http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Sonnenschein Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/131130 With health care and climate change legislation, a global recession, and the war in Afghanistan, a financial regulatory overhaul has been slower than some expected, but Congress is moving forward on a sweeping financial reform package, and observers say some segments could soon be signed by President Barack Obama. http://www.law360.com/articles/131130 http://www.law360.com/articles/132658 A bankruptcy judge agreed Thursday to let creditors choose between the reorganization plan crafted by debtors Young Broadcasting Inc., favored by senior lenders, and a competing plan by the unsecured creditors committee. http://www.law360.com/articles/132658 http://www.law360.com/articles/131735 Brown Rudnick LLP is beefing up its corporate practice with the addition of a former Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP partner in its New York office. http://www.law360.com/articles/131735 http://www.law360.com/articles/131323 A wary bankruptcy judge on Thursday preliminarily approved a disclosure statement in fraud-ridden hedge fund Bayou Group LLC's Chapter 11 case, going over the 85-page document with a fine-tooth comb and putting off challenges to a contemplated dual trusteeship and to attorneys' fees requests until a confirmation hearing. http://www.law360.com/articles/131323 http://www.law360.com/articles/131229 The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. has objected to Young Broadcasting Inc.'s Chapter 11 disclosure statement, claiming it doesn't tell creditors that Young may end up liable to the federal pension insurer for over $6.5 million if it terminates its employee pension plan. http://www.law360.com/articles/131229 http://www.law360.com/articles/130895 Dish Network Corp. has asked a judge to force its insurers to respond to nearly 20 discovery requests aimed at parsing policy language to ascertain whether they have a duty to defend it in an underlying patent dispute over the satellite provider's in-house telephone system. http://www.law360.com/articles/130895 http://www.law360.com/articles/130369 Arguing that its coverage does not extend to patent claims, Travelers Indemnity Co. of Illinois has joined a group of insurers seeking to deflect a Dish Network Corp. suit over their duty to defend the satellite provider against patent infringement claims brought by billionaire inventor Ronald A. Katz over a Dish telephone system. http://www.law360.com/articles/130369 http://www.law360.com/articles/129402 Baker & Hostetler LLP has continued the expansion of its New York office, announcing the addition Tuesday of four securities litigators: partners Mark A. Kornfeld, Deborah H. Renner and Gonzalo S. Zeballos, and counsel Timothy Pfeifer. http://www.law360.com/articles/129402 http://www.law360.com/articles/129343 Claiming that its policy does not cover patent claims, National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. is seeking summary judgment in a spat with Dish Network Corp. over coverage for billionaire inventor Ronald A. Katz's suit accusing Dish of infringing patents for telephone systems. http://www.law360.com/articles/129343 http://www.law360.com/articles/129101 The U.S. Department of Energy's long-awaited Financial Institution Partnership Program is an attempt to restart the lending markets for conventional renewable energy technologies by providing partial loan guarantees for commercially accepted renewable energy systems, say Erik Klingenberg, Thomas Jensen, Jeffrey Fort, Vickie Strohmeyer, Mike Cunningham and Kelly Lugar of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/129101 http://www.law360.com/articles/128775 The prospect of Security Insurance Co. of Hartford and Lubrizol Corp. settling their feud over coverage for cleanup costs at a Texas Superfund site without court intervention has grown dim, with the insurer seeking to bring the resolution of the suit before a magistrate judge and the chemical company asking the court to issue a judgment in its favor. http://www.law360.com/articles/128775 http://www.law360.com/articles/128821 Starent Networks Corp. will pay $3.5 million to settle patent litigation claims leveled against the mobile Internet network infrastructure company by UTStarcom Inc., the two companies announced. http://www.law360.com/articles/128821 http://www.law360.com/articles/128519 Foley & Lardner LLP is reportedly laying off 39 of its 988 attorneys, after having added eight offices and hundreds of lawyers over the last five years. http://www.law360.com/articles/128519 http://www.law360.com/articles/128332 K&L Gates LLP has scooped up bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors’ rights expert Michael B. Lubic, who joins the firm as a partner in its bankruptcy and insolvency practice. http://www.law360.com/articles/128332 http://www.law360.com/articles/128251 KV Pharmaceutical Co. has accused Spanish drug outfit J. Uriach & CIA SA of holding on to KV trade secrets after an agreement to collaborate on an anti-fungal cream was terminated, then using the confidential information to launch its own version of the product. http://www.law360.com/articles/128251 http://www.law360.com/articles/128149 Samsung Electronics Corp. Ltd. has agreed to a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit filed by CCP Systems AG alleging Samsung improperly distributed CCP software online for free. http://www.law360.com/articles/128149 http://www.law360.com/articles/123918 If plaintiffs in the Refco securities litigation succeed in appealing the dismissal of Mayer Brown LLP and one of its lawyers from the case, securities lawyers arguing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit may find themselves liable for statements they wrote anonymously. http://www.law360.com/articles/123918 http://www.law360.com/articles/128058 AT&T Missouri has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Justice $1.4 million in civil penalties as part of a settlement over allegations that the company engaged in noncompetitive bidding for Internet contracts at Kansas City, Mo., schools. http://www.law360.com/articles/128058 http://www.law360.com/articles/127782 Young Broadcasting Inc.'s unsecured creditors have filed a plan of reorganization challenging the company's plan to sell its assets to its senior lenders for $220 million, proposing instead to reinstate the lenders' debt and sell substantially all of the equity in the reorganized company to its noteholders through a rights offering that would raise $38 million in new capital. http://www.law360.com/articles/127782 http://www.law360.com/articles/127461 Security Insurance Co. of Hartford has asked the judge overseeing its case against Lubrizol Corp. over pollution at a Texas Superfund site for a continuance to file a motion to enforce a settlement agreement with Lubrizol, but Lubrizol said Friday there was no settlement deal and asked the court to schedule a trial. http://www.law360.com/articles/127461