By contrast, as University of Texas law professor Lynn Baker prepared to begin her scheduled talk on "ethical and liability issues in group litigation, " 30% of the audience headed for the ballroom exit.
The plaintiffs in the Sears case are represented by Lieff Cabraser, Seeger Weiss and the Complex Litigation Group in Chicago.
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He sued the US Government with the help of the Public Citizen Litigation Group to obtain all the documents in the Einstein file.
For those following the NIR Group saga, the litigation is notable because it unveils Highmount as an institutional investor of NIR Group.
Powers, the head of the securities litigation practice group at Baker Hostetler.
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If you are asked to disclose how you target members of a terrorist group in order to allow litigation to go forward, you're basically giving away the keys to the store.
Every civil section and its respective litigation support staff participates in the group in order to uncover and implement best practices.
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Janice Brown, founder of Brown Law Group, a San Diego law firm that specializes in employment litigation, says monitoring employees' computer activities isn't illegal.
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The bank still has unresolved litigation related to mortgage-backed securities with a group of private parties including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, BlackRock and PIMCO.
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For investors in NIR Group funds, however, the most troubling disclosure in the litigation is that on Tuesday PIPE Equity wrote down its NIR assets down to 30 cents on the dollar.
On January 28, 2008, " Habeas Lawyers for Obama, " a group that describes itself as "deeply involved in the Guantanamo litigation" on behalf of enemy combatants, wrote a letter advocating Obama's candidacy.
The plaintiffs won funding from London-based Burford Group last year, and that firm, which invests in corporate litigation, demanded that Patton Boggs join the case.
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Julie Rikelman, litigation director for the Center for Reproductive Rights, said the group has provided three attorneys to argue that case.
The litigation shows that PIPE Equity Partners has written down its stakes in an NIR Group fund down to 30% of the last reported net asset value.
But now those firms are more broadly vulnerable to both regulation and litigation when any local member firm, now part of a large cross-border group, screws up an audit.
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The other would actually compromise public health and would constitute capitulation to the NRDC, giving encouragement to every special interest and activist group that wants custom-drafted regulations based on ideology and speculation and that can afford expensive litigation.
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Some of the fringe activist groups opposed to genetic engineering have an anti-science, anti-technology, anti-business agenda, but given the environmental advantages of Roundup-ready seeds it's puzzling that a group like the Sierra Club, one of the co-plaintiffs in the alfalfa and sugar beet litigation, is working so hard to keep the seeds off the market.
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