• October 11, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Canadian Suits

    That didn't take long. Just nine months after filing for protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), media conglomerate Canwest Global Communications Corp. found separate buye

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  • In re Thorpe Insulation Company

    Publication Date: 2012-01-24
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    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

  • October 3, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Topical Index to Articles

    ADOPTION * Adoption Agency to Apologize and Pay Damages for HIV Discrimination; by Michael Booth, July 11, p. 87. ADVERTISING * Court Advertising Panel Pr

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  • October 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    Citigroup Auction-Rate Securities Settlement In a bid to be the first to put the auction rate securities mess behind it, Citigr

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  • People v. Navarro

    Publication Date: 2013-01-23
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    Date Filed: 2013-01-22
    Court: C.A. 2nd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Steven D. Matthews and David E. Madeo, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Law Offices of Helen Simkins Irza, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B235448

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 856THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent,v.DAVID NAVARRO, Defendant and Appellant.

  • October 9, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Azerbaijan Bribes Put One Mogul on Trial, Another in Exile

    For an international fugitive, Viktor Kozeny seems to have it pretty good. It's not quite the life o

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  • Fiore v. Walden

    Publication Date: 2012-08-08
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    Date Filed: 2011-09-12
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Edward C. Reed, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: Alfred T. Goodwin, Marsha S. Berzon, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert A. Nersesian and Thea Marie Sankiewicz, Nersesian & Sankiewicz, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
    for defendant: Michael F. Hertz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Barbara L. Herwig and Kelsi Brown Corkran, Attorneys, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.

    Case Number: No. 08-17558

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 8972 GINA FIORE; KEITH GIPSON, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ANTHONY WALDEN; UNKNOWN AGEN

  • August 28, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Skadden, Weil Gotshal, Davis Polk Advise $8.4 Billion NYMEX Sale CME Group, the world's largest derivat

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  • In re: Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, 08-01789 (BRL)

    Publication Date: 2011-03-02
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    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District
    Judge: Bankruptcy Judge Burton R. Lifland
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff, Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Substantively Consolidated SIPA Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC and Bernard L. Madoff: By: David J. Sheehan, John Moscow, Marc E. Hirschfield, Oren J. Warshavsky, Seanna R. Brown, Baker & Hostetler LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendants Emily Chasalow, Mark Chais, Wrenn Chais, William Chais, Miri Chais and the Entities Identified on Exhibit 1 to the Notice of Motion to Dismiss: By: Philip R. White, Andrew H. Sherman, Sills Cummis & Gross P.C., New York, NY.

    Case Number: 08-01789 (BRL)

    Cite as: In re: Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, 08-01789 (BRL), NYLJ 1202483825191, at *1 (SDNY, Decided February 24, 2010)Bankruptcy Judge Burton

  • In re: Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, 08-01789 (BRL)

    Publication Date: 2011-03-02
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    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District
    Judge: Bankruptcy Judge Burton R. Lifland
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff, Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Substantively Consolidated SIPA Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC and Bernard L. Madoff: By: David J. Sheehan, John Moscow, Marc E. Hirschfield, Oren J. Warshavsky, Seanna R. Brown, Baker & Hostetler LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendants Emily Chasalow, Mark Chais, Wrenn Chais, William Chais, Miri Chais and the Entities Identified on Exhibit 1 to the Notice of Motion to Dismiss: By: Philip R. White, Andrew H. Sherman, Sills Cummis & Gross P.C., New York, NY.

    Case Number: 08-01789 (BRL)

    Cite as: In re: Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, 08-01789 (BRL), NYLJ 1202483825191, at *1 (SDNY, Decided February 24, 2010)Bankruptcy Judge Burton