http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Drinker Biddle Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135430 Pennsylvania's revenue department has challenged Philadelphia Newspapers LLC's proposed reorganization plan, saying it is objectionable because it would unfairly let the bankrupt newspaper company off the hook for unpaid state taxes. http://www.law360.com/articles/135430 http://www.law360.com/articles/135018 Bank lenders that lost their ability to use more than $318 million in credit to bid on bankrupt newspaper company Philadelphia Newspapers LLC have won a stay of the company's auction while a federal appeals court considers their case. http://www.law360.com/articles/135018 http://www.law360.com/articles/134452 The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear a case brought by a group of American Indians claiming that the Washington Redskins name is offensive and disparaging and that the football team's trademark should be canceled. http://www.law360.com/articles/134452 http://www.law360.com/articles/134403 The judge overseeing multidistrict products liability litigation against Johnson & Johnson rejected a request to certify a nationwide class of patients who claim they suffered infections and other complications after undergoing surgical procedures that involved allegedly defective Panacryl sutures. http://www.law360.com/articles/134403 http://www.law360.com/articles/134335 Schiff Hardin LLP has picked up a key securities and capital markets litigator from Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP to round out the firm's securities and futures regulation team. http://www.law360.com/articles/134335 http://www.law360.com/articles/134203 Jones Day reportedly has demoted five of its London partners — about 10 percent of the partners in that office — to of counsel since the beginning of 2009 as American firms continue to scale back their domestic and international operations. http://www.law360.com/articles/134203 http://www.law360.com/articles/133737 Bank lenders that recently lost their ability to use more than $318 million in credit to bid on bankrupt newspaper company Philadelphia Newspapers LLC have asked a district judge to postpone the auction of the company while they take their case to a federal appeals court. http://www.law360.com/articles/133737 http://www.law360.com/articles/133503 The bankrupt Philadelphia Newspapers LLC has prevailed in an appeal seeking to bar its secured lenders from making credit bids on its assets — based on credit they already have extended to the Philadelphia Inquirer publisher — at the auction sale scheduled for next Monday. http://www.law360.com/articles/133503 http://www.law360.com/articles/132971 The legal sector was not immune from October's grim unemployment numbers, shedding 5,800 jobs last month. http://www.law360.com/articles/132971 http://www.law360.com/articles/132418 Dickstein Shapiro LLP confirmed Wednesday that it will lay off 3 percent of associates and counsel and 10 percent of staff members in order to align itself with economic conditions and the “emerging legal services model.” http://www.law360.com/articles/132418 http://www.law360.com/articles/117476 Between Sarbanes-Oxley, the executive compensation disclosure rules, shareholder proxy access and so on, it is hard to imagine where further reform is needed at the moment, and it would be good for everyone to step back and evaluate what changes have actually improved investor protection, says Robert C. Juelke, vice chair of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP's corporate and securities group. http://www.law360.com/articles/117476 http://www.law360.com/articles/131699 A District of Columbia appeals court has kept a case against Motorola Inc., Verizon Wireless Inc., AT&T Corp. and others alive, reversing in part a lower court's decision to dismiss consolidated suits claiming older phones emitted dangerous amounts of radiation. http://www.law360.com/articles/131699 http://www.law360.com/articles/131677 A bankruptcy judge has approved Philadelphia Newspapers LLC's disclosure statement, but the news chain — which owns the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philly.com Web site — still faces a crucial appeal over whether bank creditors can bid for its assets based on credit they've already extended. http://www.law360.com/articles/131677 http://www.law360.com/articles/131577 Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has reportedly laid off about 20 attorneys amid a transition from a year-based to a competency-based system of associate advancement. http://www.law360.com/articles/131577 http://www.law360.com/articles/130761 Business ownership disputes typically involve shareholders in closely held corporations, members of limited liability companies or joint ventures. The following mediation strategies have emerged through the time-tested process of trial and error, says Vincent E. Gentile of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/130761 http://www.law360.com/articles/129942 In addition to the learning curve in familiarizing sellers, buyers and lenders with new terminology and the loss of some familiar mechanisms, the Site Remediation Reform Act requires some new strategic thinking by parties to a transaction, say members of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP's environmental practice group. http://www.law360.com/articles/129942 http://www.law360.com/articles/130038 A U.S. dye importer has alleged in a suit that the U.S. government failed to liquidate anti-dumping duties assessed to a Chinese dye manufacturer, potentially leaving the importer open to an exponentially higher margin rate. http://www.law360.com/articles/130038 http://www.law360.com/articles/129196 Finding that the plaintiff forfeited her rights to have her case heard in federal court, a judge has dismissed a suit by a former American International Group Inc. compliance manager and one-time Skadden Arps Meagher & Flom LLP attorney accusing the company of retaliatory termination for blowing the whistle on a scheme to secure real estate asset management business using unlawful gifts. http://www.law360.com/articles/129196 http://www.law360.com/articles/127333 A federal jury has found that Eaton Corp. violated federal antitrust laws in the heavy-duty truck transmission market in a suit brought by two affiliates of rival ArvinMeritor Inc. alleging that they suffered injuries that could exceed $800 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/127333 http://www.law360.com/articles/126843 A group of lenders to bankrupt credit card processor Cynergy Data LLC has objected to $21 million in cure payments the company is proposing to transfer to Harris Bank NA, claiming the debtor is taking sides between creditors and the bank. http://www.law360.com/articles/126843