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- July a Big Month for IPOs and Their Advisory Firms
- Chin Seeks to Speed Settlement Talks in Google Books Case
- San Jose Prosecutors Indict Alleged PayPal Hackers
- Backed by Trio of Plaintiffs Firms, Credit Union Regulator Expands MBS Assault with New Suit Against Royal Bank of Scotland
- Jailed CEO Ian Norris Appeals His Conviction to SCOTUS
- Judge tosses attorneys in tobacco case for conflicts of interest
- Plaintiffs Lawyers in Muni Bond Bid-Rigging MDL Delay JPMorgan Deal with State Ags
- Federal Judge Rules Cuban Can't Use "Unclean Hands" Defense in SEC Case
- CEO's Destruction of Documents Results in Sanction
- Court Orders Review of Injunction Against Hedge Funds in CSX
- House Lawyers Denounce Decision on Legislative Privilege
- S.F. Will Close Complex Litigation Courts
- Ninth Circuit Reinstates "Don't Ask," But With Conditions
- White-Collar Litigation Team Moves From Winston & Strawn to Pillsbury
- Leading Russian Firm Merges to Create Region's Largest Legal Business
| July a Big Month for IPOs and Their Advisory Firms | Top |
| The markets' hunger for initial public offerings remained in effect this week, with six companies announcing plans to raise a total of nearly $1 billion via public listings that will in turn yield an estimated $11 million in legal fees for Am Law 200 firms. | |
| Chin Seeks to Speed Settlement Talks in Google Books Case | Top |
| A federal judge pressed negotiators Tuesday to complete a reworked settlement to resolve litigation over Google's plan to establish the world's largest digital library without running afoul of the Copyright Act. In March, the judge rejected a settlement that he said would allow Google "to exploit entire books." | |
| San Jose Prosecutors Indict Alleged PayPal Hackers | Top |
| More than a dozen people rounded up in 10 states Tuesday have been charged with conspiracy and intentional damage to a protected computer for allegedly hacking PayPal's servers in retaliation for the company cutting ties with WikiLeaks over its release of classified government cables. | |
| Backed by Trio of Plaintiffs Firms, Credit Union Regulator Expands MBS Assault with New Suit Against Royal Bank of Scotland | Top |
| In its third megasuit over soured mortgage-backed securities in less than a month, the National Credit Union Administration has filed a $629 million complaint against the Royal Bank of Scotland for allegedly hiding the true risks of securities the bank underwrote. | |
| Jailed CEO Ian Norris Appeals His Conviction to SCOTUS | Top |
| The imprisoned ex-CEO of the U.K.-based Morgan Crucible Co., the first foreign national ever extradited upon application by the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his criminal conviction. | |
| Judge tosses attorneys in tobacco case for conflicts of interest | Top |
| A Florida judge has called into question the loyalty of a band of plaintiffs attorneys seeking court review of a multimillion-dollar medical research institute's books and disqualified them from a secondhand-smoke settlement case. | |
| Plaintiffs Lawyers in Muni Bond Bid-Rigging MDL Delay JPMorgan Deal with State Ags | Top |
| Facing plaintiffs lawyers' arguments that a $211 million deal that JPMorgan reached this month in the giant municipal bond bid-rigging litigation was unfair, the federal judge overseeing the case has agreed to delay part of the settlement. | |
| Federal Judge Rules Cuban Can't Use "Unclean Hands" Defense in SEC Case | Top |
| In the latest development in billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban's long-running battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a federal judge on Monday barred Cuban from accusing the SEC of misconduct in the insider trading case against him. | |
| CEO's Destruction of Documents Results in Sanction | Top |
| Finding that a chemical company CEO offered a "flimsy" excuse for destroying boxes of documents in a $15 million environmental cleanup case, a federal judge has ruled that the jury must be instructed to assume that the documents would be damaging to the defense. | |
| Court Orders Review of Injunction Against Hedge Funds in CSX | Top |
| Nearly three years after hearing oral arguments, the 2nd Circuit has ordered a lower court to reconsider whether a pair of hedge funds violated securities laws while trying to win seats on the board of directors for the railroad company CSX Corp. | |
| House Lawyers Denounce Decision on Legislative Privilege | Top |
| Lawyers for the U.S. House of Representatives are supporting a rehearing of a 9th Circuit ruling in the criminal case of former Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., that they say threatens to weaken the Constitution's "speech or debate" clause. | |
| S.F. Will Close Complex Litigation Courts | Top |
| San Francisco will shut down its complex litigation department, along with most other civil courtrooms, as part of a plan to deal with a $13 million budget deficit, Presiding Judge Katherine Feinstein said Monday. | |
| Ninth Circuit Reinstates "Don't Ask," But With Conditions | Top |
| The 9th Circuit on Friday temporarily reinstated part of a stay of an injunction barring the military from enforcing "don't ask, don't tell," but specifically authorized the part that forbids "investigating, penalizing or discharging anyone" pursuant to the policy. | |
| White-Collar Litigation Team Moves From Winston & Strawn to Pillsbury | Top |
| Four white-collar litigation lawyers have left Winston & Strawn for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's Washington, D.C., office, Pillsbury announced Tuesday. William Sullivan Jr. and G. Derek Andreson joined Pillsbury as partners, with Sullivan to serve as co-head of Pillsbury's white-collar practice group.Visit lawjobs.com News & Views | |
| Leading Russian Firm Merges to Create Region's Largest Legal Business | Top |
| Leading Russian firm Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners will acquire 100-lawyer pan-Commonwealth of Independent States practice Magisters in the region's largest-ever law firm merger, the firms announced Tuesday. EPAP Chairman Dimitry Afanasiev said the merger is "unprecedented for our market."Visit International News | |
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