• Kings County Second Department SUPREME COURT,

    Publication Date: 2012-06-25
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    Justice Bernadette BayneNYC v. 147 Mountainview Ave. (994019/12)—Case DisposedAzim v. Babizhayev (29554/10)—Grant Ext

  • August 12, 2003 | The Recorder

    The Marshall Plan

    Every October, the townsfolk of Marshall, Texas, gather for a festival honoring a pesky and ubiquitous local nuisance -- the fire ant.But another wave of critters with a potentially ir

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  • March 12, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    California High Court Finds Insurers Liable for Cleanup Costs in Long-Running Environmental Disaster Case

    We don't often lament not having studied insurance law, but it sure would have come in handy when we read the California Supreme Co

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  • Kings County Second Department SUPREME COURT,

    Publication Date: 2012-01-20
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    Non-Jury Settlement Trl PtMoses v. Dumont (22988/09)—Motion DeniedJustice Rachel Amy AdamsAlexandre v. Alexandre (52217/10)&

  • January 16, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Donald E. Hill of Godwin Pappas Langley Ronquillo has been promoted to partner. His practice focuses on litigation and insurance law. William D. Cramer, a registere

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  • Esther Kiobel, individually and on behalf of her late husband, Dr. Barinem Kiobel, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, 06-4800-cv

    Publication Date: 2010-09-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Jacobs, Ch.J, Leval, and Cabranes, C.JJ
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Hoffman, Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, LLP, Venice, CA (Stephen A. Whinston, Carey R. D?Avino, Keino R. Robinson, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees. Jeffrey J. Keyes, Briggs and Morgan, P.A., Minneapolis, MN (Mark Girouard, Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for amici curiae International Law Professors in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Naomi Roht-Arriaza, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae International Law Scholars Cherif Bassiouni, et al. in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Judith Brown Chomsky (Jennifer M. Green, on the brief), Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY (Marcos Simons, Richard Herz, Earthrights International, Washington, DC, on the brief), for amici curiae Wiwa Plaintiffs in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Rowan D. Wilson (Rory O. Millson, Thomas G. Rafferty, Michael T. Reynolds, on the brief), Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

    Case Number: 06-4800-cv

    Cite as: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 06-4800-cv, NYLJ 1202472235126, at *1a,2a (2d Cir., Decided September 17, 2010)Before: Jacobs, Ch.J, Leval, and Ca

  • October 20, 2005 | Legal Times

    On the Record With Walter Bardenwerper, GC of Watson Wyatt

    Walter Bardenwerper is vice president, general counsel and secretary of Watson Wyatt, a global human capital and financial management consulting firm based in Arlington, Va. The firm speciali

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  • May 27, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Place Finisher Age Time

    1 Andrew Cleary 33 16:11 2 Stuart Calderwood 45 16:40 3 Neill Clark 31 17:00 4 Josh Irvan 32 17:12 5 Frank Maneri 41 17:17 6 Ron Evans 36 17:36

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  • Queens County Second Department SUPREME COURT,

    Publication Date: 2012-11-21
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    TbaAmin v. Diaz (30485/10)—Motion WithdrawnCam v. Cornerstein (6056/11)—Motion WithdrawnDeturris v. Kalra (21039/11)

  • May 3, 2000 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The Ever-Changing World of Lateral Hires

    When Cathy Abelson started her career as a legal recruiter in the early 1980s, the phrase "lateral hire" was a foreign one to law firm managers. "We had to explain what we meant when we said

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