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8 Jan, 2007 8:00 am
Mexican film director Juan Catlett has filed suit claiming Gibson stole scenes from Catlett's film "Return to Atzlan" for Gibson's "Apocalypto." Ben Carrozza at Dose.ca reports on the matter here, implying that plagiarism claims may be out of hand with these closing remarks: "No
word on whether Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke or John have considered a similar lawsuit against Gibson
for his use of their work in 2004 Biblical piece The Passion of the Christ."
12 Jun 12:00 am
... registration of the mark shown below for "guitars," finding it likely to cause confusion with Gibson's mark. The Board concluded that Applicant Concordia adopted its design while aware of the custom in the
trade to utilize headstock designs as source ... has simply approached too closely to the well-known source-indicator of a competitor. Finally, the Board pointed out that
Gibson's use of a headstock design as a trademark "is consistent with the overall custom in the trade," and it concluded that " ...
21 Apr 7:32 pm
... has been in trouble for almost three years. Hollywood insiders cite Mr. Gibson's well-publicized 2006 DUI arrest as the milepost
marking the beginning of the discord between husband and wife. Reportedly, the two have been ... Malibu area for more than two years. From a legal perspective, the date of
separation, which reports say is yet to be determined, will mark the point where spousal earnings cease to be community property. But this may
be academic. By even the most conservative estimates, Mel ...
13 May, 2008 10:04 am
... his producer's share of profits derived from the $600 million of the film's worldwide receipts. Fitzgerald alleges that Gibson had the
express purpose of depriving him of the full fruits of his efforts as the screenwriter, and that Fitzgerald experienced severe ... at GREAT AMERICAN PITCHFEST Date: Saturday - June 21,
2008Time: 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Mark will be a speaker at the upcoming Great American Pitchfest. Screenwriters need to protect themselves from
the people they write about and producers ...
22 Oct, 2008 11:03 am
... investigations, shareholder derivative suits and securities class actions related to the recent credit crisis. In recent months, Gibson
Dunn has hired three other partners in securities litigation and accountant liability, including two from Heller Ehrman. Last month, Mark
Schonfeld, the former director of the SEC's New York Regional Office, joined Gibson Dunn as co-chairman of the securities enforcement practice
group. Also, last month, Charles Jaeger joined from ...
17 Sep, 2008 10:00 am
Andrew Gibson joined San Diego-based Marks Golia as an associate, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported (here). Gibson represents clients in public and private construction litigation and in commercial litigation such as breach of contract, unfair business practices,
interference with contract and property right disputes. He was previously at Sacramento law firm Rushford and Bonotto
30 Apr, 2008 6:06 pm
Anybody got a tourniquet? Another lawyer has left Heller Ehrman, this time to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Complex securities litigator George
Brown, who has been with ... where we do a ton of work with the accounting firms," said Russell Hansen, head of Gibson's Palo Alto office.
"What's most attractive to us about him is that he has ... work cut out for him. A Stanford student group gave the firm low-to-mediocre marks on diversity, and the firm has
apparently lost at least one client in the past for ...
1 Dec, 2008 5:41 pm
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced today that the firm has elected 13 new partners, effective January 1, 2009. Among those partners are:
Sean C ... s Bay Area Diversity Committee and a member of the Hiring Committee. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he served as the Director of
Legal Affairs for an Internet software company in San ... Order of the Coif and served as a staff member of the Southern California Law Review. Mark Osher (Real Estate - Los Angeles) - Osher has broad experience representing ...
11 Sep, 2008 9:17 am
Mark Schonfeld, a 12-year veteran of the SEC, and, most recently, the top cop in its New York regional office, is cashing in his chips for the
private sector. According to one person familiar with the matter, the 45 year-old Schonfeld will join Gibson Dunn next month. Here's the report
from the WSJ's SEC guru, Kara Scannell. (Click here for an interview that the NYLJ did with Schonfeld (Harvard Law) last ...
7 Dec, 2007 1:40 pm
... a 20-year lease for 550,000 square-feet with landlord Brookfield Properties after more than a year of what Newmark Knight Frank broker Mark
Weiss called "very competitive" and "very intricate" negotiations. Cleary Gottlieb previously had 450,000 square feet under a lease due to ... ; we're guessing Cleary got a very good
deal to stay in its current spot. (The terms of the renewal were not disclosed.) Meanwhile, a few miles uptown, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is
making a move. Details after the jump.
14 Mar, 2008 12:29 pm
On February 20, 2008, the Supreme Court decided Preston v. Ferrer. The Court held that when parties agree to arbitrate all questions arising under a contract, the Federal Arbitration
Act (FAA), supersedes state laws lodging primary jurisdiction in another forum, whether judicial or administrative. Mark Perry of
Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher discusses the case.
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5 Jun, 2007 10:12 am
... which she comments on (among other things) my post about that case: The problem here was that Gibson Dunn took the case pro bono, and as
such, its fee agreement may not ... brings us from Scott Greenfield's irrational and unilateral anonymous charitability to Gibson Dunn and the
Arbor Hill case. According to Adam Liptak's editorial ... valuable time fighting the fee reduction. I don't have anything against Gibson Dunn,
but somewhere in there are the "lying, pretense, and deceit" that Wilson described ...
14 Feb 11:56 am
This post is by my colleagues Gail Lees, Andrew Tulumello, Chip Nierlich, Mark Whitburn and Chris Chorba. Class action lawsuits are an
increasingly pervasive force in today's business world. Defending and defeating these cases efficiently ... of a 23(f) grant in a given case, especially where the stakes are very high
and the case for review is presented compellingly. Gibson Dunn's grant rate for these petitions nationally is substantially higher than 36%; in
the Ninth Circuit, for example, where ...
10 Nov 6:16 am
... out of the House Financial Services Committee last week. The once-controversial bill was the subject of a remarkably bipartisan mark-up,
particularly in contrast to the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act (H.R. 3126) mark-up, which ... where capital is located. The bill
introduced by Representative Kanjorski was identical to the legislation proposed by the Obama Administration in July (see Gibson Dunn Client
Alert, "The Private Fund Investment Advisers Act of 2009," July 16, 2009), except for ...
22 Jun, 2008 8:23 am
... of cruise line cases and litigation. Medical records show the ship's nurses and Dr. Mark Gibson
gave Don medicine to stop vomiting four days before his death. Two days ... hours, Marlene asked medical personnel for help four times. Records show she called Dr. Gibson later that morning at 11:20 a.m. Marlene said Don was weak, confused and had a ... went to the infirmary to plead with the doctor to come see Don at
their cabin. Marlene said Gibson told her "he couldn't come because he didn't have the time" ...
22 Sep 6:23 am
... including the extent to which they enforced or failed to enforce statutory, regulatory, or supervisory requirements. • Accounting practices, including mark-to-market and fair value rules and treatment of off-balance sheet vehicles. • Tax treatment of ... start planning ahead to prepare themselves should they
be contacted or investigated by the Commission. (Editor's Note: This post is based on a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP [link] client
memorandum by Michael Bopp [link] and Aditi Prabhu [link].)
1 Nov 4:30 pm
... Tracy LaLonde, Partner, Akina Corporation Russell Lawson, Marketing Director, Sands Anderson Marks & Miller, P.C. Annie Lombroia, Chief Results Officer, Stanislaw ... ,
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Ellen Taverner, Chief Marketing Officer, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Dwain Thomas, Managing Director, Concep
Evolution ... Development Systems Manager, Latham & Watkins Katalin Vlaskovits, Marketing Manager, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Felice
Wagner, Chief Business Development Officer, ...
5 Apr, 2008 6:48 pm
The recent issue of Law Practice Management Magazine (available online) has some great articles, including 45 Tips for Competitive Intelligence by Ann Lee Gibson, Keeping Up with Marketing -Speak, by Sally Schmidt and a Roundtable on Competitive Intelligence Tools, by a variety of panelists including David
Bowerman, Cynthia Cheng Correia, Ann Lee Gibson, Mark Greene, Sabrina Pacifici, Meredith Williams and
me.
17 Oct, 2007 9:00 am
... is seeking $500,000 in damages from Littlebrook Cremation Co. and its owner, the newspaper reported. The remains in question were those of Mark Gibson who died April 29. The family reportedly discovered the error just before a scheduled memorial service
when family members noticed that ... in Alabama, but later found that another woman's remains were interred there, also by mistake. An anthropologist determined that the remains sent to
the family were not of Gibson, but another man, Keith Vincent.
18 Jul 7:31 am
This post is by my colleagues Mark Schonfeld, John Sturc, Barry Goldsmith, Eric Creizman, Jennifer Colgan Halter, Akita St. Clair, Ladan
Stewart and Matthew Estabrook. Without question, the first six months of 2009 have ... article are based on allegations made by the SEC in its charging documents and do not assume the
truth of the facts alleged in them. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP represents various parties in related matters. Thus, these descriptions do
not reflect the positions of the firm, ...
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