Monday, Mar 15, 2010
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP has beefed up its litigation team in the United States by adding three parters, including a former federal prosecutor, to its dispute resolution practice, bolstering the firm's ability to assist clients with cross-border matters that involve a U.S. component.Friday, Mar 12, 2010
A U.S. Trustee’s Office representative has told a Virgin Islands court that he forwarded bribery allegations concerning Vinson & Elkins LLP and Genovese Joblove & Battisa PA attorneys — lodged by a bankrupt Caribbean telecommunications executive — to the U.S. attorney's office for that district.Thursday, Mar 11, 2010
Devon Energy Corp. has agreed to sell its assets in Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico and Azerbaijan to BP PLC for $7 billion and to buy into a joint venture to develop oil sands in Canada with the British oil giant for $500 million, the companies announced Thursday.Monday, Mar 08, 2010
Celgene Corp. and Novartis AG have reached an agreement to settle separate patent infringement suits against KV Pharmaceutical Co. and IntelliPharmaCeutics Corp. over drugs that treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the latter of which brought antitrust counterclaims against the pharmaceutical companies.Friday, Mar 05, 2010
Houston-based oil and natural gas developer Oasis Petroleum Inc. has filed for an initial public offering worth up to $350 million and plans to use proceeds from the stock sale to fund an expansion of drilling on its properties in the Western U.S.Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010
A career in technology law that began with a visit to an arcade 30 years ago is now taking White & Case LLP partner William Sloan Coats to Kaye Scholer LLP, where he will lead the firm's new Silicon Valley office.Friday, Feb 26, 2010
Kellogg Brown & Root International Inc. has appealed a federal judge's $19 million award to subcontractor Paul Morrell Inc. in a breach of contract suit accusing the former Halliburton Co. unit of inducing the subcontractor to accept reduced payments for military food services in Iraq.Thursday, Feb 25, 2010
A federal judge has denied Sharp Corp.'s motion for summary judgment in a dispute with Advanced Technology Incubator Inc. over two patents related to color filters on LCD screens, paving the way for the case to go to trial.Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has nabbed from Vinson & Elkins LLP a Houston transactional lawyer who focuses on the energy industry.Thursday, Feb 11, 2010
Apple Inc., Google Inc. and 10 other defendants targeted in Eolas Technologies Inc.’s patent infringement suit over interactive Web site technology are pushing for the case to be moved from Texas to California.Thursday, Feb 11, 2010
Creditors of bankrupt Southern supermarket chain Bi-Lo LLC have objected to its request to retain Valuation Research Corp. as an “ordinary course of business” professional.Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has revealed how much it is paying its associates in merit-based bonuses for 2009, offering a rare glimpse into the mechanics of alternative compensation schemes as more firms shift away from lockstep pay.Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010
Jones Day has bolstered its nationwide securities litigation and SEC enforcement practice with the addition of the group's first member in the firm's Houston office.Monday, Feb 08, 2010
Following numerous internal complaints, Vinson & Elkins LLP has reportedly increased the size of its merit-based bonuses, particularly to associates outside of New York.Monday, Feb 08, 2010
Land O' Lakes Inc., United Egg Producers Inc. and a host of other defendants have asked the court to drop much of the direct purchasers' complaint in litigation accusing a slew of egg trade groups and agricultural companies of a long-running conspiracy to limit production and drive up prices.Thursday, Feb 04, 2010
Freedom Medical Inc. has dropped Novation LLC from a suit that accuses the company and several other large players in the medical equipment rental industry of conspiring to monopolize the $450 million market.Tuesday, Feb 02, 2010
A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's claims that Cohmad Securities Corp, co-founder Maurice “Sonny” Cohn and other executives aided and abetted Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme in violation of federal securities laws.Monday, Feb 01, 2010
A judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands has granted a defunct telecommunication firm executive's request to conduct a disciplinary hearing to determine possible sanctions for several law firms and trustees accused of orchestrating a scheme to provide free legal services to a material witness in three of his company's pending bankruptcy cases.Monday, Feb 01, 2010
A federal judge has awarded Kellogg Brown & Root International Inc. subcontractor Paul Morrell Inc. nearly $19 million in its breach of contract suit accusing the former Halliburton Co. subsidiary of inducing it to accept reduced payments for food services in Iraq.Friday, Jan 29, 2010
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