censured State Senator Hiram Monserrate, who was convicted of assault after his girlfriend showed up at a hospital with a slash

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  • Cynthia C. Barrera and Lisandro Perez, Plaintiffs v. Allan S. Stewart, M.D., Mona Flores, M.D., Benjamin Zalta, M.D., Christina Hill, M.D., the New York Presbyterian Hospital and Medtronic, Inc., Defendants, 117464/09

    Publication Date: 2013-02-19
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York County
    Judge: Justice Alice Schlesinger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiff: Glenn A. Herman, Esq., Jonathan C. Reiter, Esq., New York, NY.
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendant: Medtronic Marc J. Shanker, Esq., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, New York, NY. Attorney for Defendants: Flores, Zalta, Hill & NY Presb MD, Glen Pewarski, Esq., Bartlett, McDonough, Bastone & Monaghan, LLP, Mineola, NY. Attorney for Defendant: Allan S. Stewart, Christina Nunn, Esq., McAloon & Friedman, Esqs., New York, NY.

    Case Number: 117464/09

    Cite as: Barrera v. Stewart, 117464/09, NYLJ 1202588223303, at *1 (Sup., NY, Decided January 25, 2013)Justice Alice SchlesingerDeci

  • September 6, 2005 | A Practical Guide To Equal Employment Opportunity

    Spreading Franchise: Fraud Cases

    During the heyday of Internet start-up companies, California's Silicon Valley was a veritable corporate wild West, yet it attracted little criminal securities fraud enforcement efforts. b

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  • In re Thorpe Insulation Company

    Publication Date: 2012-01-24
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-01-24
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dale S. Fischer, District Judge, Presiding Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Richard Seeborg, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Patterson (argued), Kenneth N. Klee, Daniel J. Bussel, and David M. Guess, Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jeremy V. Richards and Scotta E. McFarland, Pachulski, Stang, Diehl & Jones LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellee Thorpe Insulation Company. John A. Lapinski and Leslie R. Horowitz, Clark & Trevithick, P.L.C., Los Angeles, California, for appellee Pacific Insulation Company. Peter Van N. Lockwood (argued), Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, Washington, D.C.; Peter J. Benvenutti, Jones Day, San Francisco, California, for appellee Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Thorpe Insulation Company and Pacific Insulation Company. Gary Fergus, Fergus, A Law Office, San Francisco, California, for appellee Charles B. Renfrew, the Futures Representative.
    for defendant: David C. Christian, II (argued), Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, Illinois; James M. Harris, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Los Angeles, California; Todd C. Jacobs, Grippe & Elden LLC, Chicago, Illinois, for appellants Continental Insurance Company and National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford. Tancred V. Schiavoni, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, New York; Richard B. Goetz, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jonathan Hacker, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C.; Alan S. Berman, the Berman Law Group, Woodland Hills, California, for appellants Motor Vehicle Casualty Company, Central National Insurance Company of Omaha, and Century Indemnity Company, successor to Cigna Specialty Insurance Company f/k/a California Union Insurance Company.

    Case Number: No. 10-56543 No. 10-56622

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 939 In the Matter of: THORPE INSULATION COMPANY, Debtor, MOTOR VEHICLE CASUALTY COMPANY; CENTRAL NATIONAL INS

  • November 30, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Sheraton Corp. Claims Inexperienced Associate Cost It $50.1 Million

    To serve as lead trial counsel in a major case for an important client is the dream of all ambitious big-firm litigation associates. If you ask the Sheraton Corporation, it is the client's

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