• October 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

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  • November 13, 2000 | Legal Times

    Liberal Lobbies Not Rallying Around Nader

    Ralph Nader ran as an outsider who was going to drag the dissatisfied left into a new progressive party. But he may have accomplished exactly the opposite -- strengthening the nascent coalitio

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  • Lago Agrio v. Chevron Corporation, 10-4341-cv

    Publication Date: 2010-12-16
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: José A. Cabranes, Denny Chin, C.JJ.; Edward R. Korman, D.J.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: FOR PETITIONERS-APPELLEES: RANDY M. MASTRO (Andrea E. Neuman, William E. Thomson and Scott A. Edelman, on the brief), Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY, Irvine, CA, and Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner-Appellee Chevron Corporation. ANDRÉS RIVERO (Jorge A. Mestre and Paul E. Dans, on the brief), Rivero Mestre, LLP, Miami, FL, for Petitioner-Appellee Rodrigo Pérez Pallares. ALAN VINEGRAD (Jason P. Criss and Natalie MacLean Leino, on the brief), Covington & Burling LLP, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellee Ricardo Reis Veiga.
    for defendant: FOR RESPONDENTS-APPELLANTS: JAMES E. TYRRELL, JR., Patton Boggs LLP, New York, NY; and Ilann M. Maazal (Jonathan S. Abady, O. Andrew F. Wilson, and Adam R. Pulver, on the brief), Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, New York, NY, for Respondents-Appellants the Lago Agrio Plaintiffs. BRUCE S. KAPLAN (Robert D. Kaplan, on the brief), Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP, New York, NY, for Respondent-Appellant Donziger.

    Case Number: 10-4341-cv

    Cite as: Lago Agrio v. Chevron Corporation, 10-4341-cv, NYLJ 1202476234443, at *1 (2d, Cir, Decided December 15, 2010)Before: José A. Cabranes, Denny

  • June 2, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Brief of the Week

    Add famed Mississippi trial lawyer Paul Minor, now serving prison time in Oklahoma, to the list of federal prosecutors, defense lawyers, business execs and public officials anxiously awaiting t

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  • September 6, 1999 | National Law Journal

    L.A. firms top N.Y.'s in coastal warfare

    Los Angeles--Coffee shops in the lawyer-dense Bunker Hill complex here no longer offer egg creams, and on a typical Monday morning there's not a French cuff to be seen among the hordes of suits rid

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  • April 18, 2012 | Litigation Daily

    Susan Beck's Summary Judgment: The Good News and Bad News From Our Litigation Department of the Year Contest

    A few hours after I finish writing this column, I'll be attending the award ceremony for The American Lawyer's biennial Li

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  • September 21, 2006 | The Recorder

    Raising Money to Spend Money

    RAISING MONEY TO SPEND MONEYAt first glance, Cortina Systems Inc.'s $115 million acquisition of Intel Corp.'s optical networking components business appeared to be a straightfor

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  • February 8, 2006 | Daily Business Review

    Large Miami Firms Boost Associate Pay by Nearly 10 Percent

    After several years of stability, some major South Florida law firms are significantly raising first-year pay for associates. But not by the dramatic amounts seen in the pay hike epidemic of 2000.

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  • May 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Motherless Invention

    Supreme Court justices appeared reluctant on March 21 to decide a key patent law case in a way that would, as one justice put it, establish "monopolies in this country beyond belief" over natu

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  • October 24, 2006 | National Law Journal

    'Rambus' Ruling Is a Standards Landmark

    With a single stroke, the Federal Trade Commission may have restored the value of the handshake and good-faith promise among high-tech competitors, yet opened the doors to potential new litigat

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