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  • October 2, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Judge Strives for Unique Remedy in 'Stand Out' Predatory Lending Case

    Judge Peter Doyne has presided over countless foreclosures, but the case of an Ecuadorean immigrant who claims he was duped into taking a mortgage he couldn't afford "stands out fro

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  • June 20, 2005 | The Recorder

    Convicted Lawyer May Be Reinstated

    Malcolm Wittenberg may soon be returning to the practice of law.Last week the California Supreme Court rejected the State Bar's petition to have the former Crosby, Heafey, Roach &

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  • June 28, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Supreme Court All Over the Map in 'Bilski'

    WASHINGTON — In the end, Bilski may have been a bust. After more than 60 briefs on both sides, oral arguments last November and an eight-month vigil for the ruling among

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  • December 21, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    For Big Law, It Was a Time of Sweeping Changes

    Beyond layoffs, deferrals, salary cuts and ending lockstep, the biggest story on the 2009 Pennsylvania law firm scene was one that perhaps best illustrated many of those trends — the demi

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  • September 10, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Dechert to Open Realty Finance Office in San Francisco

    After a rather lengthy search for the right opportunity, Dechert is opening a small San Francisco office focused on real estate finance that will be headed by a former partner.Joseph H

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  • USA v. Banki, 10-3381-cr

    Publication Date: 2011-10-26
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Cabranes, Pooler, and Chin, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: E. Danya Perry, Assistant United States Attorney (Katherine Polk Failla, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Kathleen M. Sullivan (Christine H. Chung, Marc L. Greenwald, William B. Adams, on the brief), Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, New York; Baruch Weiss, Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington, D.C.; Tai H.Park, Park & Jensen LLP, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 10-3381-cr

    Cite as: USA v. Banki, 10-3381-cr, NYLJ 1202520086641, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided October 24, 2011)Before: Cabranes, Pooler, and Chin,

  • December 23, 2009 | Bloomberg

    Firms slash year-end associate bonuses

    Law firms including Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom cut year-end bonuses for first-year lawyers by as much as 71 percent, part of a bid to keep client

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  • May 9, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Conrad O'Brien Co-Founder, Trial Lawyer, Dies

    William J. "Billy" O'Brien's skill as a trial lawyer was inimitable. "He could take his client's cause and make a jury relate to it quickly and better than any trial lawyer

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  • May 3, 2005 | Alm

    Md. Bankruptcy Results in Huge Legal Fees

    The hourly tab for a tax lawyer: $825. A corporate litigator: $810. A pack of law clerks and summer associates: $240 an hour, each. And that's just at Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

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  • September 5, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Economic downturn may lead to layoffs

    WITH THIS DIP in the economy and a potential credit crunch, some law firm leaders are predicting layoffs in what have been the most lucrative practice groups over the past four or so years-st

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