http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Baker Botts Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135228 Clarification is imminent on a contested $50 million Lloyd's of London insurance policy issued to alleged Ponzi artist R. Allen Stanford and other executives at his Stanford International Bank and related entities, as the insurer has sued for declaratory relief in an effort to avoid funding the accused fraudsters' criminal defense. http://www.law360.com/articles/135228 http://www.law360.com/articles/134923 BP America Inc., ConocoPhillips Co., Shell Exploration & Production Co. and other energy companies have told a federal judge that there is no reason for them to be targeted in a putative class action brought by employment drug screening firms alleging that DrugTest Inc. snuffed out competition for oil and gas industry clients. http://www.law360.com/articles/134923 http://www.law360.com/articles/134805 Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. is appealing its loss in a patent battle with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. over a generic version of the acid reflux drug Prevacid. http://www.law360.com/articles/134805 http://www.law360.com/articles/134663 Scrambling to salvage funds for victims of Robert Allen Stanford’s alleged Ponzi scheme, the receiver for the Stanford estate is looking to finalize the $1.8 million sale of Senesco Technologies Inc. stock once valued at $8 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/134663 http://www.law360.com/articles/134541 The receiver for the estate of accused Ponzi schemer Robert Allen Stanford has lost a bid to keep hundreds of investor accounts frozen in an effort to reclaim payouts investors received before the alleged scheme was revealed. http://www.law360.com/articles/134541 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/134279 After a grueling fight that has spanned many years and multiple courts, a district court judge has handed Asarco LLC back to its parent companies and put an end to the copper giant's stint in Chapter 11, as well as its asbestos liabilities. http://www.law360.com/articles/134279 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/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/133629 The receiver marshaling the estate of Robert Allen Stanford has filed suit against one of the accused Ponzi schemer’s so-called outside wives, seeking to recover millions of dollars the mistress allegedly received from Stanford and squirreled away overseas. http://www.law360.com/articles/133629 http://www.law360.com/articles/133520 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. plans to begin marketing a generic version of the acid reflux drug Prevacid now that a federal judge has ruled in its favor in a patent battle with Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. http://www.law360.com/articles/133520 http://www.law360.com/articles/133314 Veteran intellectual property litigator Peter Taylor has left Clifford Chance LLP to head a new IP practice at Baker Botts LLP's London office, where he will focus on expanding the firm's European patent and trademark litigation activities. http://www.law360.com/articles/133314 http://www.law360.com/articles/133439 Asarco LLC has earned approval to sell off a vacant property that once housed a zinc processing facility to the city of Trenton, N.J., for $1, allowing the bankrupt mining giant to untangle itself from current and future liabilities involving the remediation of the now-contaminated site. http://www.law360.com/articles/133439 http://www.law360.com/articles/133211 The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take on Every Penny Counts Inc.'s appeal of a claims construction ruling that the company claimed misapplied the high court's 1996 ruling in Markman v. Westview Instruments. http://www.law360.com/articles/133211 http://www.law360.com/articles/131720 Oil exploration and production company Denbury Resources Inc. has announced a $4.5 billion deal to buy Encore Acquisition Co. in a definitive merger agreement to be underwritten by JPMorgan Chase & Co. http://www.law360.com/articles/131720 http://www.law360.com/articles/131068 The receiver marshaling the estate of accused Ponzi kingpin Robert Allen Stanford is set to square off Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit over the extent of his clawback powers, launching a debate that could recast a legal machinery that unevenly distributes losses among investors. http://www.law360.com/articles/131068 http://www.law360.com/articles/131571 WildEarth Guardians has asked a federal judge to enjoin Xcel Energy Inc. from opening a new coal-fired electric generation unit at its Colorado Comanche plant because the unit allegedly exceeds pollutant emission limitations imposed by the Clean Air Act. http://www.law360.com/articles/131571 http://www.law360.com/articles/131535 Accused by federal regulators of falsifying Delphi Corp.’s financial records, the bankrupt auto parts supplier's former CEO J.T. Battenberg III has failed to prevent a jury from deciding his fate at trial. http://www.law360.com/articles/131535 http://www.law360.com/articles/120818 Delay is a big problem — sometimes appellate judges do not understand that by failing to rule, they are effectively deciding the matter, says George T. Patton Jr., co-chair of the appellate group at Bose McKinney & Evans LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/120818