• March 8, 2010 | Legal Tech Newsletter

    Going Solo? Get a Practice Management System

    The economic turmoil of the past two years has had a dramatic impact on those of us who chose a career in the private practice of law. For many attorneys, these conditions have created an ideal tim

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  • Parmalat Capital Finance Ltd v. Bank of America Corp., 09-4302-cv

    Publication Date: 2012-02-23
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Cabranes and Wesley, C.JJ., and Koeltl, D.J.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellant Parmalat Capital Finance Limited: J. Gregory Taylor, Allan B. Diamond, J. Benjamin King, Diamond McCarthy LLP. For Appellant Dr. Enrico Bondi: Kathleen M. Sullivan, Peter E. Calamari, Terry L. Wit, Sanford I. Weisburst, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Appellees Grant Thornton International, Inc. and Grant Thornton International Ltd: James L. Bernard, David M. Cheifetz, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, New York, NY. For Appellee Grant Thornton LLP: Linda T. Coberly, Bruce R. Braun, William P. Ferranti, Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, IL. *1

    Case Number: 09-4302-cv

    Cite as: Parmalat Capital Finance Ltd v. Bank of America Corp., 09-4302-cv, NYLJ 1202543153587, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided February 21, 2012)Before: Cabranes

  • January 17, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New Partners Kilpatrick Stockton (Atlanta): Armand DeKeyser comes on board as executive director of the government relations group in the firm's Washington office.

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  • March 25, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Federal Circuit deems cross-appeal by Apotex a 'particularly egregious' attempt to 'game the system'

    A generic pharmaceutical company's move to preserve litigation options in case an appellate court reversed its lower court win on one set of grounds was "particularly egregious,"

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  • February 27, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    The Growing Pains of an IP Practice

    When Morgan, Lewis & Bockius scooped up Dennis Mondolino's 35-lawyer patent boutique in 2001, it was supposed to be a feather in the cap for the firm and its intellectual property practice. The

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  • June 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Clock Runs Out in U.S. Bribery Suit Over Azerbaijan Oil

    The clock has run out on the government's bribery prosecution of two defendants who sought inside deals on the privatization of the Republic of Azerbaijan's oil industry. In a href

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  • October 13, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Google Books: Scanning the Future

    It was a tough summer for the Google book search settlement. The proposed deal, which would give Google Inc. the right to scan and display millions of copyrighted books, was lambasted as anticompetiti

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  • August 10, 2004 | Alm

    Judge Skeptical of Clifford Deal With Brobeck

    Clifford Chance isn't off the hook yet in litigation that has arisen from the collapse of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison. At a hearing in San Francisco on Friday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judg

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  • February 23, 2004 | Legal Times

    Leaders of the PAC: The Price of Politics

    When Elliott Portnoy joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in 2002 to build the firm's new federal lobbying practice, he believed that a major component of his success would be a flush po

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  • May 5, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Thelen's Profits Up, But Partners Out

    The bicoastal firm Thelen Reid & Priest has a lot to crow about. Fiscal year 2005 saw profits jump by a third, growth unparalleled since the firm was created in a 1998 merger. Both average

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