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  • March 12, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Rail Removal Ruled Contrary To Public Policy

    THE CITY violated public policy laws when it devised a plan to demolish an abandoned elevated rail track that runs from Hell's Kitchen to the Meat Packing District, a Manhattan judge ruled yesterda

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  • September 10, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Will Michael Chertoff Be the Next Attorney General?

    Lawyers had wildly different responses when asked about the prospect of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff replacing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Liberal talk radio has given

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  • September 1, 1999 | The Recorder

    PAY HIKES IN L.A.

    O'Melveny & Myers and the L.A. office of San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe have announced new base salaries. O'Melveny rookies will now pull in a base figure of $96,000, up from

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  • March 20, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Producing Those Documents

    Litigators have seen massive changes in the past two decades. Perhaps some of the greatest technological changes have taken place in the time-honored discovery tradition of document production

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  • March 31, 2003 | National Law Journal

    A Brand Everyone Knows

    NAME AND TITLE: Robert Hollweg, vice president, general counsel and secretaryAGE: 60LESS IS MORE: Weight Watchers International Inc. sounds more like a soc

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  • May 2, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    Texas' Top Deals of 2004

    TXU CORP. Debt Issuance Description: TXU Corp., the Dallas-based energy company, issued $3.5 billion in senior notes in a private placement, with some of the proceeds use

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  • October 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    In Re Swipe Fee LitigationVisa Inc., MasterCard Incorporated, and a group of credit card–issuing banks agreed on

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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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