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  • June 11, 2012 | National Law Journal

    All the Right Moves

    In 1976, Rick Burleson had a decision to make: join the Kansas City Chiefs or go to law school. Burleson, defensive end for the University of Texas Longhorns at the time, was a sixth-round dr

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  • ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. v. Goldman, 650027/11

    Publication Date: 2013-05-16
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    Court: Appellate Division, First Department
    Judge: Before: Friedman, J.P., Renwick, Manzanet-Daniels, Román, Clark, JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellant: Richard H. Klapper of Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York.
    for defendant: For Respondent: Marc E. Kasowitz of Counsel, Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP, New York.
    Case Number: 650027/11

    Cite as: ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. v. Goldman, 650027/11, NYLJ 1202600223208, at *1 (App. Div., 1st, Decided May 14, 2013)Before: Friedman, J.P., Renwi

  • October 15, 2012 | National Law Journal

    INADMISSIBLE

    OUT TO THE BALLGAME, FAR FROM THE BILLABLES Some Washington attorneys put their billable hours on hold on October 10 to take in the first baseball playof

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  • June 6, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Obama Signals Resolve To Win Confirmations Of D.C. Circuit Picks

    President Obama used the announcement of three nominations to a key appeals court Tuesday to strike a new, more aggressive tone. The move ultimately could determine the size of the imprint hi

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  • March 5, 2013 | The Recorder

    Food Label Cases Go to 'Food Court'

    Across the Bay Area, corporate attorneys with degrees from top law schools are considering the nutritional content of corn chips.And in their chambers, federal judges are in deep conte

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  • April 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Fixing Freddie Mac

    While attending an executive training conference a few years ago, Robert Bostrom studied the case of Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage financing company that had endured a multibillion-dollar

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  • October 22, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    The Counsel You Keep

    When William Lytton arrived at scandal-ridden Tyco International Ltd., in September 2002, he faced a ton of work. As the new general counsel, Lytton inherited an internal investigation of the

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  • Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

    Publication Date: 2012-12-26
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    Date Filed: 2012-12-26
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Michael Daly Hawkins, M. Margaret McKeown, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Colin C. O'Brien (argued), Earthjustice, Anchorage, Alaska; Eric P. Jorgensen, Earthjustice, Juneau, Alaska, for Petitioners.
    for defendant: Ignacio S. Moreno, Daniel Pinkston (argued), Alan D. Greenberg, United States Department of Justice, Denver, Colorado, for Respondent. Kathleen M. Sullivan (argued), William B. Adams, David S. Mader, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, New York, New York; Duane A. Siler, Sarah C. Bordelon, Tony G. Mendoza, Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C., for Intervenors-Respondents. Lisa E. Jones, Samuel B. Boxerman, and James R. Wedeking, Sidley Austin, LLP, Washington, D.C., Mara E. Zimmerman, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae American Petroleum Institute. Cameron M. Leonard, Office of the Attorney General, Fairbanks, Alaska, for Amicus Curiae State of Alaska.
    Case Number: No. 12-70518

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 14049RESISTING ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION ON INDIGENOUS LANDS, REDOIL; ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE; CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; NATUR

  • October 18, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Score: NBA Union's Legal Bills Keep Piling Up

    With a new National Basketball Association season set to begin on October 29, The Am Law Daily decided to tally the latest batch of legal fees amassed by the NBA players’ union in conn

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  • In re Western States Wholesale Natural Gas Antitrust Litigation

    Publication Date: 2013-04-11
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    Date Filed: 2013-04-10
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Philip M. Pro, District Judge, Presiding Before: Carlos T. Bea and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges, and Willliam K. Sessions, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Gille Bacon (argued), William E. Quirk, and Gregory M. Bentz, Polsinelli Shughart PC, Kansas City, Missouri, for Appellants Learjet, Inc., et al., Heartland Regional Medical Center, et al., Breckenridge Brewery of Colorado, LLC, et al., Reorganized FLI, Inc., and Sinclair Oil Corporation. Robert L. Gegios, Alexander T. Pendleton, and William E. Fischer, Kohner, Mann & Kailas, S.C., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for Wisconsin Plaintiffs-Appellants. Mark E. Haddad (argued), Michelle B. Goodman, and Nitin Reddy, Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees CMS Energy Corp., CMS Energy Resources Management Co., and Cantera Gas Company.
    for defendant: Michael J. Kass and Douglas R. Tribble, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendants-Appellees Dynegy Marketing & Trade, Dynegy Illinois, Inc., DMT G.P. L.L.C., and Dynegy GP Inc. Joshua D. Lichtman, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Los Angeles, California, and Roxanna A. Manuel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, for Defendant-Appellee Coral Energy Resources, L.P. Joel B. Kleinman, Adam Proujanski, and Lisa M. Kaas, Dickstein Shapiro LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendants­Appellees Duke Energy Trading and Marketing, L.L.C. and Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC. Robert B. Wolinsky, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C., and Steven J. Routh, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees American Electric Power Company, Inc. and AEP Energy Services, Inc. Brent A. Benoit and Stacy Williams, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, Houston, Texas, for Defendants-Appellees El Paso Corporation, El Paso Merchant Energy, L.P., and El Paso Marketing, L.P. Amelia A. Fogleman, Oliver S. Howard, and Craig A. Fitzgerald, Gable Gotwals, A Professional Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Defendants-Appellees ONEOK, Inc., ONEOK Energy Services Company L.P. J. Gregory Copeland and Mark R. Robeck, Baker Botts LLP, Houston, Texas, for Defendant-Appellee Reliant Energy Services, Inc. Graydon Dean Luthey, Jr. and Sarah Jane Gillett, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Defendants-Appellees The Williams Companies, Inc., Williams Merchant Services Company, Inc., Williams Power Company, Inc., and Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Company. Michael John Miguel, K & L Gates LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees Xcel Energy, Inc., e prime, inc., e prime Energy Marketing, Inc., and Northern States Power Company.
    Case Number: No. 11-16786, No. 11-16798, No. 11-16799, No. 11-16802, No. 11-16818, No. 11-16821, No. 11-16869, No. 11-16876, No. 11-16880

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 3875IN RE: WESTERN STATES WHOLESALE NATURAL GAS ANTITRUST LITIGATION,LEARJET, INC.; TOPEKA UNIFIED S