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Firm Courts Preparation for Cases Posted 4/14/2005 02:42 PM Offutt, Fisher & Nord practices in its own realistic legal setting. Story by Jeff Pullin Email | Bio When D.C. Offutt Jr. visited a San Francisco law firm in the mid-1990s, he returned to his own firm with an idea that changed the way it handles […]

A note taped to a Moscow courthouse door was all that awaited the hundreds of family, friends, lawyers, journalists and human rights activists who arrived on Wednesday expecting to hear the verdict in the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man. The long-awaited judgment had been postponed to May 16, the note said without

A lawyer working for an oil-equipment company shot to death a fellow attorney while the two were sitting at a desk Thursday morning, then killed himself, police said. The victim, shot in the head, was a patent lawyer with Cooper Cameron oil services. The men’s names were not immediately released. Police said they were in

Now Morgan Stanley has another fight on its hands, and it all comes down to its failure to settle when it could have–or still might. Morgan Stanley said it’s appealing Monday’s $604 million jury verdict in a case brought by billionaire Ron Perelman, who claimed Morgan Stanley misled him in 1998 when he was selling

Three years ago, West Palm Beach, Fla., plaintiffs attorney Jack Scarola was coming off a big civil fraud suit against Prudential Insurance in which three of his clients had received only $66,106 in damages and nine others had received nothing. At the time, a dejected Scarola described the verdict as “the highest-profile defeat I’ve sustained.”

A Brooklyn appeals court has sanctioned Sullivan & Cromwell for engaging in “frivolous conduct” in its defense of a proposed class action suit over credit card late fees in Westchester County Supreme Court. In Naposki v. First National Bank of Atlanta, 2572/00, the Appellate Division, 2nd Department, ordered the firm to pay $5,000 to the

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear several appeals from media companies that wanted the court to restore regulations making it easier for newspaper and broadcast companies to combine. Without comment, justices let stand a lower court ruling that threw out the FCC regulations as unjustified. The media groups argued that the Philadelphia-based 3rd

A federal judge has declined to dismiss a civil suit brought by a husband and wife who claim that Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., offered a tax shelter the firms knew would be challenged by the Internal Revenue Service. Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin said William and Sharon Seippel’s complaint

Microsoft yesterday agreed to pay $775m to settle a long-running dispute with IBM which had accused it of predatory business practices. The settlement is part of Microsoft’s continuing efforts to clear away the litigation that has dogged it for much of the past 10 years. In the past couple of years the company has paid

Last Wednesday, W. Mark Lanier preached to a jury in Angleton, Tex., telling seven men and five women to remember the story of David and Goliath and smite the drug maker Merck with a verdict that would be heard around the world. On Friday, the jury fulfilled Mr. Lanier’s wishes, finding Merck liable for the