http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Clifford Chance Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135065 Bankruptcy attorney Elizabeth Green has left her Orlando, Fla., law firm to become a partner at Baker & Hostetler LLP, saying she chose the firm because of its national platform and strong performance amid tough economic times. http://www.law360.com/articles/135065 http://www.law360.com/articles/134535 The U.S. trustee overseeing Lyondell Chemical Co.'s bankruptcy case has objected to interim fee applications filed by debtor counsel Cadwalader Wickerhsam & Taft LLP and a host of other retained professionals, questioning the millions in fees that have been demanded for a few months of work. http://www.law360.com/articles/134535 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/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/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/133413 Sullivan & Worcester LLP has asked a judge to reconsider a decision that left the firm facing a bias claim from a black lawyer who said she was wrongfully terminated because of her race. http://www.law360.com/articles/133413 http://www.law360.com/articles/133095 Clifford Chance LLP has cut eight fee earners from its capital markets practice in London, scaling back its ranks even further to meet decreased demand for legal services in an office where 80 attorney jobs were eliminated earlier this year. http://www.law360.com/articles/133095 http://www.law360.com/articles/132155 A federal judge has found four Automotive Technologies International Inc. patents related to car side-impact sensors invalid, handing a victory to a group of automotive suppliers and manufacturers — including Nissan Motor Co., Siemens VDO and others — that ATI had sued for infringement. http://www.law360.com/articles/132155 http://www.law360.com/articles/130882 Mayer Brown LLP is adding two leveraged finance partners, Jacqueline Evans from Allen & Overy LLP and John Clark from Clifford Chance LLP, to its burgeoning London office, the firm announced Wednesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/130882 http://www.law360.com/articles/130806 A federal judge has extinguished a series of claims against Clifford Chance US LLP and Sullivan & Worcester LLP in a $75 million race discrimination suit brought by a lawyer who used to work at the firms, but allowed a breach of contract claim against Clifford Chance and an employment discrimination claim against S&W to proceed to trial. http://www.law360.com/articles/130806 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/123089 Insurers are increasingly eying one another with interest as conditions ripen in that sector for more strategic deals, and attorneys who have handled those mergers have some tips for dealing with the many special issues that must be considered with such complex businesses. http://www.law360.com/articles/123089 http://www.law360.com/articles/128731 Following an appeal by Barclays Bank PLC, the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal has quashed and remanded a Competition Commission decision to prevent banks from selling payment protection insurance to customers in concert with sales of credit or loans — an action the commission had ruled prevented stand-alone PPI distributors from effectively competing. http://www.law360.com/articles/128731 http://www.law360.com/articles/128472 Anheuser-Busch InBev has inked a deal to sell its Central European operations to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners for as much as $3.03 billion, the brewer said Thursday. http://www.law360.com/articles/128472 http://www.law360.com/articles/126706 Securities litigator James F. Moyle has joined Alston & Bird LLP, where he will focus on complex litigation in the financial services sector. http://www.law360.com/articles/126706 http://www.law360.com/articles/125651 A federal appeals court has affirmed a district court's dismissal of a putative securities class action alleging that Legg Mason Inc. and Citigroup Inc. defrauded investors by omitting details of a secondary public offering following a multibillion-dollar unit swap in 2005. http://www.law360.com/articles/125651 http://www.law360.com/articles/125553 Several weeks after granting class certification, a federal judge has allowed Loop LLC to intervene as a second class representative in the multidistrict litigation over price-fixing in the marine hose industry. http://www.law360.com/articles/125553 http://www.law360.com/articles/125352 Pfizer Inc. has obtained the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's approval for its $68 billion acquisition of rival drugmaker Wyeth Inc., subject to the divestiture of certain Australian animal health assets. http://www.law360.com/articles/125352 http://www.law360.com/articles/125332 The panel that oversees mergers and acquisitions for Britain has ruled that U.S. food conglomerate Kraft Foods Inc. has only a few weeks left to pursue Cadbury PLC following the rejection of its initial $16 billion bid by the British candymaker's board. http://www.law360.com/articles/125332 http://www.law360.com/articles/124621 London-based Allen & Overy LLP will have to rehire a banking associate from its Frankfurt, Germany, office who sued the firm for wrongfully letting her go as part of a massive sweep of layoffs, a German court has ruled. http://www.law360.com/articles/124621