• March 9, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Large Law Firms Defend Guantanamo Lawyers

    WASHINGTON - The intensifying flap over U.S. Department of Justice lawyers who have advocated for Guantanamo Bay detainees is spilling over into large law firms, where some leaders are fighting bac

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  • July 28, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Benefits of Being Diverse

    Corporations across the country have begun to extend benefits to their employees' same-sex partners over the past decade, and Texas' top firms have slowly begun to follow suit.Fifteen

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  • August 16, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    State Wins Unclaimed Bottle Returns

    In tough economic times you can often find someone scrounging around for extra bottles and cans in hopes those five-cent refunds will add up. So as state lawmakers looked for ways aft

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  • May 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Deals in Brief: Powering Up

    It was a busy winter in the energy patch. The sector saw the announcements of two significant asset sales and an $8.5 billion electric utility merger. (There was also one dea

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  • March 16, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Critical Patent Issue in eBay Case

    WASHINGTON � Nearly a hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court examined injunctions for halting patent violations in a case about paper bags. The justices this month will consider the same is

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  • March 20, 2013 | Legaltech News

    Viewabill Software Aims to Make Legal Bills Transparent

    Legal professionals — lawyers, paralegals, forensics experts, investigators, researchers and librarians, for example — sometimes face an uphill battle when it comes to billi

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  • Alameda County Flood Control, etc. v. Department Of Water Resources

    Publication Date: 2013-02-19
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-02-15
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, John S. Poulos, Amy L. Pierce, Darcy L. Muilenburg; Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Greg L. Johnson; Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard and Edward J. Tiedemann, for Plaintiffs and Appellants Alameda County Flood Control & Water Conservation District Zone 7, Alameda County Water District, City of Yuba City, County of Butte, County of Kings, Empire West Side Irrigation District, Kern County Water Agency, Napa County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, Oak Flat Water District, Plumas County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, Santa Clara Valley Water District, Solano County Water Agency, and Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District. Amelia T. Minaberrigarai, for Plaintiff and Appellant Kern County Water Agency.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General of California, Denise Ferkich Hoffman, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Matthew J. Goldman and Vera Sandronsky, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent, State of California, Department of Water Resources. Bingham McCutchen LLP, James J. Dragna, Colin C. West and Thomas S. Hixson, for Defendants, Interveners and Appellants Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency, Castaic Lake Water Agency, Central Coast Water Authority, Coachella Valley Water District, Crestline-Lake Arrowhead Water Agency, Desert Water Agency, Littlerock Creek Irrigation District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Mojave Water Agency, Palmdale Water District, San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District, San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District, San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency, and United Water Conservation District. Best Best & Krieger LLP and Robert M. Sawyer, for Defendant, Intervener and Appellant, Ventura County Watershed Protection District. Marcia L. Scully, John Schlotterbeck, Heather C. Beatty and Karen L. Tachiki for Defendant, Intervener and Appellant, The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

    Case Number: No. C065522

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 1904ALAMEDA COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL, ETC. et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants,v.DEPARTMENT

  • Tray Wrap, Inc. v. Pacific Tomato Growers Ltd., 26782/03

    Publication Date: 2008-02-25
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2008-01-25
    Court: Supreme Court, Bronx County
    Judge: Nelson Roman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 26782/03

    Justice Nelson S. Roman BRONX COUNTY Supreme Court Attorney for Plaintiff Tray Wrap: Linda Strumph, Esq. Attorneys for Defendant Florida Fruit and Vegetable As

  • Lax v. 29 Woodmere Boulevard Owners, Inc., 10-CV-4008 (JFB) (WDW)

    Publication Date: 2011-10-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court, Eastern District
    Judge: District Judge Joseph F. Bianco
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Plaintiff is represented by Michael Todd Parker, Moskowitz & Book LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: The attorney for the Woodmere defendants is David A. Boyar, D'Amato & Lynch, Center, New York, NY. The attorney for the Berkowitz defendants is Andrew E. Curto, Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo, Carlino & Cohn, LLP, Mineola, NY.

    Case Number: 10-CV-4008 (JFB) (WDW)

    Cite as: Lax v. 29 Woodmere Boulevard Owners, Inc., 10-CV-4008 (JFB) (WDW), NYLJ 1202517484621, at *1 (EDNY, Decided September 23, 2011)District Judge Jos

  • January 13, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Globe Surgical Supply, appellant v. GEICO Insurance Co., respondent

    Decided Dec. 30, 2008 Before Spolzino, J.P., Florio, Miller, Dickerson, JJ APPEALS by the plaintiff, as limited by its brief, from (1) so much of an order of the Supre

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