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  • April 4, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

    Contract-Assumption Defense Can Aid Creditors

    Preference suits in bankruptcy cases continue to annoy most creditors. However, lawyers for creditors can reduce or even eliminate their clients' preference exposure by using a relatively unknown p

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  • January 21, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Weil Gotshal Bankruptcy Partner Joins Dewey Dewey & LeBoeuf's efforts to build a sought-after bankruptcy practice took another significant step yesterd

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  • Winchester Global Trust Co. Ltd. v Donovan

    Publication Date: 2009-01-27
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    Case Number: 2007-08089

    Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department STEVEN W. FISHER, J.P. HOWARD MILLER EDWARD D. CARNI RUTH C. BALKIN

  • April 19, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Paul Kellogg has become a partner in Hughes Watters Askanase in Houston. . . . James E. Davis has joined

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  • Vigiletti v Sears, Roebuck Co.

    Publication Date: 2007-07-17
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    DAVID S. RITTER, J.P. GLORIA GOLDSTEIN STEVEN W. FISHER RUTH C. BALKIN, JJ. Kenneth Vigiletti, etc., et al., appellants, v Sears, Roebuck & Co., respondent. (Ind

  • January 8, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Nixon Peabody Names New Managing Partner Nixon Peabody has named a new managing partner. Richard F. Langan will take over as the firm's leader in May, when current managing part

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  • December 3, 2002 | Corporate Counsel

    In re Simon II Smokers' Class Action

    Years after concluding their historic settlement with state attorneys general, cigarette makers are still steeped in a thick cloud of litigation. Brooklyn, New York, federal judge Jack Weinste

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  • December 7, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Judge Finds More Problems with Oracle Damages Estimate in Java Megasuit Against Google

    The battle of the Larrys has become the battle of the damages experts. A few weeks ago, citing schedule conflicts, San Francisco federal district court judge William Alsup pushed back the

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  • People v Adams

    Publication Date: 2007-04-26
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    Decided and Entered: April 26, 2007 501496 ________________________________ In the Matter of the PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, by ELIOT SPITZER, as Attorney General of

  • February 25, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    In re Managed Care Litigation

    Managed care companies think that the maxim "do no harm" doesn't apply to them, at least according to some doctors. In late September a federal judge in Miami granted class certificati

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