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30 Jan, 2007 4:02 am
Here is a well written and educational decision on a Morgan Lewis motion for summary judgment for legal fees based upon "account stated." It's
not often that the law firm loses this motion. Read part of Justice Richter's decision:In this...
24 Apr 3:04 am
... But as detailed in the April 23, 2009 letter (here) from New York AG Andrew Cuomo to Sen. Chris Dodd, Rep. Barney Frank and others, if ...
and vice versa, as part of the events that led to the original deal? 2. Did Lewis and the BofA board accede to the fed officials' demands in
order to preserve their ... question. A December 22 email from Paulson to the BofA board (here) seems to suggest that Lewis and the board was
concerned about preventing disclosure, but the email arguably is ambiguous. In the email ...
20 Feb 8:56 am
... trading, after falling to a 25-year low - or $3.19 - earlier in the session. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been investigating
$3.6 billion in bonuses Merrill Lynch & Co. executives received, and ... also promised to cover losses on more than $100 billion in risky assets. The additional support was provided
to Bank of America as Lewis showed trepidation about completing the deal to acquire Merrill. The government helped orchestrate the acquisition
of Merrill by Bank of America over ...
3 May 3:14 pm
I'm pleased to introduce Professor Andrew Taslitz, who will be guest blogging with us this month. Andy is the Welsh S. White Distinguished
Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 2008-09, and ... was a prosecutor in Philadelphia, PA. and, before that, an associate in the litigation
department of Schnader, Harrison, Segal, and Lewis. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Some of his publications
include: * RECONSTRUCTING THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: ...
5 May, 2008 2:56 pm
The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports that Chanthea Prak, 21, a soldier stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington was killed in a head-on crash near
Roseburg, Oregon. Oregon police reported that Prak was eight months pregnant. The accident occurred around 3:15 a.m. in the southbound lanes of I-5. Prak was a passenger in a car driven
by Andrew Cajita, 21, of San Mateo, California when a car driven by Cheryl Rowe, 40, or Albany, ran into them head-on as Rowe drove ...
14 Jan, 2008 2:42 am
... of Purolite Corp., a manufacturer of specialty resins for water purifiers based outside Philadelphia, sued Morgan Lewis in 2004 for legal
malpractice. The case began in the early nineties when an accountant questioned a sale by Purolite's Canadian subsidiary ... Purolite pleaded guilty to charges concerning reimbursement
of travel expenses, the company said in court filings. A lawyer for Morgan Lewis said the firm advised the company not to sell to Cuba and that
Purolite continued to do so because ...
1 Feb, 2008 3:28 am
... law suit was born. NY Lawyer reports "Both sides said Morgan Lewis' original advice in 1993 was for the company to stop all sales to Cuba
and a memorandum ... would put them in violation of their respective countries' blocking orders, Morgan Lewis advised Purolite days later to
continue to sell to Cuba from foreign offices but ... statute of limitations. Although attorneys for both sides in Bro-Tech v. Morgan Lewis
spent the majority of yesterday morning's closing statements discussing whether Purolite ...
1 Feb, 2008 4:08 am
... , but on the merits and not on the question of the statute of limitations. From NY Lawyer: "Morgan Lewis & Bockius yesterday defeated a
$20 million breach of contract claim brought by a former client. The 12 jurors in Brodie v. Morgan Lewis came back just before noon after
three-and-one-half hours of deliberations over ... brought the suit within the four-year statute of limitations, they said Morgan Lewis did not
breach its contract with the Brodies by advising them to continue selling their ...
28 May 9:00 am
... the right thing and the family was satisfied by their gestures." According to police reports Lewis and friend Caleb Hall were riding in a
bike lane on Eastlake Avenue East ... dump truck and screamed for McClane to stop but it was too late and Lewis was pulled under the truck and
was crushed and killed. Unaware that he had ... group of bicyclists carried out a wheeled demonstration along the streets of Seattle in memory of Lewis and to call on city officials to take more action to ensure bike safety, ...
10 Dec, 2007 12:34 am
... a surprise TYC audit found "unsafe conditions" at the facility. ... According to the AP, the inmates allege "they were mentally, physically and sexually abused in 2006 and early
2007 by David Andrew Lewis, 24, who worked the night shift until he was fired in March."
Lewis, a ... sex offender, was dismissed after TYC officials learned he was on the public sex offender registry. Lewis claims he divulged his sex offender status when he applied for the position. A GEO spokesman ...
18 Jul, 2007 2:21 am
Jackson Lewis LLP reports this Federal Case from the DC Circuit which holds that they are taxable."DC Circuit rules that damages for
non-physical injury are subject to federal taxation Jackson Lewis LLP USA July 13 2007 The U.S. Court of...
11 Jul, 2007 9:34 pm
Sponsored Post Sometimes it's tough to find a lawyer when you're in need. If you're in the Denver area, you might check out the Brake law firm. Andrew T. Brake founded the firm and handles personal injury matters with his partner, Brian Lewis. Brake Law works
on Denver medical malpractice cases, where they litigate claims such as misdiagnosis, mistreatment, and lack of informed consent. They take cases on a contingent fee ...
2 Feb, 2007 4:36 am
From the blog Judicial Reports, which makes for very amusing reading. It reports all appellate reversals of New York cases. Here is one in legal malpractice:"LEGAL MALPRACTICE: Justice
Yvonne Lewis granted summary judgment for Ella Jampolskaya in a legal malpractice...
23 May, 2007 6:22 am
What an International Cast! "Southern District of New York Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed civil racketeering charges seeking millions in damages
against Faith Zaman and Thomas William Derbyshire by the younger brother of the Sultan of Brunei -- Duli Yang Teramat...
23 Jan, 2008 3:45 am
... claims of damage be a basis for legal malpractice." Russo v. Feder, Kaszovitz, Isaacson, Weber, Skala & Bass, LLP, 301 A.D.2d 63, 67 (N.Y. App. Div. 2002) (citing Pellegrino,
738 N.Y.S.2d 320,). See also Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP v. IBuyDigital.com, Inc., 2007 NY Slip Op 50149U, at 6 (N.Y. Misc. 2007). In
order to establish negligence in a legal malpractice case, a plaintiff must allege that the attorney's conduct "'fell below the ordinary and reasonable skill and knowledge commonly ...
25 Jan, 2008 3:17 am
... case from a state court in North Carolina to federal district court, where the security firm could have mounted a stronger defense. After losing its bid to have the case transferred
in October 2005, Blackwater discarded its Wiley Rein team, which included: Fred Fielding, now White House counsel; Barbara Van Gelder, now an attorney with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Scott McCaleb, who is a partner with Wiley Rein; and Margaret Ryan, now a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
21 Feb, 2008 3:36 am
... , 25 [emphasis added]; Egnotovich Aff., ¶6 [emphasis added]; see also Loeb Aff., ¶¶4-5). To the extent, if any, that these representations made by Havens are untrue, they are broken
promises, and not fraudulent statements of fact (see e.g. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP v. IBuyDigitial.com, Inc., 14 Misc 3d 1224[A], 2007
NY Slip Op 50149[U], *7 [Sup Ct, NY County 2007] [dismissing counterclaim that plaintiff "fraudulently induced (defendant) into entering the engagement letter by stating that ( ...
29 May, 2008 4:19 am
... Wiley Rein legal malpractice case has been dismissed. This was a case with major players: "The Wiley team that defended Blackwater in the underlying case consisted of Fred Fielding,
now White House counsel; Barbara Van Gelder, now a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Scott McCaleb, still a partner at Wiley; and
Margaret Ryan, now a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Blackwater's malpractice suit named Ryan as a separate defendant because, according to the complaint, ...
2 Jun, 2008 3:34 am
... fails, none of her clients will be executed, jailed, or suffer public shaming as a consequence. As one patent attorney once "boasted" to a group of non-patent attorney colleagues,
"Patent law is totally amoral." Almost 200 years ago, in Lowell v. Lewis, F. Cas. 1018, 1019 (C.C.D. Mass. 1817), Justice Story proscribed
certain inventions as too immoral for patenting if they would be "injurious to the well being, good policy, or sound morals of society." However, in the ensuing years this "moral ...
20 Jun, 2008 8:43 pm
... between the kinds of works on which it's easy to display copyright notice (a book, for example) and the kinds of works that often don't bear the author's name (like a printed
textile that's been cut and sewn into a garment)?" Dan Lewis suggests going even further and that online publishers should have bear the burden
of taking an action to maintain copyright in abandoned works, Copyright and the Duty to Maintain "In the digital age, with content available over the Web, why put all the burden on ...
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