• July 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    WaMu Defendants To Settle Securities Claims for $208.5 Million

    Defendants targeted by shareholders of defunct Washington Mutual Inc. have agreed to pay $208.5 to settle securities fraud charges that they misled investors before the bank holding company collapsed

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  • April 6, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    IPO Securities Class Action (Finally) Settles for $586 Million

    On Monday afternoon word came that the long-running securities class action involving initial public offerings in the tech stock bubble (remember them?) a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/04/06/lo

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  • April 29, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Gibson Helps HP on $1.2B Palm Deal

    Hewlett-Packard, represented by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, has swooped in and acquired Palm Inc. for $1.2 billion. Palo Alto partner Russell Hansen led the Gibson, Dunn team on the deal.

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  • April 5, 2000 | The Recorder

    Bargain Basement?

    It may be the hottest IPO market in the world, but when it comes to the fees law firms charge to take a company public, the Silicon Valley is a relative bargain.For an average price of $420,

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  • May 24, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Grant Thornton Settles Claims from Winstar Bankruptcy

    With a trial date fast approaching, the auditing firm Grant Thornton LLP has partially settled long-standing claims that it covered up securities fraud by the failed telecom Winstar Communi

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  • June 24, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Sub-Prime Litigation: Who's Representing Who

    We've got some news in the department of who's representing who (or whom for you grammarians). In an auction-rate securities class action in the Northern District of California, defendant a href="htt

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  • May 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Teamwork Is Job 1

    Put yourself in the driver's seat of Ford Motor Company's legal department. There's a problem with one of the automaker's most important products: the Crown Victoria. Annual sales exceed $1 bi

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  • February 24, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Shoring Up a Faltering Shearman

    NEW YORK � With its illustrious history and posh name, Shearman & Sterling strikes many as the epitome of the patrician, white-shoe New York law firm.It is a perception the 1,013-l

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  • People v Alcequier

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    Andrias, J.P., Buckley, Catterson, Malone, Kavanagh, JJ. 1481 Ind. 1718/99 The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Ramon Alcequier, Defendant-Appe

  • May 7, 2001 | Texas Lawyer

    Power Trips

    Robert Albergotti, a bankruptcy partner in Haynes and Boone in Dallas, says he's a lucky man because he's getting a rare second chance to work on the case of a career.The first time wa

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