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  • January 1, 2006 |

    Pre-Certification Discovery of Absent Class Members

    The battle for class certification makes or breaks many lawsuits. Often, the certification decision hinges on whether there are questions of law or fact common to the class and whether the claims a

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  • July 1, 2002 | Legal Times

    When Lawyers Sit on Boards

    With corporate scandals abundant, this much is clear: When it comes to corporate governance, gray areas aren't good. In the past few months, the Securities and Exchange Commission has called upon t

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  • November 14, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Mutual Fund Probe Keeps 40 Act Lawyers Busy

    In the 1980s, the defense industry was the subject of public scrutiny. Then came the savings and loan and health care scandals. And most recently, the Enron and WorldCom collapses placed inten

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  • December 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Russian Revolutionaries

    Dimitry Afanasiev would like to get a few things straight. Russian president Vladimir Putin is not a dictator, and not everyone with money in Russia is a crook. Fed up with what he sees as the

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  • August 18, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Two Setbacks For Lawsuit Financing

    The business of litigation finance is battered but upright after taking a beating in two courtrooms in the past year. The business of litigation finance is battered but upright after t

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  • June 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    American
US Airways William Douglas Parker finally signed an agreement to merg irways Group Inc. with another major airline after years of trying. Th

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  • July 17, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Lead Plaintiff Pick Rejected as Merely 'Pawn of Counsel'

    A federal judge has rejected a proposed co-lead plaintiff for the Monster Worldwide Inc. securities fraud class action because the representative knew nothing about the case. Southern Distr

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  • July 23, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Where Is the Capital of Capital Markets Practice?

    Law firms heavy into capital markets certainly weren't the envy of the industry when finance took a nosedive last year. But now firms aren't afraid to say they have an interest in the area.

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  • August 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Fading Away

    On a Monday morning in early March, two associates sat in an East Coast office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius discussing a firmwide e-mail from chairman Francis Mil

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  • February 27, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    Carnegie Mellon v. Marvell TechnologyDouglas Greenswag and Patrick McElhinny of K&L Gates rocked the technology world o

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