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  • March 23, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Judge Scuttles Settlement Over Ground Zero Health Problems

    A federal judge on Friday scuttled a proposed settlement of lawsuits filed by more than 10,000 Ground Zero workers seeking compensation for health problems triggered by their exposure to ash and du

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  • August 1, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Caution! Falling Lawyers

    U.K. law firms can be forgiven a feeling of schadenfreude at the moment as they look at the comings and -- mostly -- goings at some of the U.S. firms in London.Last year U.S. firms poa

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  • December 5, 2001 | The Recorder

    San Francisco Litigator to Represent American Taliban Supporter

    In what could become the highest profile case of his career, San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster partner James Brosnahan is representing John Walker, the U.S. citizen who joined the Ta

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  • July 6, 2011 | International

    Australia's Litigation-Funding Giant Looks Abroad

    Third-party litigation funding has started to receive greater attention in the United States and the United Kingdom, but Hugh McLernon has no doubt about where it all began. "It started right

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  • April 13, 2006 | The Recorder

    In Brief

    FISH FIRM ON HOOK FOR $30 MILLIONIt's time for Fish & Richardson to pay up.The California Supreme Court on Wednesday let stand a lower court ruling that reinstated a

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  • June 4, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Circuit Revives U.K. Investor's Claim Against Citigroup

    The claim of a British private equity investment firm that Citigroup Inc. duped it into making a disastrous bid for the record company EMI Group has been revived.In a 10-page order iss

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  • September 21, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Circuit Offers Guidance on Special Education Tuition Reimbursement

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has issued guidance to lower courts on how to evaluate the adequacy of education plans for disabled students when deciding whether to order sc

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  • United States v. Ali

    Publication Date: 2008-06-11
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2008-06-06
    Court: 4th Cir.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For appellant-cross-appellee: Joshua Dratel, New York.
    for defendant: For appellee-cross-appellant: David Laufman, U.S. Attorney's Office, Alexandria, Va.
    Case Number: 06-4521

    PUBLISHEDArgued: June 21, 2007Before WILKINSON, MOTZ, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge Wilkinson, Judge Motz, and Judge

  • July 29, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Innovators: Cash in Advance

    Where would an idea like third-party litigation funding come from? It would have to spring from seemingly unpromising soil where lawyers are barred from taking percentage contin

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  • July 1, 2011 | International

    The Smart Money

    Third-party litigation funding has started to receive greater attention in the United States and the United Kingdom, but Hugh McLernon has no doubt about where it all began. "It started right

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