• September 11, 2020 | The American Lawyer

    Hire Up: The Energy Behind Big Law's Texas Moves

    Significant lateral moves this week include Kevin Keenan, a shipping and energy lawyer who joined Reed Smith in Houston, coming from Hogan Lovells, and a group in Alston & Bird's new Fort Worth office.

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  • August 27, 2020 | Law.com

    Doing Good Is Good For Business

    Companies aren't just hiring law firms to support their efforts at being better corporate citizens. They're training a gimlet eye on firms' own efforts to be greener and improve their own social impact.

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  • August 21, 2020 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

    This week's list includes Wilmer lawyers winning a big Hatch-Waxman case and a lineup of heavy hitters reversing Qualcomm's antitrust fortunes at the Ninth Circuit.

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  • In re Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-08-18
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc.: William F. Dahill, on the brief, Paul R. Defilippo, Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP, New York, NY
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee First Northern Bank and Trust Company: William A. Slaughter, Ballard Spahr LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Leslie C. Heilman, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE. For Defendants-Appellees Garadex Inc., Gatex Properties Inc., and Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated: John H. Thompson, McGuire Woods LLP, Washington, DC. For Defendants-Appellees General Security National Insurance and SCOR Reinsurance Company: Scott Walter Reynolds, Chaffetz Lindsey LLP, New York, NY; Nicole E. Schiavo, Peter A. Ivanick, Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, NY. For Defendants-Appellees Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Co., Magnetar Constellation Fund II Ltd Magnetar Constellation Master Fund III Ltd, Magnetar Constellation Master Fund Ltd., and UniCredit Bank AG, London Branch: Nicholas P. Crowell, Alex R. Rovira, Andrew P. Propps, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee LGT Bank in Liechtenstein Ltd: Gregory F. Hauser, Wuersch & Gering LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee The Liverpool Limited Partnership: Matthew J. Gold, Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C., New York, NY. For Defendants-Appellees Mariner LDC, Structured Credit Opportunities Fund II, L.P., and Tricadia Credit Strategies Master Fund, Ltd., f/k/a Mariner-Tricadia Credit Strategies Master Fund, Ltd: Thomas J. Fleming, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee MBIA, Inc: Kevin J. Biron, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee MoneyGram Securities, LLC and its Successors in Interest: Brian Dillon, Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty, & Bennett, P.A., Minneapolis, MN. For Defendant-Appellee Morgans Financial Limited: Lewis J. Liman, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee Mulberry Street CDO, Ltd: Jack Yoskowitz, Seward & Kissel LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee Natixis Financial Products LLC: Scott W. Reynolds, Chaffetz Lindsey LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee PCA Life Assurance Co. Ltd: Nicholas P. Crowell, Jon W. Muenz, Andrew P. Propps, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee RGA Reinsurance Co.: Emilio B. Nicolas, Jackson Walker LLP, Austin, TX. For Defendant-Appellee Security Benefit Life Insurance Co.: David Adler, McCarter & English, LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellee Shenandoah Life Insurance Company: Joseph J. Saltarelli, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP. For Amicus Curiae Structured Finance Industry Group: Madlyn Gleich Primoff, Timothy P. Harkness, David Y. Livshiz, Henry V. Hutten, Jill K. Serpa, on the brief, Freshfields Bruckhaus & Deringer US LLP, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 18-1079

    Certain Priority Provisions Are Enforceable Under the Bankruptcy Code's Safe Harbor

  • July 23, 2020 | Law.com

    Labor of Law: EEOC Will Study Quality of Pay-Data Collection | Appeals Court Rebuffs SOX Claim | Beth Wilkinson, the Investigator | Who Got the Work: New ERISA Case at SCOTUS

    Welcome to Labor of Law. The EEOC has given us a peek at its initial plans to study the court-ordered pay-data collection of Component 2 data. Scroll down for a new US appeals ruling on a SOX claim, and for Who Got the Work. Plus: a roundup of L&E headlines. Thanks for reading!

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  • July 21, 2020 | The Recorder

    Firms Keep California Dreamin' Even as Pandemic Rages

    All of this interest, among firms of different shapes and sizes, indicates the competitiveness of the California legal marketplace and the exceptional vitality of the state's economy even in the midst of a pandemic, particularly in the Bay Area.

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  • June 29, 2020 | Texas Lawyer

    Advice for Boards and Board Directors During the Pandemic: A Q&A With Sidley's Yvette Ostolaza

    Texas Lawyer spoke recently with Ostolaza about what boards and board members can do to manage litigation risk while the COVID-19 pandemic is still active.

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  • June 19, 2020 | New York Law Journal

    Exchange of Enhancements for Concessions—Insights into the Modern Loan Workout

    The distressed real estate loan workout is a business deal filled with mutual compromise that right-sizes the asset and resets the loan obligations and the parties' expectations. Any lender making material economic concessions has bargained for, and should acquire the type of legal enhancements discussed here.

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  • June 10, 2020 | Law.com

    Critical Mass: 'A Moral Issue': Black Mass Tort Lawyers on George Floyd Protests. Two Women Launch New Plaintiffs' Firm. Find Out Who's Fighting a COVID-19 Insurance MDL.

    Two prominent African-American lawyers in mass torts, one for plaintiffs and one for defendants, share what the protests mean to them personally and professionally.

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  • June 9, 2020 | Law.com

    Compliance Hot Spots: DOJ Posts 'Foreign Agent' Letters | Who Got the Work: Abbe Lowell Jumps Into Ghosn-Related Case | A Whistleblower Makes a Windfall

    Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots. DOJ's providing greater transparency in the FARA space. Plus, Trent Lott is out at Squire Patton Boggs, and scroll down for major headlines, Who Got the Work, notable moves and much more. We'd love your feedback -- and thanks for reading.

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