http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Jones Day Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134578 The bankruptcy estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has sued Barclays Capital Inc., claiming the investment division of Barclays Bank PLC improperly reaped a $5 billion windfall in breach of their asset purchase contract when it hurriedly scooped up Lehman assets last fall. http://www.law360.com/articles/134578 http://www.law360.com/articles/134624 A U.S. trustee has asked that a bankruptcy court hold back part of any interim compensation to professionals in the Metaldyne Corp. Chapter 11 proceedings, including Jones Day, Foley & Lardner LLP and Reed Smith LLP, until the cases are resolved. http://www.law360.com/articles/134624 http://www.law360.com/articles/134530 A federal judge has paved the way for a Texas pension fund to arbitrate employment, breach of contract and other claims asserted against KeyCorp’s investment management unit instead of having the case proceed as part of multidistrict litigation that accuses the company of channeling $186 million into Madoff feeder funds. http://www.law360.com/articles/134530 http://www.law360.com/articles/134461 They possess a keen sense of urgency and are willing to go the extra mile, say the Fortune 1000 corporate counsel who make up their client base. These nine law firms are standouts in what a new legal-industry report calls “commitment to help.” http://www.law360.com/articles/134461 http://www.law360.com/articles/134324 Organic food seller SunOpta Inc. has agreed to pay $11.25 million to settle a putative class action over a precipitous drop in stock prices that came after the company allegedly misrepresented its financial well-being. http://www.law360.com/articles/134324 http://www.law360.com/articles/134473 All law firms pride themselves on their legal skills, but a handful of firms — Baker Botts LLP, Foley & Lardner LLP, Jones Day and Kirkland & Ellis LLP — mark the cream of the crop in terms of deft lawyering, according to a new report. http://www.law360.com/articles/134473 http://www.law360.com/articles/134471 Intellectual property lawyer Randy Kay has joined Jones Day's San Diego office from DLA Piper. http://www.law360.com/articles/134471 http://www.law360.com/articles/134477 The firms that provide the best value for the dollar are the ones that offer personalized understanding of immediate issues and go out of their way to help mitigate against future risk, according to a new report. http://www.law360.com/articles/134477 http://www.law360.com/articles/134460 Corporate counsel say they want a law firm that, above all else, knows their business and understands their particular objectives, according a new report. The top-ranked law firms are responding by training their attorneys to step into clients' shoes. http://www.law360.com/articles/134460 http://www.law360.com/articles/134064 The law firms that offer truly superior client service, according to a new survey of corporate counsel, are united by a commitment to understanding their clients' business, open lines of communication and a firm-wide zeal for keeping clients satisfied. http://www.law360.com/articles/134064 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/134063 The Associated Press has beefed up its case against Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the famous Obama “Hope” image who recently admitted to having been “mistaken” on some allegations in his original complaint and to destroying evidence. http://www.law360.com/articles/134063 http://www.law360.com/articles/134020 Funai Electric Co Ltd. has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to bar Vizio Inc. and TPV International Inc. from presenting expert testimony on the validity of a Funai patent in a proceeding Funai brought against them to enforce an earlier exclusion order by the ITC. http://www.law360.com/articles/134020 http://www.law360.com/articles/133997 The Sherwin-Williams Co. asked Mississippi’s highest court on Thursday to review a $7 million jury verdict against it in a county-level action alleging a child suffered brain damage after eating chips of lead-based paint made by the company. http://www.law360.com/articles/133997 http://www.law360.com/articles/133796 An ex-Milberg LLP attorney has asked a federal court to throw out a casino developer's suit accusing him and the firm of extorting $18 million from the company to settle two securities class actions in 2000, arguing that the settlement agreement prevents the company from bringing its claims. http://www.law360.com/articles/133796 http://www.law360.com/articles/133896 Old Carco LLC — Chrysler LLC's castoff — won permission from a bankruptcy judge Thursday to sell a shuttered Newark, Del., assembly plant, currently the site of environmental remediation, for $24 million to the University of Delaware. http://www.law360.com/articles/133896 http://www.law360.com/articles/133637 Pharmaceutical companies CSL Ltd. Co. and Baxter International Inc. are facing class action allegations that they conspired to fix the prices of plasma-derivative protein therapies. http://www.law360.com/articles/133637 http://www.law360.com/articles/132118 Representatives of foreign debtors are increasingly relying on Chapter 15 as a means of protecting a foreign debtor’s U.S. assets pending a determination as to whether such assets (or their proceeds) should be repatriated abroad to be administered in the venue of the debtor’s foreign main proceeding, which serves as a centralized forum to resolve all claims against the debtor or its assets, say Pedro A. Jimenez and Mark G. Douglas of Jones Day. http://www.law360.com/articles/132118 http://www.law360.com/articles/133380 A judge has sentenced the co-founder of bag maker Dooney & Bourke to a year and a day in prison after a jury convicted him of conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and making false statements over a plan to profit from the privatization of Azerbaijan's state oil company. http://www.law360.com/articles/133380 http://www.law360.com/articles/133330 Dealers ditched by Chrysler when it reorganized after bankruptcy have filed an appeal in federal district court, seeking to overturn the bankruptcy court order that ended their legal battles. http://www.law360.com/articles/133330