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  • November 7, 2011 | Alm

    Lawyers navigate social media minefield

    "For Halloween this year, I am going as a sensationalist over-blown media story." The message, sent out via Twitter Monday afternoon by Jill Filipovic, sums up in 79 characters a week

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  • June 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Familiar Faces

    What does the A-List really measure? In some ways it's like a decathlon for law firms, a contest that tests their strengths in a variety of exacting ways, although we've yet to a

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  • September 16, 2008 | Legal Times

    Lawyers are key in mortgage giants' rescue

    As Tropical Storm Hanna slammed Washington with heavy winds and 6 inches of rain on Sept. 6, a team of lawyers working for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae was hunkered down behind the closed doors

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  • August 16, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Plaintiffs Firms Eye Accusations Banks Manipulated Rates

    To plaintiffs firms, there are financial scandals, and then there is Libor. Libor, the London interbank offered rate, is a benchmark interest rate that serves as a foundation for

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  • February 1, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Caterpillar / Bucyrus Caterpillar Inc. is digging into the market for surface and underground mining equipment with its proposed $8.6 billion purchase of Bucyrus Internation

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  • NML Capital, Ltd., Plaintiffs-Appellees v. The Republic of Argentina, Defendant-Appellant, 12-105(L)

    Publication Date: 2012-10-29
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Pooler, B.D. Parker and Raggi, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee NML Capital, Ltd.: THEODORE B. OLSON (Matthew D. McGill, Jason J. Mendro, on the briefs), Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C.; Robert A. Cohen, Charles I. Poret, Eric C. Kirsch, Dechert LLP, New York, N.Y. For Plaintiff-Appellee NML Olifant Fund, Ltd: Stephen D. Poss, Robert D. Carroll, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA For Plaintiffs-Appellees Pablo Alberto Varela, et al.: Michael C. Spencer, Milberg LLP, New York, N.Y. For Plaintiffs-Appellees Aurelius Capital Master, Ltd., ACP Master, Ltd., Blue Angel Capital I LLC, and Aurelius Opportunities Master Fund II, LLC.: Edward A. Friedman, Daniel B. Rapport, Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP, New York, N.Y.; Jeffrey A. Lamken, MoloLamken LLP, Washington, D.C.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant The Republic of Argentina: JONATHAN I. BLACKMAN (Carmine D. Boccuzzi, Sara A. Sanchez, Michael M. Brennan, on the brief), Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, N.Y. For Amici Curiae Prof. Ronald Mann and EM Ltd., in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees: David W. Rivkin, Suzanne M. Grosso, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, N.Y.; Ronald Mann, Esq., pro se, New York, N.Y. For Amici Curiae Montreux Partners, L.P. and Wilton Capital, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees: Walter Rieman, Andrew W. Amend, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, N.Y. For Amicus Curiae the Washington Legal Foundation, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees: Richard A. Samp, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C. For Amicus Curiae Prof. Kenneth W. Dam, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees: Kevin S. Reed, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, N.Y. For Amicus Curiae the United States of America, in support of Defendant-Appellant: John D. Clopper (Jeannette A. Vargas, Sarah S. Norman, on the brief), Assistant United States Attorneys, for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, N.Y.; Stuart F. Delery, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Mark B. Stern, Sharon Swingle, Attorneys, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; George W. Madison, General Counsel, Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C.; Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Advisor, Department of State, Washington, D.C. For Amicus Curiae the Clearing House Association L.L.C., in support of Defendant-Appellant: Paul Saltzman, Joseph R. Alexander, H. Rodgin Cohen, Michael Wiseman, The Clearing House Association L.L.C., New York, N.Y.; Sergio J. Galvis, Joseph F. Neuhaus, Michael J. Ushkown, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, N.Y.
    Case Number: 12-105(L)

    Cite as: NML Capital, Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina, 12-105(L), NYLJ 1202576641567, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided October 26, 2012)Before: Pooler, B.D. Parker a

  • August 13, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Plaintiffs' bar banks on Libor

    To plaintiffs firms, there are financial scandals, and then there is Libor. Libor, the London interbank offered rate, is a benchmark interest rate that serves as a foundation for trill

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  • August 29, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    U.S. v. GSK In the largest health care fraud s ettlement in history, U.K. drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline plc agreed to pay a total of $

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  • June 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals and Suits

    AIG Asset Sales American International Group, Inc., took two large steps toward repaying its debt to the U.S. government in March. On the first

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  • April 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    ICENYSEInterContinentalExchange Inc. is hoping that a friendly deal to acquire NYSE Euronext achieves what a hostile bid could not. ICE agreed o

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