Morgan Lewis News
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Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP hired insurance recovery litigators Jerold Oshinsky and Linda Kornfeld from Jenner & Block LLP as partners to open the firm’s Los Angeles office.
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP will open an office in Sydney next month with Michael Mills and Michelle Fox of Herbert Smith Freehills.
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Covington & Burling LLP sought to overturn a judge’s ruling disqualifying the firm from working for Minnesota on a lawsuit alleging 3M Co. polluted state waters.
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Seyfarth Shaw LLP will open an office in Shanghai this summer, giving the firm its first office in Asia. China practitioner Wan Li, who recently joined the firm from DLA Piper LLP, will be the chief representative and managing partner of Seyfarth’s Shanghai office.
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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP litigator Scott A. Edelman, 49, will take the helm of the firm this week succeeding Mel Immergut, 66, who has led the firm since 1995.
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Federal securities class-action filings decreased by about 10 percent last year from 2011, PricewaterhouseCoopers found in its 17th annual Securities Litigation Study published yesterday. There were 172 cases in 2012, compared with 191 cases in 2011, with a significant drop in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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Bingham McCutchen LLP lost two groups of prominent partners yesterday.
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Federal securities class action filings decreased by about 10 percent last year from 2011, PricewaterhouseCoopers found in its 17th annual Securities Litigation Study published yesterday. There were 172 cases in 2012, compared to 191 cases in 2011, with a significant drop in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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President Barack Obama picked a Democrat and two Republicans to the U.S. labor board, including a lawyer who in 2011 faulted the agency’s prosecution of Boeing Co. for opening an airplane factory in South Carolina.
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The New York International Arbitration Center will open its doors in late spring, the organization said in a statement. The center, founded with support from 33 law firms, aims to promote international arbitration in New York.
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