http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Winston & Strawn Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135652 Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced Friday that it is pushing back the start date for half its incoming associate class from January to October 2010 and cutting pay for all first-year associates "in light of anticipated client demand and market conditions." http://www.law360.com/articles/135652 http://www.law360.com/articles/134946 A federal judge has refused to grant a jury trial in a consolidated class action accusing construction giant Caterpillar Inc. of denying its former employees retirement benefits. http://www.law360.com/articles/134946 http://www.law360.com/articles/134758 Winston & Strawn LLP has opened offices in Beijing and Shanghai, expanding its international trade and cross-border corporate practices. http://www.law360.com/articles/134758 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/133989 Cephalon Inc. and Barr Pharmaceuticals LLC have called a truce in their legal battles over the cancer painkiller Fentora. http://www.law360.com/articles/133989 http://www.law360.com/articles/134085 Former Refco Inc. auditor Grant Thornton LLP and outside counsel Mayer Brown LLP have moved for a second time to dismiss a fraud lawsuit brought by the trustee overseeing Refco Inc.’s bankruptcy proceedings in response to allegations that they knew about the financial firm’s massive fraud scheme. http://www.law360.com/articles/134085 http://www.law360.com/articles/134096 A federal judge has dismissed a counterclaim levied by two railroad companies against Frontier Communications Corp., which had sought to be reimbursed by the railroads for pollution at a gas plant in Maine that was owned by a Frontier predecessor. http://www.law360.com/articles/134096 http://www.law360.com/articles/133626 Ruling that federal law bars counterclaims in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions, a judge has said a Wealth Management LLC executive accused of taking $2.5 million in kickbacks can't strike back against the agency. http://www.law360.com/articles/133626 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/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/132397 Shearman & Sterling LLP has told its 2009 summer associates that it will delay their start dates until the fall of 2011 and provide them with a $65,000 stipend for the deferral year. http://www.law360.com/articles/132397 http://www.law360.com/articles/132322 A Chinese exporter of refrigerator and oven racks has filed concurrent complaints over countervailing and anti-dumping duties recently imposed on its products, saying the U.S. Department of Commerce's calculation method could force it to pay unfair “double duties.” http://www.law360.com/articles/132322 http://www.law360.com/articles/132105 Winston & Strawn LLP has reportedly pushed back the start date for incoming associates again, citing budget concerns in its decision to have new associates start in three groups throughout 2010. http://www.law360.com/articles/132105 http://www.law360.com/articles/131628 Eli Lilly & Co. is appealing a federal court ruling that invalidated one of the patents in an infringement dispute with generic-drug maker Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. over the cancer treatment Gemzar. http://www.law360.com/articles/131628 http://www.law360.com/articles/131830 Eight private equity lawyers from Nixon Peabody LLP have joined Winston & Strawn LLP in its New York office. http://www.law360.com/articles/131830 http://www.law360.com/articles/131892 In light of IRS Revenue Ruling 2008-13, many companies will need to amend their employment agreements, equity plans and awards, and other incentive plans and agreements by Dec. 31, 2009, to preserve the deductibility of performance-based awards and amounts under Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m), says Michael S. Melbinger of Winston & Strawn LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/131892 http://www.law360.com/articles/131379 Former Winston & Strawn LLP attorney Robert L. Nelson has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's San Francisco office as a partner in the firm's energy and global transactions practice. http://www.law360.com/articles/131379 http://www.law360.com/articles/130896 A unit of specialty pharmaceutical firm Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. has struck a deal with Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. that resolves patent litigation over Watson’s Oxytrol and grants Barr a license to eventually market a generic version of the overactive bladder treatment. http://www.law360.com/articles/130896 http://www.law360.com/articles/130759 Technical support workers for Wells Fargo & Co. have secured conditional certification in a wage-and-hour action alleging that the bank violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by misclassifying the employees as exempt from overtime pay. http://www.law360.com/articles/130759