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New York - June, 2009

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• Forest Derivative Appeal Halted As Sides Seek Deal
• Century, R&Q Not Entitled To New Arbitration: Judge
• Ion Defends DIP Proposal Against Creditors' Objection
• Eddie Bauer $202M Asset Sale To CCMP Approved
• Madoff's Merkin To Part With $310M Art Trove
• GM Execs Push Rapid Sale, Wind Down At Hearing
• CORRECTED: Littler Mendelson Snags Fox Rothschild Partner
• Abbott Hit With $1.7B Verdict In IP Suit Over Humira
• Ruden McClosky Joins List Of Firms To Chop Pay
• Firms Wary About Offshoring Legal Services: Report
• MSX, Chrysler Strike $9.7M Deal Over Outsourcing
• New Lead Plaintiff Appointed In Imax Securities Case
• Enabling State Suits Against National Banks
• Dismissal Of AstraZeneca Securities Action Upheld
• Ford Van Owners Seek Class Cert. In $385M Suit
• HITECH And Federal Breach Notification Rules
• Kelsey Grammer Fights Trade Secret Theft Claims
• WaMu Settles OT Class Actions For $38M
• High Court Won't Hear Cablevision Copyright Spat
• Deloitte Objects To BearingPoint Agreement
• High Court Says States Can Go After Federal Banks
• Demand Futility In A Down Economy
• Children's Place Offers $12M To End Securities Case
• New York — The Creditor's Playground
• GM Agrees To Carry Car Liability Claims Post-Sale
• Ex-Latham Partner Sentenced To Prison Over Fraud
• Gibson Dunn Adds 4th Clifford Chance Partner
• Trustee Gets Brooke Ch. 11 Converted To Ch. 7
• AIG Sheds Russian Bank Unit In Deal With Peugeot
• High Court Won't Hear Chevron's Ecuador Appeal
• High Court Declines 9/11 Case Against Saudi Arabia
• Creditors' Standing To File Involuntary Petitions
• Lilly Scores 3 More Zyprexa Dismissals In MDL
• 42 States Join Forces Against GM Restructuring Plan
• IBM Loses Bid To Keep Former Exec From Dell Job
• Creditors Sue Extended Stay Investor Over Ch. 11
• Court Rules In Long-Running Trace Intl. Appeal
• FHFA Named Plaintiff In Fannie Mae Shareholder Suits
• Madoff Gets The Maximum
• Treasury Sets Rules For Bank Warrant Buybacks
• Buchanan Ingersoll, Gray Plant To Cut Associate Pay
• New Plan Moves Tricom Closer To Reorganization
• Main St. CEO Tapped For Moody's Special Master
• Treasury, EPA Lodge Protest Over Quebecor Plan
• UBS Checks Jefferies Move To Poach Employees
• Morgan Stanley Board Wins Round In ARS Suit
• Chrysler Judge Lets $2.2M Airbag Case Move Ahead
• BofA Hit With Sex Bias Suit Over Bonuses
• AIG Gives US $25B Stake In Two Spun-Off Entities
• GM Gets OK To Tap $33.3B In DIP Financing
• Contractor Sues Great American For OT Suit Coverage
• BofA Wins $19M In Fees In AEP Natural Gas Case
• Lehman Allowed To Investigate Barclays Sale
• Kaye Scholer Opts For Salary Cuts With A Twist
• BuckleySandler Taps GE GC To Head New NY Office
• Sequenom Faces Slew Of Shareholder Suits
• Sonnenschein Lures Back Scholastic's Head Atty
• Comverse Exits Visual Voice Mail Patent Row
• Delphi's Proposed Sale Plan Sparks Lenders' Ire
• Eastwind Maritime Drifts Into Ch. 7
• Greenwich Told To Pay Defense Costs In Injury Suit
• Madoff Judge Delays Victim Restitution Issue
• Google, Yahoo Can't Appeal Web Index Patent Ruling
• Insurance Deal Adds $6M To Quigley Asbestos Trust
• Anti-Bias Law To Cover Transgender Federal Workers
• States Urge Quick Action On GHG Regulations
• Venable Nabs Restructuring Pro From Macquarie
• Securities Vet Rejoins Sutherland From Mayer Brown
• Settlement In Pitney Bowes OT Action Gets Initial OK
• Pfizer Celebrex Suit Stayed Pending High Court Case
• Rebate Discovery To Proceed In TriCor Antitrust Suit
• 2nd Circ. Says CVS Can't Sell Perfume Without UPC
• JPMorgan Again Told To Hand Over E-Mail In OT Suit
• Dissident GM Bondholders' Committee Bid Nixed
• Morgan Lewis Scores Baker Botts Oil, Gas Head
• Asbestos Scam Operator Escapes Conspiracy Charge
• Lyondell Asks Court To OK $5.2M Lubrizol Settlement
• GM Creditors Fight Bid To Create Tort Committee
• Metaldyne DIP Deal OK'd; Asset Sale Faces Objections
• MGIC Hit With $500M Securities Class Action
• Counsel's Partner Feud Disrupts Milberg Fraud Suit
• 2nd Circ. Backs Clinic Workers In NLRB Picketing Spat
• SEC Won't Cover Investor's $1.7M In Madoff Losses
• Comcast Set-Top Box Actions Consolidated In Pa.
• Frontier Proposes $110M Sale To Republic Airways
• Insurers Clash Over Policyholder's Defense Costs
• Landlord Fights Dreier Liquidator's Bid For Payday
• NY Court Says Foie Gras Critics Lack Standing
• Fox Asks To Combine Indemnification Disputes
• High Court Won't Hear 'Reverse Payment' Challenge
• Snell & Wilmer Takes Slice Off Top Of Associate Pay
• U Of Iowa Says Abbott's Humira Infringes Patents
• Bankrupt Telecom Co. Sues Paul Weiss For $140M
• Verizon Settles EPA Regulatory Reporting Claims
• Plaintiff Seeks To Move Chrysler Appeal Forward
• NRG Suit Over Exelon's $6.2B Buyout Offer Tossed
• Obama Taps Judges From Ga., NJ For Circuit Courts
• NYC's 2nd Attempt At Greener Cabs Chopped Down
• Union-Run Pension Fund Balks At Quebecor Plan
• SEC Nabs Madoff Feeder Fund, Adviser
• 2nd Circ. Rebuffs Ex-Bayou CEO Israel's Appeal
• Star Tribune Plan Promises Creditors Limited Payment
• Veteran White Collar Atty Returns To Fox Rothschild
• States Join Qui Tam Medicaid Suits Against Wyeth
• Bic Unit Snaps Up Norwood For $162.5M
• F21 Fights To Get Anthropologie Copyright Suit Nixed
• $3M Sirva Deal Finalized In Fuel Surcharge MDL
• TV Networks Win Bid To Unseal Madoff Victims' E-Mails
• Cozen Nabs Mound, WolfBlock Attorneys For NY Office
• FCC Told To Clarify Denial Of Verizon Immunity Bid
• US Could Become A Hedge Fund Haven, Experts Say
• NY Seeks Unredacted Settlement Docs In DRAM MDL
• Chemtura Asks To Put Diacetyl Suits On Hold
• Q&A With Morgan Lewis' Kell Damsgaard
• Q&A With Morgan Lewis' Howard S. Beltzer
• Court OKs Global Lehman Protocol
• Gen Re, Marsh, ACE Escape AIG Derivative Case
• Comverse Puts SEC Backdating Suit To Rest
• 'Catcher' Spinoff Put On Hold In Copyright Case
• Gibson Dunn Prevails In Flag Telecom Doc Spat
• Health Net Deal Ends NY AG Reimbursement Probe
• Q&A With Morgan Lewis' Ben Indek
• Honeywell Wins Appeal Over Fees In ERISA case
• Manville Bars Travelers Asbestos Suits: High Court
• GM Debtors Say One Creditors Committee Is Enough
• Rio Tinto Outsourcing Signals New Threat To BigLaw
• SEC Sidelines Ex-NFL Player Amid Fraud Case
• Con Ed Loses Bid To Challenge NYC Cleanup Deal
• Top 10 Workplace Mistakes To Avoid This Year
• Delphi Seeks Lenders' OK Of GM's $250M DIP Loan
• Dealing With Competing Claims Following A Union Rift
• House Seeks Bernanke's View On BofA-Merrill Deal
• Lyondell Creditors Seek Suit Over Basell Merger
• Adelphia Creditors Told To Revise Claims V. Goldman
• NY Court Orders Authorization Of Judicial Pay Raises
• Exxon Reaches Rare Settlements In MTBE Litigation
• A Look At Climate Change-Related Disclosures
• LandSource Lenders Join Bid For Ch. 7 Conversion
• E&Y Won't Back Down In Lehman Subpoena Fight
• Eddie Bauer Pursues $202M Asset Sale To CCMP
• Chrysler Fights To Get D&O Liability Release OK'd
• Ex-Franklin First Loan Officer Wins Cert. In FLSA Suit
• Calif. Sends Examiner To Oversee AIG Restructuring
• Bid For Equity Committee Nixed In Charter Ch. 11
• Insurer Loses Bid To Recover $10M From Bally
• GGP, Creditors Defend Ch. 11 Cases Against MetLife
• Chrysler Creditors Move To Delay Liability Releases
• Ex-Foot Locker Workers Seek Cert. In FLSA Spat
• Asbestos Claims, Indemnity Payments Down: Report
• MassMutual Madoff Suit Re-Emerges In Federal Court
• AP's 'Hot News' Suit Against All Headline News Cools
• US Government Squeezed Out Of Bow Tie Patent Suit
• A Practical Case For Federalizing Trade Secret Law
• 'Catcher' Spinoff Author Fights Salinger Copyright Suit
• A New Approach For The SEC
• UPS Seeks Approval Of $2.8M Deal In OT Suit
• Extended Stay Hotels Checks Into Ch. 11
• Talk Of Bonuses, Bailout Barred In AIG Trial
• Mayer Brown Grabs IP Trio From McDermott Will
• US Trustee Balks At Charter Ch. 11 Plan
• Unique Features Set NY Life Insurance Proposal Apart
• Bristol-Myers Nears Deal In Plavix Securities Suit
• Iqbal And The Twombly Pleading Standard
• Property Tax Collectors Object To GM Financing
• MBS Litigation — Huge Exposure For Banks?
• GSK, P&G Head For Fla. In Denture Cream MDL
• Calif., IBM Granted Most US Patents In 2008
• Optionable Shareholders Lose Bid To Revive Action
• Investors Win Class Cert. In NYSE Specialists Case
• Dozens Object To Lehman's Claim Cutoff Motion
• High Court Will Consider Class Arbitration Dispute
• Trustee Says Dechert Has Conflict As Crunch Counsel
• Aloft, Yahoo, Google Set To Mediate IM Patent Spat
• Bally Cuts Exit Deal To Reduce Debt By Over $660M
• Madoff Victim Challenges Trustee's Claim Valuation
• Valvoline Maker Slaps Morgan Stanley With ARS Suit
• Ernst & Young Balks At Order To Divulge Vivendi Docs
• Falling Demand Sends MagnaChip Parent Into Ch. 11
• Cravath Offers Deferral Deals To Incoming Lawyers
• Antitrust Case Against EBay, Coin Firms Transferred
• Emerging Trends In Catastrophe Derivatives
• AIG Unit Loses Bid To Stay PCB Cleanup Suit
• Bankruptcy Judge Tells Delphi To Open Up Bidding
• GGP Malls Ignoring Cash Collateral Order: Lenders
• Bill Would Ban Phosphorus From Dish Detergent
• Calif. AG, CVS Settle Inquiry Into Expired Products
• Siemens Settles Acacia Unit's Display Patent Suit
• Judge Gives Nod To $586M Deal In IPO Action
• GM Bondholders To Fight Restructuring Plan
• Chemtura Negotiates Deal To Reduce Antitrust Fines
• Riverstone, Cuomo Settle Pay-To-Play Probe For $30M
• Mayer Brown Partner Jumps To Greenberg Traurig
• Investors Sue Madoff Feeder Funds For $3.5B
• Pay Cuts Ahead At Bryan Cave, Frost Brown
• Charter Objects To Certification Of Overtime Class
• 2nd Circ. Nixes Ban On Designer Using Own Name
• Doe Run Loses Bid To Realign Insurance Spat
• Sen. Calls For More Text Message Service Competition
• Fiat Closes Chrysler Deal After 42-Day Bankruptcy
• Canadian Settles US Insider Trading Claims
• Delphi Gets Initial OK For $250M In GM Financing
• Lehman Examiner Calls Out E&Y Over Audit Subpoena
• Pillsbury Introduces Productivity-Based Salary Cuts
• Merrill To Buy Back $38M In ARS From Mont. Investors
• New Reporting Requirements Under MMSEA
• DOJ Expands Probe Of Google Book Deal
• Investment Adviser Settles $6M SEC Fraud Suit
• Sen. Seeks Reform On Credit Card Interchange Fees
• Charter Shareholder Demands Equity Committee
• Las Vegas Developer Enters Ch. 11, Attacks Lenders
• Former Lehman Clients Ask For $190M In ARS Suit
• High Court Mulls Hearing Key Arbitration Case
• Sen. Wants To Require Offshore-Hoarding Disclosures
• Court Won't Expedite Hearing For GM Bondholders
• Location: A Taxing Choice For New Businesses
• Lyondell Debtor Settles With Insurers Closing Shop
• Bass Berry Cuts 32; O'Melveny Freezes Staff Pay
• Purdue Settles OxyContin Patent Cases Against KV
• DirecTV Loses Bid To Dismiss Charter Attack Ads Suit
• Travelers Loses Bid For $33M From Bankrupt Builder
• Panel Says Future Bank Stress Tests May Be Needed
• Sen. Seeks Pay For Rejected GM, Chrysler Dealers
• Banks Object To Tricom's Plan, Disclosure Statement
• Plaintiffs Want Pfizer Celebrex Docs Unsealed
• Design Firms Still On Hook In 9/11 Litigation
• GGP, Creditors Defend Malls' Place In Bankruptcy
• SEC Requests Data From Pension Funds In Probe
• Treasury Allows 10 Banks To Pay Back TARP Funds
• Cuomo Probe Into Loan Modification Industry Deepens
• New York Life Seeks Dismissal From Madoff Suit
• 2nd Circ. Reverses Dismissal Of BofA Fraud Claims
• Boiler Co. Must Pay For Asbestos Defense: Travelers
• High Court Clears Way For $2B Chrysler Sale
• Insurer Seeks Mediation In Lubrizol Cleanup Costs Suit
• Sutherland Adds Clifford Partner To Insurance Practice
• Kaye Scholer Gets Access To CNA Docs In Fees Suit
• Buffalo Fire Dept. Wins Reversal In Race Bias Suit
• Reckitt Hits Watson Again Over Mucinex ANDAs
• Shell Settles Nigerian Human Rights Suits For $15.5M
• Ex-Tyco CEO Perseveres In Conviction Fight
• High Court Affirms Deadline For Qui Tam FCA Appeals
• Chrysler Sale Hits Roadblock In Supreme Court
• Lehman Secures $200M Mortgage Deal
• Daimler, Chrysler Pension Truce Wins Approval
• Asbestos Claimants Fight To Be Heard In GM Case
• Dechert Snags Bush-Era Deputy Assistant AG
• Value City Creditors Want Look At Ex-Owner's Books
• GGP Lenders Seek Examination Of 42 Malls
• Bid To Toss Morgan Lewis Off Antitrust Case Fails
• Eli Lilly Moves To Toss Zyprexa Battle With Conn.
• Trustee Objects To Releases For Chrysler Officers
• 1 Securities Act Claim Survives In NovaGold Mine Suit
• 3 More Execs To Be Added To $362M SemGroup Suit
• New York Radiology Antitrust Suit On Path To Trial
• Calif. Regulator, BofA Units Settle ARS Claims
• Fiduciary Duties And Insolvency: Limiting Liability
• Whole Foods Developer, Insurer Settle Enviro Beef
• Emery Wins Fee Dispute With Fellow Lockerbie Atty
• GM Announces Plans To Sell Saturn To Penske
• Kilpatrick Joins Ranks Of Firms To Cut Associate Pay
• AIG Wins Bid To Take Starr Spat Before Jury
• Chrysler Says Parts Supplier Holding Tools Hostage
• Alleged Credit Suisse Fraudster Goes On The Lam
• 2nd Circ. OKs Chrysler Sale With Window For Appeal
• BofA Chief Called On The Carpet Over Merrill Buyout
• ACLU Suit Spurs Debate Over Gene Patents
• Trustee Balks At Tronox Employee Incentive Plan
• Obama Taps Robins Kaplan Atty For Top Minn. Spot
• Pricaspian Denied Again Over Shell Oil Profits
• Reviving Securitization — A Response To Critics
• Skadden Adds Litigator From Merrill Lynch
• Canadian Bank Can Access DataTreasury Suits Info
• Seward Gets Out Of Suit Over Hedge Fund's Collapse
• Judge OKs Synergetics Tying Claims Against Alcon
• First Impressions Of Sotomayor's Enviro Record
• TIG Asbestos Reinsurance Suit Will Stay In NY
• IT Workers Win Conditional Cert. In RFA Overtime Suit
• Bill Aims To Help Merchants Slash Credit Card Fees
• Trade Show Co. Sues Insurer Over IP Suit Defense
• Firefighter Case Absent From Sotomayor's Top 10
• Teva Access To Pfizer Docs On Detrol Restricted
• Number Of New Clean Energy Patents Drops Slightly
• American Bid To Keep Ex-Worker From Delta Fails
• DOJ Probes Recruiting Practices At Google, Yahoo
• Abercrombie FLSA Suit Deal Gets Judge's Blessing
• Citibank, BofA, Thornton Parmalat Docs Unsealed
• Massey Insurance Row Sent To Arbitration In NY
• 2nd Circ. Sends Investor-Citigroup Spat To Ga. Court
• The New Geography Of Patent Litigation
• Nigerians' Human Rights Case Against Shell Revived
• Lehman Unit Sues Insurer Over $166M In CDS
• SEC Finalizes $7B ARS Buyback Deals With 3 Firms
• Obama Pushes For Quick Action On Health Care
• Katten Lures Bankruptcy Partner From Morgan Lewis
• NY Court Upholds Decision To Increase Judges' Pay
• Lilly Wins 2 Summary Judgment Bids In Zyprexa MDL
• Ex-UBS Exec Insider Trading Saga Comes To An End
• Deaths From Soot Twice As High As Previously Thought
• CORRECTED: Plaintiffs Want Stay Lifted For Chrysler's $55M Appeal
• AIG Accuses Starr Of Trying To Stoke Bonus Fire
• $128M Lehman Pension Deal Gets Green Light
• $195M Strawberry Shortcake Fight Back In Court
• Penthouse Malpractice Claims V. Pachulski Revived
• Monolines' Claims Could Turn Up Heat On I-Banks
• ARS Buyers Bow Out Of Royal Bank Of Canada Suit
• $2B Chrysler Sale Spat Heads Straight To 2nd Circ.
• Gensler Calls CFTC Budget Hike For 2010 Insufficient
• Deutsche Loses Out On $47M From Genuity Ch. 11
• SEC Hires Milbank Tweed Litigator To Lead NY Office
• Teamsters Threaten Strike If Star Trib Nixes Pension
• Final Judgment Set At $71M In Cornell, HP Patent Suit
• Barroway Named JPMorgan ERISA Suits Lead Counsel
• Chemtura Sues Supplier Over Frozen Shipment
• Stay Of Arbitration Upheld In VCG-Citigroup CDS Suit
• Ore. Legislature OKs Calorie-Posting Rules For Chains
• GM's Salaried Retirees Seek Official Representation
• Will Sotomayor Be Kind To Employers?
• Venable Adds Employment Partner From McDermott
• Sterling Contract Doesn't Bar Class Action: Arbitrator
• Saul Ewing Lures 7 Buchanan Ingersoll Attys
• On Securities, Sotomayor Sticks To 'Nuts And Bolts'
• Corporex Rejigs Malpractice Suit Against Proskauer
• Plaintiffs Seek Reconsideration In Gas Antitrust MDL
• Sidley Austin Tax Shelter Claims Ruled Time-Barred
• WilmerHale Tells Some Attys To Find Other Work
• GM Scores $33B DIP Cash, Plus Buyer For Hummer
• Force Chrysler To Comply With Lemon Laws: Groups
• GM Ch. 11 Judge Finds Himself In The Spotlight
• Contact Lens Cleaner Settlements Cost Bausch $250M
• Fulbright & Jaworski Ducks Sanction In Envelope Tiff
• Indiana Funds, Chrysler Battle Over Appeal
• Morgan Lewis Adds Merrill Ex-VP As Litigation Partner
• Bank Of NY Appeals Lyondell DIP Order
• Ark. Atty Pleads Guilty To $9M Settlement Fund Theft
• Yamaha Reaches $2M Deal In WaveRunner Crash
• The State Of Section 36(b) Litigation
• Lehman, Deutsche Bank CDS Transfer Terms OK'd
• Duke To Shut Generators, Pay Fine For CAA Slip-Ups
• SEC On Warpath Over Internal Leaks: Report
• High Court Seeks SG Input On 'Foreign-Cubed' Cases
• GM's Bankruptcy Lures Top-Tier Legal Talent
• Final OK Sought For $2M Deal In ACE Securities MDL
• Ex-Thelen Workers Drop Calif. Suit For Federal Action
• Salinger Sues Over Unauthorized 'Catcher' Sequel
• Dueling Patents Partly Invalidated In Lexapro Row
• Caraustar Enters Ch. 11 As $190M In Debt Looms
• Obama Takes Early Shots At GM Dissidents
• States Can Handle Hydraulic Fracturing: Gas Industry
• MetLife Wants 10 General Growth Ch. 11 Cases Nixed
• Delphi Strikes Deals To Sell Assets, Exit Ch. 11