By Brian BaxterContactAll Articles The Am Law DailyMay 15, 2013 Kirkland & Ellis clinched its latest large M&A deal on Wednesday as private equity client Pamplona Capital Management acquired the largest laundry equipment service provider in the U.S., as well as Read more »
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Happy Birthday Iqbal! A Q&A with Alexander Reinert
By David BarioAll Articles The Litigation DailyMay 17, 2013 Four years after the Supreme Court landed the second part of its one-two punch in Twombly and Iqbal, we caught up with the lawyer whose civil rights case on behalf of a Read more »
Judge Vacates Ropes Client’s Double Murder Conviction
Ropes counsel Ryan Malone As Ropes & Gray counsel Ryan Malone got out of a cab and headed into the Washington, D.C., office of a client for a meeting on May 8, he felt his phone buzz. Read more »
Ex-Dewey Lawyer’s Move Adds Wrench to Firm’s Bankruptcy
The announcement earlier this week that onetime Dewey & LeBoeuf partner Stephen Best had moved from Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck to Brown Rudnick has prompted a barbed email exchange between two lawyers representing clients with competing interests in now-defunct Read more »
UPDATE 1-Bankrupt Alabama county has deal on $105 mln of bonds
Tue May 14, 2013 3:29pm EDT * Deal covers county general obligation bonds * Agreement comes ahead of promised county workout plan * County says bonds will shift to fixed-rate from variable By Melinda Dickinson BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 14 (Reuters) Read more »
How Jones Day Won Role of Trying to Save Detroit
Photo by femaletrumpet02 via Flickr There was little fanfare surrounding the March 11 announcement out of Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s office that the financially crippled city, which faces more than $15 million in longterm debt obligations, had hired Jones Day Read more »
ResCap examiners’ report filed under seal
Mon May 13, 2013 3:34pm EDT May 13 (Reuters) – A report by a court-appointed independent examiner into dealings between Residential Capital LLC and the bankrupt lender’s parent, Ally Financial Inc, has been filed under seal, a lawyer for the Read more »
Law Suit Filed: Marathon Oil Faces Class Action over Detroit Refinery Explosion
May 6 2013 Detroit, MI: An environmental class action lawsuit alleging property damage has been filed against the Marathon Oil following an explosion and fire at the refinery in Melvindale on April 27.Two law firms, Hertz Schram and Macuga, Liddle Read more »
Ropes Settles Age Discrimination Suit With Ex-Partner
Ropes & Gray has settled a two-year-old discrimination lawsuit brought by former partner Patricia Martone, who claimed Ropes management routinely passed her clients off to younger male partners and unfairly pushed her out of the firm.In a one-page stipulation filed Read more »