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  • November 24, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Madoff Trustee Requests $22 Million in Interim Fees The trustee and his team of lawyers liquidating Bernard L. Madoff's investment firm have asked a bankruptcy judge for

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  • May 25, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Jury Convicts Immigrant of Subway Bomb Plot A federal jury in Brooklyn yesterday convicted a Pakistani immigrant accused of plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station,

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  • January 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Corporate Crime

    With all that has been written recently about the Madoff scandal, the basic pattern of a so-called Ponzi scheme is by now well known. The fraudster solicits money from his initial victim

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  • January 29, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Retired Lawyer Sentenced in Milberg Weiss Kickback Scheme Seymour Lazar, who pleaded guilty in a lucrative kickback scheme involving class-action lawsuits against some of Ameri

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  • February 19, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Judge Recuses Himself From Murder Bench Trial A state judge has removed himself from the trial of a Southern Tier businessman facing murder charges in the d

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  • February 2, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Lateral Partner Moves Spiked in 2009, New Report Shows

    By most measures, 2009 was a dismal year for the legal industry. One notable exception to the drumbeat of record layoffs and bankruptcy actions: By our count, there were also a record number of lat

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  • November 14, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Bar Exam Pass Rate Hits Historic High Ninety-one percent of law school graduates who took the state bar examination this summer passed, scoring a 2.8 percen

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  • October 15, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

    From the Courthouse to the White House

    I'll never forget the shock of disillusionment I felt the first time I read an international treaty. What I had imagined as august documents of war and peace, comity between nations, the eleva

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  • December 5, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    HGCD Retail Services LLC, plaintiff-respondent v. 44-45 Broadway Realty Co., defendants-appellants

    Decided Nov. 28, 2006Before Saxe, J.P.; Marlow, Gonzalez, Catterson, and McGuire, JJDefendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Charles E. Ramos, J.), en

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  • McDannold v. Star Bank, N.A.

    Publication Date: 2001-08-14
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2001-08-13
    Court: 6th Cir.
    Judge: MERRITT and COLE, Circuit Judges; HOOD, District Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: Nos. 99-3497; 00

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. OPINION MERRITT, Circuit Judge. Though this combined appeal raises detailed questions of secured transactions