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  • March 4, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    A BIDBYNINE New York City pension funds to have their fraud case against former WorldCom Inc. CEO Bernard Ebbers and others returned to state court has been rejected by Southern District Judge

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  • January 10, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Prominent Law Firms Move to Limit Liability

    In a sign of increased caution in the post-Enron world, two of New York's most prominent law firms have elected to become limited liability partnerships.Sullivan & Cromwell and Pau

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  • April 19, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Lawyering as Fine Art

    A new collection of art passes through Christie's every few days. Its showrooms in Rockefeller Center can be a Louis XVI estate one week, a garage of racy motorcars the next. Visitors might fe

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  • American Re-Insurance Co. v United States Fid. Guar. Co.

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    Andrias, J.P., Marlow, Sweeny, McGuire, Malone, JJ. 8808N Index 604517/02 American Re-Insurance Company, Plaintiff-Respondent, v United States Fidelity &

  • January 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Obstacle Course

    Last November, Sharon Nelles was trying very hard not to think about cookies. The Sullivan & Cromwell partner was about to begin trial in a massive antitrust suit in Des Moines against her

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  • October 9, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    New Spitzer Biography Reveals 'Crusading Good Kid' With a Dark Side

    "Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer"By Brooke A. Masters (New York: Henry Holt; 368 pages; $26) "Nice kid. He's gonna get killed," Daniel Patrick Moynihan, New Yo

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  • April 26, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Judge Rules AIG Didn't Knowingly Make Misstatements in Offerings

    Thanks to an influential 2011 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, American Insurance Group Inc. has trimmed down a class action alleging that the company misled in

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  • May 24, 1999 | National Law Journal

    Judge Rejects 'Worthless' Deal

    A New York federal judge has rejected a shareholder class action settlement and request for $200,000 in plaintiffs' attorney fees, calling the deal virtually worthless to shareholders. The c

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  • March 4, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Slaughter, Debevoise, Cleary, Weil and Cravath on $35.5 Billion AIG Deal American International Group Inc. (AIG) has agreed to sell its Asian insurance unit to Prudentia

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  • June 13, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    New York Court of Appeals Roundup

    A divided Court of Appeals interpreted statutory indemnification provisions in a 4-3 decision of importance to directors and officers who may wish to retain counsel separate from that of the corpor

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