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  • January 21, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Ann V. Robertson has joined Liskow & Lewis in Houston as of counsel, focusing on energy issues including drilling, seismic, indemnity, insurance and ri

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  • May 11, 2009 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    NEW ARRIVALS Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck (Denver): Johnnie A. James joins the firm's employment and litigation groups as partner in the Los

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  • February 21, 2012 | Daily Business Review

    Three law firms open in new locales

    A trio of Am Law 100 firms chose the same day to announce office openings in new locales. DLA Piper has hired four partners from Thompson & Knight to establish an outpost in Mexico

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  • March 2, 2012 | The Recorder

    Capital Chase

    SAN FRANCISCO — Private equity firms are eager to put to work some of the hoards of cash they've been sitting on while the economy was on life support, and law firms in California are l

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  • November 18, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Was Chief Justice's Comment on Special Masters Too Harsh?

    Continuing to reverberate around Supreme Court circles is a comment made by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. during oral argument last month in the case of South Carolina v. North Carolina,

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  • Esther Kiobel, individually and on behalf of her late husband, Dr. Barinem Kiobel, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, 06-4800-cv

    Publication Date: 2010-09-20
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Jacobs, Ch.J, Leval, and Cabranes, C.JJ
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Hoffman, Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, LLP, Venice, CA (Stephen A. Whinston, Carey R. D?Avino, Keino R. Robinson, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees. Jeffrey J. Keyes, Briggs and Morgan, P.A., Minneapolis, MN (Mark Girouard, Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for amici curiae International Law Professors in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Naomi Roht-Arriaza, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae International Law Scholars Cherif Bassiouni, et al. in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Judith Brown Chomsky (Jennifer M. Green, on the brief), Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY (Marcos Simons, Richard Herz, Earthrights International, Washington, DC, on the brief), for amici curiae Wiwa Plaintiffs in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Rowan D. Wilson (Rory O. Millson, Thomas G. Rafferty, Michael T. Reynolds, on the brief), Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.
    Case Number: 06-4800-cv

    Cite as: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 06-4800-cv, NYLJ 1202472235126, at *1a,2a (2d Cir., Decided September 17, 2010)Before: Jacobs, Ch.J, Leval, and Ca

  • Esther Kiobel, individually and on behalf of her late husband, Dr. Barinem Kiobel, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, 06-4800-cv

    Publication Date: 2010-09-20
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Jacobs, Ch.J, Leval, and Cabranes, C.JJ
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Hoffman, Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, LLP, Venice, CA (Stephen A. Whinston, Carey R. D?Avino, Keino R. Robinson, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees. Jeffrey J. Keyes, Briggs and Morgan, P.A., Minneapolis, MN (Mark Girouard, Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for amici curiae International Law Professors in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Naomi Roht-Arriaza, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae International Law Scholars Cherif Bassiouni, et al. in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Judith Brown Chomsky (Jennifer M. Green, on the brief), Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY (Marcos Simons, Richard Herz, Earthrights International, Washington, DC, on the brief), for amici curiae Wiwa Plaintiffs in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Rowan D. Wilson (Rory O. Millson, Thomas G. Rafferty, Michael T. Reynolds, on the brief), Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.
    Case Number: 06-4800-cv

    Cite as: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 06-4800-cv, NYLJ 1202472235126, at *1a,2a (2d Cir., Decided September 17, 2010)Before: Jacobs, Ch.J, Leval, and Ca

  • June 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Your Papers, Please

    One of the most important cases facing general counsel, their accountants, and outside lawyers has been percolating through Texas. The suit raises questions about the scope of the so-called au

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  • December 18, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Bankruptcy Rates Top $1,000 Per Hour Mark in 2008-09

    A review of bankruptcy rates in Delaware and the Southern District of New York shows that a handful of U.S.-based partners at Am Law 200 firms have inched above the $1,000 rate barrier, making bank

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  • July 28, 2010 | The Recorder

    Small Firm Attorney Elected Calif. State Bar President

    He broke up the room in his opening speech with a joke involving his wife and cracked them up again in his closing speech with a joke about his fellow candidates. But in between San Francisc

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