• November 3, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

    AkinMears Drops Motion to Seal Petition

    A Houston mass tort firm dropped its effort to seal a petition filed against the firm by a former employee who alleges he's owed $4.2 million in commissions and fees for work raising money for the firm.

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  • November 2, 2015 | National Law Journal

    INADMISSIBLE: 'R.B.G.' Embraces Her Cultural Brand

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has an admission to make: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sharper at intellectual property law than he is. "My judgment is often guided c

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  • November 1, 2015 | National Law Journal

    INADMISSIBLE: 'R.B.G.' Embraces Her Cultural Brand

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has an admission to make: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sharper at intellectual property law than he is. Plus more in this week's column.

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  • People v. Eugene Francis, 11-00329

    Publication Date: 2015-10-26
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    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department
    Judge: Before: Mastro, J.P., Balkin, Miller, Duffy, JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For appellant: Andrew W. Sayegh, Yonkers, N.Y.
    for defendant: For respondent: Catalina Blanco Buitrago and Steven A. Bender of counsel, Janet DiFiore, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y.

    Case Number: 11-00329

    Cite as: People v. Francis, 11-00329, NYLJ 1202740548433, at *1 (App. Div., 2nd, Decided October 21, 2015)CASE NAMEThe People of the State of New York, Respond

  • October 20, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

    Ex-Employee of AkinMears Sues Firm, Alleges Millions Owed

    A Harris County judge has temporarily sealed a petition filed by a former employee of Houston mass tort firm AkinMears who alleges that the plaintiffs firm fired him in July because it didn't

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  • October 16, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    Big Texas Firms Face New Competitors at Home

    Texas firms are having to work even harder to compete in their own backyard. In the latest sign that Vinson & Elkins, Baker Botts and others are being forced to respond to the influx of

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  • October 16, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

    New Associates List

    Justine L. Abrams Firm: Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, Woodbridge Born: Oct. 31, 1988 Practice Areas: Family law Joined Firm: September, 2015 Clerkships: Hon.

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  • October 13, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

    Legal Strategies for Tough Times in the Energy Sector

    The price of oil has declined steeply since July 2014, when it was around $100 per barrel. In addition, the global oil and gas industry so far has been dealing with a challenging 2015, and 20

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  • Stanislaus Food Products Company v. USS-POSCO Industries

    Publication Date: 2015-10-13
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    Date Filed: 2015-10-13
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Lawrence J. O'Neill, District Judge, Presiding Before: M. Margaret McKeown, Mary H. Murguia, and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Berstein, Eric B. Fastiff (argued), Dean M. Harvey, and Marc A. Pilotin, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstain, LLP, San Francisco, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: James C. Martin (argued), P. Gavin Eastgate, and Michelle A. Mantine, Reed Smith, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Daniel I. Booker and Alexander Y. Thomas, Reed Smith LLP, Washington, D.C.; J. Michael Jarboe, United States Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Allan Steyer, D. Scott Macrae, and Gabriel D. Zeldin, Steyer Lowenthal Boodrookas Alvarez & Smith, San Francisco, California; Rex S. Heinke and Reginald D. Steer, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, San Francisco, California; and Steven M. Pesner and Nicholas Adams, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 13-15475

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 11195 STANISLAUS FOOD PRODUCTS COMPANY, a California corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v.

  • October 13, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

    Legal Strategies for Tough Times in the Energy Sector

    Joshua Agrons, a partner in the Houston office of Norton Rose Fulbright; Steven Otillar, a partner in the Houston office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; and Jennifer Price, a solo and former partner in the Houston office of King & Spalding, share their insights about advising energy-related clients in today's volatile economic environment.

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