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  • February 25, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Blackstone Group / TRW Automotive

    The yearlong dissolution of TRW Inc. — once a mighty $12 billion conglomerate — finally drew to an end in late 2002 when Northrop Grumman Corporation sold TRW Automotive Inc.

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  • October 22, 2007 | Legal Times

    New Study Suggests Veteran Advocates Sway Supreme Court

    For the elite of the Supreme Court Bar, this is the Gilded Age. Or call it the Age of the Guild.The Court's docket continues to shrink. Yet dramatic new research by Georgetown University Law

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  • October 15, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Baker Botts, Cooley Beat Back Disgruntled Ex-CEO Suit

    Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of Delaware Chancery Court last week waded into an acrimonious dispute over the leadership of Allegro Development Corp., a software company based in Dallas.

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  • CSX Corporation v. The Children's Investment Fund Management (UK) LLP, 08-2899-cv (L)

    Publication Date: 2011-07-20
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Newman, Winter, and Calabresi, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee: Rory O. Millson (Francis P. Barron & David R. Marriott, on the brief), Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants: Christopher Landau, P.C. (Patrick F. Philbin & Theodore W. Ullyot, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, D.C.; Peter D. Doyle & Andrew M. Genser, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, New York; Howard O. Godnick & Michael E. Swartz, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, New York, New York, on the brief), Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, D.C. For Amicus Curiae Coalition of Private Investment Companies: Adam H. Offenhartz, Aric H. Wu & J. Ross Wallin, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae Former SEC Commissioners and Officials and Professors: Richard M. Lorenzo, James G. Szymanski & M. Alexander Bowie II, Day Pitney LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., and Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association: Katherine Tew Darras & Rosario Chiarenza, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., New York, New York; Ira D. Hammerman & Kevin M. Carroll, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Washington, D.C.; David M. Becker, Edward J. Rosen, Michael D. Dayan, Joon H. Kim & Shiwon Choe, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, New York & Washington, D.C. For Amicus Curiae Managed Funds Association: Roger D. Blanc, Martin Klotz & Richard D. Bernstein, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY. For Amici Curiae Washington Legal Foundation, National Association of Manufacturers & Business Roundtable: Daniel J. Popeo & Richard A. Samp, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C. *1
    Case Number: 08-2899-cv (L)

    Cite as: CSX Corporation v. The Children's Investment Fund Management (UK) LLP, 08-2899-cv (L), NYLJ 1202503282709, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided July 18, 2011)Before

  • September 25, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    11th Circuit Limits Nasdaq's Immunity

    By a 7-5 vote, the full 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a Florida lawyer to sue the Nasdaq Stock Market for more than $600,000 he says he lost by investing in WorldCom.

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  • April 13, 2012 | Law.com Corporate

    Muscle Milk Consumer Can Move Forward with False Advertising Class Action

    An Oakland, Calif., federal judge has allowed a purported class action to go forward alleging that the maker of Muscle Milk engaged in false advertising when it claimed that its product is a "nu

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  • July 19, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    Familiar Faces With Multiple Cases Address Court More and More

    When Carter Phillips rose to argue in the case of Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices Inc., on April 20, it was his fifth U.S. Supreme Court oral argument of the term, but something o

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  • December 3, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Jerome Falk, Jr., of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin

    When it comes to punitive damages, lawyers usually represent either clients who love them or clients who hate them. Jerome Falk represents both. On Monday the name partner at Howard Rice Nemerovski Ca

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  • March 6, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Chevron Foes in Ecuador Case Ask Second Circuit to Save Them from Judge Kaplan

    Chevron Corporation and its army of lawyers keep piling on more evidence of fraud and judicial corruption in their U.S. racketeering case against the plaintiffs lawyers who won a $19 billion

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  • January 23, 2004 | Legal Times

    Request Denied

    It's been almost five years since the demise of the law that empowered Kenneth Starr and almost 20 other independent counsel to probe allegations of government misconduct.But to the fo

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