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  • June 17, 2005 | Daily Report Online

    $140 Billion Asbestos Bill Facing Uphill Senate Battle

    Marcia Coyle [email protected] WASHINGTON-In the words of one participant, the dynamics of asbestos reform negotiations in the Senate during the last two years have been: You push

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  • May 23, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Suing banks on behalf of purchasers of toxic assets

    Before 2007, asking David Grais and Kathryn Ellsworth about collateralized debt obligations and mortgage-backed securities would have probably resulted in a decent amount of head-scratching b

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  • April 15, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Gibson Dunn Wins Sanctions Against SunTrust in AIG Mortgage Insurance Fraud Suit

    Two years after SunTrust Bank sued an American International Group unit for fraud and breach of contract connected to AIG insurance policies covering soured mortgages, SunTrust is suddenly having to p

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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

  • January 1, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORP. SELLING DEEP WATER FIELD FOR $1.35 BILLIONJeffrey K. Smith, counsel for The Woodlands-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp., leads the legal team working on Anadarko'

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  • June 27, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Flagstar to Pay $105M to Settle Assured Suit

    Due to quirks of timing and judicial assignment, Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp.'s lawsuit against Flagstar Bancorp Inc. turned into one of the most high-profile cases in the sprawl

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  • March 6, 2008 | The Recorder

    Reed Between the Hires

    LOS ANGELES � When David Halbreich, a former Morgan, Lewis & Bockius partner in Los Angeles, was looking for a new firm late last year, Reed Smith wasn't on his radar."It never occ

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  • March 7, 2008 | The Recorder

    Reed Smith's L.A. Hiring Spree Raises Profits

    When David Halbreich, a former Morgan, Lewis & Bockius partner in Los Angeles, was looking for a new firm late last year,

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  • April 22, 2011 | The American Lawyer

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

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher announced the addition of VERONICA LEWIS and BRIAN ROBISON as partners in the f

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  • September 5, 2005 | Legal Times

    D.C. Firms Move Fast With Hurricane Relief

    There are few D.C. law firms that have as close roots to New Orleans as Patton Boggs, whose founding family stretches back generations in Louisiana politics.So when firm p

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