• October 1, 2004 | The Recorder

    News on Vioxx: A Shot in the Arm for Plaintiffs Bar

    The plaintiffs bar was heartened Thursday when pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. stopped sales of Vioxx, a popular arthritis drug that relieves aches and pains, but increases the risk of he

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  • May 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Apollo El Paso Exploration and Production Apollo Global Management, LLC, teamed with Riverstone Holdings LLC and Access Industries, Inc., on a $7.15 billion agreement to buy

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  • June 18, 2012 | Daily Business Review

    Former Stiefel employees still trying to recoup money

    Employees felt family-owned Stiefel Laboratories Inc. would never sell out — no matter how big the 160-year-old Coral Gables-based pharmaceutical company got. "That was a sour

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  • November 5, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Associates Class of 2010

    It’s too soon to say whether the recovery cycle has kicked in for New Jersey law firms, but after two years of decline, associate hires are back on the upswing. Featured in this, o

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  • Suffolk County Second Department SUPREME COURT,

    Publication Date: 2011-12-23
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    Justice Stephen M. BeharJastrzebski v. Jastrzebski (10/25467)—Motion WithdrawnJustice John C. BivonaPozen v. Pozen (10

  • September 10, 2010 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    ON THE MOVE SAN FRANCISCO MBV Law has added Yano Rubinstein as a partne

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  • July 27, 2009 | The Recorder

    New Offices Hold Tight During Silicon Valley Slump

    Managing partners of fledgling Silicon Valley offices say that despite the tanking economy and stagnant lateral market, they are here to stay. Their firms still see long-term economic opport

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  • September 12, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Supreme Court Mulls Punitive Damages in HRT Case

    As the state Supreme Court on Tuesday considered a punitive damages award of $8.6 million for a breast cancer survivor who took Wyeth's hormone replacement therapy drug Prempro, Justice Seamu

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  • March 3, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Unpublished Opinions

    STATE COURT CASES ADMINISTRATIVE LAW — PUBLIC UTILITIES 01-2-1157 In the

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  • In Re: Pfizer Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation, 09 Civ. 7822

    Publication Date: 2010-07-20
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Jed S. Rakoff
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ira M. Press, David E. Kovel, Edward Michael Varga, Kirby McInerney LLP, Gerald Harlan Silk, Jeroen Van Kwawegen, Mark Lebovitch, Noam Noah Nandel, Beata Gocyk-Farber, David Lloyd Wales, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Curtis Victor Trinko, Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP, New York, NY, Brett Stecker, Robert Weiser, the Weiser Law Firm, P.C., Wayne, PA, David Avi Rosenfeld, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Melville, NY, for Plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Dennis J. Block, Gregory Arthur Markel, Jason Michael Halper, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, James P. Rouhandeh, Robert B. Fiske, Jr., Ross Bradley Galin, Davis Polk & Wardwell L.L.P., New York, NY, for Defendants.

    Case Number: 09 Civ. 7822

    District Judge Jed S. RakoffDecided: July 13, 2010Ira M. Press, David E. Kovel, Edward Michael Varga, Kirby McInerney LLP, Ger