The Top 20 Firms Last Years Rank 1. Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, New York 1 2. Cravath Swaine & Moore, New York 2 3. Sullivan & Cromwell, New York 3 4. Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, New York 4 5. Jones Day, Cleveland 6 6. Baker & McKenzie, Chicago 7 7. Davis Polk […]
According to Mayer Brown chairman Tyrone Fahner, the US partners love Maher’s understated British humour (some of them have even drawn parallels with Hugh Grant). They find it “hilarious” when his schoolboy banter with UK partners Sean Connolly and Jeremy Clay suddenly engulfs a management meeting. And they can’t help but wind Maher up about
Milberg Weiss bills itself as the largest contingent-fee plaintiff-side firm involved in securities suits, and it has negotiated well-known settlements for hundreds of millions of dollars with companies including Rite Aid, 3Com, MicroStrategy and Sunbeam. The 35-year-old firm currently represents the lead plaintiff in shareholder suits against Enron and Dynegy. Senior partners on both coasts
One of First Convictions in Country for Exporting National Security Items to Iran SAN JOSE – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Super Micro Computer Inc. pleaded guilty yesterday to a felony charge of unlawfully exporting computer components to Iran in 2001 and 2002. Export of the
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Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2006 – LAWFUEL – US Law & Legal – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed financial fraud charges against Doral Financial Corporation, alleging that the NYSE-listed Puerto Rican bank holding company overstated income by 100 percent on a pre-tax, cumulative basis between 2000 and 2004. The Commission further alleges that
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Caused Tax Loss of $463,100 OAKLAND – LAWFUEL – Tax Law News – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan and Special Agent in Charge of IRS-Criminal Investigation Roger L. Wirth announced that Robert Douglas Hazen, 62, a resident of Danville, Calif., pleaded guilty on September 14, 2006, to aiding and assisting in the preparation of
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Wednesday 20 September 2006 LAWFUEL – Legal News Australia – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned Mr Dennis Murvan Gentry, of Collingwood, Victoria, from providing financial services for five years. ASIC banned Mr Gentry after finding that he had not complied with financial services laws and that there was reason to believe
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SAN PEDRO, Calif., Sept. 19, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – When a federal judge threw out a $50-million jury award against Merck & Co., calling it excessive for a former FBI agent who had suffered a heart attack while using the drug maker’s Vioxx painkiller, the news was met with mixed feelings
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LAWFUEL – Legal News Daily – Trans-Tasman law firm, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, has been announced as the winner of the New Zealand category in the 2006 International Law Office (ILO) Client Choice Awards. The awards, which recognise the achievements of law firms around the world to add real value to their clients’ business, are
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LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced a settlement with an upstate mobile home retailer after consumers complained that it failed to timely and properly complete the installation of new homes and make repairs. American Homes, which is operated by Kenn-Schl, LLC, agreed that it would complete installations and repair
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