• July 5, 2004 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE COUNSELRonald Peppe II has joined the Association of Corporate Counsel as vice president, law and communications. Most recently he was gene

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  • August 18, 2008 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    DISTINCTIVE MOVES   img height="128" alt="" width="128" src="/images/128_pics/swarbrick

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  • April 13, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    DLA Piper Continues Growth With Addition of Williams

    Seeking an opportunity to play a more prominent role in major pharmaceutical products liability defense cases, Raymond Williams has left Reed Smith and joined DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary.

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  • August 31, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Sunoco Wins $50 Million Insurance Dispute

    Lawyers for Sunoco Inc. have won a huge victory in the court battle over insurance coverage for scores of pending lawsuits over alleged groundwater contamination caused by methyl tertiary-buty

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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 10, 2006 | Legal Times

    Report Shows Firms' Railroad Ties

    WASHINGTON � Forgoing fancy dinners and large billable rates, and keeping fastidious records, are all part and parcel of doing legal work for the federal government.But, at least for t

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  • Home Loan Corp. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

    Publication Date: 2010-05-03
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    Date Filed: 2010-04-29
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 14
    Judge: Jeffrey V. Brown Justice
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-09-00119-CV

    Affirmed and Opinion filed April 29, 2010.OPINIONHome Loan Corporation d/b/a Expanded Mortgage Credit appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. On

  • September 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Eaton Cooper Industries Eaton Corporation agreed to pay $11.8 billion in cash and stock for Cooper Industries plc on May 21 in the second-largest M

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  • February 1, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Escape Routes

    Dewey & LeBoeuf may be gone, but in the lateral market, its legacy lives on. In the 12-month period ending September 30, 2012, 280 Dewey partners flooded the market, helping

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  • December 19, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Lowenstein Lands Goodwin Procter Chair of IP Transactional Practice

    Goodwin Procter lost a leading intellectual property lawyer to Roseland's Lowenstein Sandler last week and is closing the New Jersey office it opened with fanfare five years ago. The d

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