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  • April 23, 2002 | Corporate Counsel

    EBay's Risky Bid

    Something didn't smell right. Years of nabbing spies, kidnappers and other bad guys had taught Robert Chestnut a thing or two about scam artists. A former federal prosecutor-turned-blood

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  • October 22, 2007 | Legal Times

    New Study Suggests Veteran Advocates Sway Supreme Court

    For the elite of the Supreme Court Bar, this is the Gilded Age. Or call it the Age of the Guild.The Court's docket continues to shrink. Yet dramatic new research by Georgetown University Law

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  • May 12, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

    Speakers Temple University's Beasley School of Law has announced Nelson A. Diaz, class of 1972, as its commencement speaker on May 18. Currently a partner at Bl

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  • May 1, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

    The Third Way

    It looked like a done deal. In the summer of 2002, the senior executives of London's Benfield Group Plc, the world's largest reinsurance brokerage firm, prepared to take their business public.

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  • October 28, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    Texas Fold 'Em: Texas Supporters' Efforts Don't Pay Off for Miers

    Jerry K. Clements talked to her friend and former law partner Harriet E. Miers on Thursday morning, only minutes after the White House disclosed the news: The president had accepted Miers' wit

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  • Giordano v. Market America, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-03-24
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    Date Filed: 2010-03-17
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: Sack, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 06-2071-cv

    Argued: November 8, 2007Final Submission: April 7, 2009Before: McLAUGHLIN, CABRANES, and SACK, Circuit Judges.Plaintiff John Giordano appeals from a judgment of the United States District Cou

  • Quezada v. Smith, 10-2738-op

    Publication Date: 2010-10-25
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Newman and Hall, C.JJ., and Restani,* Ch.J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah L. Cave, David B. Shanies, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, N.Y., for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Charles J. Hynes, Kings County District Atty., Leonard Joblove, Victor Barall, Marie-Claude P. Wrenn, Asst. District Attys., Brooklyn, N.Y., for Respondent-Appellee.
    Case Number: 10-2738-op

    Cite as: Quezada v. Smith, 10-2738-op, NYLJ 1202473801504, at *1 (2d. Cir., Decided October 21, 2010)Before: Newman and Hall, C.JJ., and Restani,* Ch.J.p c

  • Farmers Insurance Exchange v. Superior Court (Wilson)

    Publication Date: 2013-07-24
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    Date Filed: 2013-07-23
    Court: C.A. 2nd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Rex Parris Law Firm, R. Rex Parris, Alexander R. Wheeler, Jacob L. Karczewski and John M. Bickford; Altshuler Berzon, Michael Rubin, Peder J. Thoreen and Matthew J. Murray for Plaintiffs and Real Parties in Interest.
    for defendant: Seyfarth Shaw, George E. Preonas, Andrew M. Paley and Sheryl L. Skibbe; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Julian W. Poon, Christopher Chorba, Kirsten R. Galler and Neta Levanon for Petitioner and Defendant. No appearance for Respondents.
    Case Number: No. B246901

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 7795 FARMERS INSURANCE EXCHANGE, Petitioner and Defendant, v. SUPE

  • Quezada v. Smith, 10-2738-op

    Publication Date: 2010-10-25
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    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Newman and Hall, C.JJ., and Restani,* Ch.J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah L. Cave, David B. Shanies, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, N.Y., for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Charles J. Hynes, Kings County District Atty., Leonard Joblove, Victor Barall, Marie-Claude P. Wrenn, Asst. District Attys., Brooklyn, N.Y., for Respondent-Appellee.
    Case Number: 10-2738-op

    Cite as: Quezada v. Smith, 10-2738-op, NYLJ 1202473801504, at *1 (2d. Cir., Decided October 21, 2010)Before: Newman and Hall, C.JJ., and Restani,* Ch.J.p c

  • April 10, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    Polygamist Compound Removal Cases to Test State Civil Justice System

    Tom Vick is looking for about 100 lawyers willing to volunteer for what likely is the biggest family law case in Texas history.Their mission will be to represent hundreds of children r

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