• March 5, 2003 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    KEKER BOWS OUT OF BROBECK BREACH CASEBrobeck, Phleger & Harrison and former partners Debra Pole and William Fitzgerald can no longer rely on Keker & Van Nest to defend t

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  • October 22, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Allied-Honeywell's $17.6 Million Payout a Record

    "It's unusual for the National Labor Relations Act to be this effective in terms of getting money to people," said Hartford, Conn., plaintiffs' employment lawyer Thomas W. Meiklejohn, who b

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  • August 2, 2001 |

    Pepsi's Quaker Buy Clears FTC

    A sharply split U.S. Federal Trade Commission decided Aug. 1 not to challenge PepsiCo Inc.'s $13.9 billion acquisition of Chicago, Ill.-based Quaker Oats Co., maker of the popular Gatorade spo

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  • April 16, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Fox Hunts for Partners Left Behind by Growing Firms

    It isn't a secret that the largest law firms are shedding -- or losing, depending on how one looks at it -- lawyers who don't meet their evolving economic criteria. And Fox Rothschild is mak

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  • April 25, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    American/US AirwaysWilliam Douglas Parker finally signed up an agreement to merg irways Group Inc. with another major airline after years of trying. Th

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  • December 12, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Does Federal Government Rescue Create Fiduciary Duties?

    Delaware courts have emphasized that for an entity to be liable for b of fiduciary duty owed to a corporation, it must have control over that corporation, as the "very essence of a b

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  • April 23, 2003 | The Recorder

    A Brobeck Staffer's Story

    Robert McCaffrey knew Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison was in trouble.The night staffer in Brobeck's document processing center handled a flood of paperwork that deluged the firm every

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  • September 5, 2001 |

    Hewlett-Packard May Have to License Compaq Name

    Hewlett-Packard Co. could be forced to license the Compaq brand name to win antitrust approval for its $25 billion acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp.Antitrust lawyers said the unusua

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  • July 22, 2005 | National Law Journal

    More Charges Under Age-Old Securities Laws

    Not too long ago, the biggest worry among securities defense lawyers was the flurry of class actions that seemed to accompany every negative piece of corporate news. Not anymore. These days, d

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  • July 10, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

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    Class-Action Status AllowedIn Travel Agents' Pay SuitThe plaintiff alleged that the company violated the Minimum Wage Act or the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law by paying

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