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  • March 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Gilead Pharmasset Gilead Sciences, Inc., agreed to pay $11 billion in cash for Pharmasset, Inc., on November 21, 2011, to acquire the target's treatments for hepatitis C, also

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  • July 24, 2009 | Law.com Corporate

    Candidates Who Passed The July 2009 NYS Bar Exam

    More than 88 percent of graduates of American Bar Association-approved law schools who sat for the first time for the July 2009 bar exam passed the test. The 88.2 percent rate i

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  • February 20, 2009 | Law.com Corporate

    Candidates Who Passed The February 2009 NYS Bar Exam

    The New York State Board of Law Examiners announced yesterday that grading has been completed for the February 2009 bar examination. Graduates of ABA-approved law schools taking

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  • July 17, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Corporate Securities

    Fairer, quicker elections are held in Zimbabwe. The bitter CSX proxy fight, which was scheduled to have been resolved at CSX's June 25 shareholders' meeting, may finally reach a definiti

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  • September 5, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Attorney's Fees: To Advance or Not to Advance?

    The criminal and civil litigation of the post-Enron era have raised tough questions over who should pay the often multimillion-dollar defense costs of current and former corporate executives c

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  • In Re: Indymac Mortgage-Backed Securities Litigation

    Publication Date: 2012-11-15
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    Court: U. S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Lewis Kaplan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit: Denis F. Sheils, Joseph C. Kohn, William E. Hoese, Kohn, Swift & Graf., P.C., Lawrence P. Kolker, Gregory M. Nespole, Rachel S. Poplock, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP., Steven J. Toll, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC., Attorneys for Plaintiff City of Philadelphia Board of Pensions and Retirement: Ira N. Richards Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards, LLC, Timothy J. MacFall Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. Attorneys for Lead Plaintiffs Wyoming State Treasurer and Wyoming Retirement System: Daniel E. Barenbaum, Nicole C. Lavallee, Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr., Patrick T. Egan, Anthony D. Phillips, Julie Goldsmith Reiser, Berman Devalerio.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Individual Defendants: Eric R. Levine, Eric Aschkenasy, Eiseman Levine Lehrhaupt & Kakoyiannis, P.C., Michael W. Fitzgerald, Robert L. Corbin, Joel M. Athey, Corbin, Fitzgerald & Athey LLP Robert H. Fairbank, Kimberly M. West, Richard D. Gluck, Michael B. Norman, Fairbank & Vincent Attorneys for Underwriter Defendants: Dean J. Kitchens Robert F. Serio, Jonathan C. Dickey, Aric H. Wu, Eric M. Creizman, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Attorneys for Defendant IndyMac MBS, Inc.: William R. Stein, Scott H. Christensen, Kenneth M. Katz, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP.
    Case Number: 09 Civ. 4583 (LAK)

    Cite as: In Re: Indymac Mortgage-Backed Securities Litigation, 09 Civ. 4583 (LAK), NYLJ 1202578466408, at *1 (SDNY, Decided August 17, 2012)District Judge

  • Marland v. Heysel, 08 Civ. 3751

    Publication Date: 2008-09-30
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    Date Filed: 2008-09-19
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Lewis Kaplan
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    for defendant:
    Case Number: 08 Civ. 3751

    District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Appearances: Attorneys for Plaintiff: Andrew W. Hayes Hayes &

  • March 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    U.S. v. Countrywide et al. On February 9, Bank of America Corporation agreed to pay $1 billion to settle a federal probe

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  • August 21, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Rakoff's Reading of One Word Bolsters Anti-Fraud Effort

    As part of its crusade against bank fraud, the Southern District U.S. Attorney's Office is relying on a once-obscure federal statute called the Financial Institutional Reform, Recove

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  • March 8, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Jacoby & Meyers Defeated in Court Fight to Seek Outside Investors in New York

    A day after a federal judge in New Jersey allowed a similar lawsuit filed by the firm to proceed, a federal judge in New York on Thursday dismissed a suit in which Jacoby & Meyers chall

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