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A Look Back at 2011 as We Head into 2012
Ready for a New Year in litigation? Well, 2011 had some interesting developments in the securities arena, while preparing for 2012 means focusing on records management. In the post Dodd-Frank world, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has enthusiastically brought actions against big and small violations at an unprecedented rate. The SEC filed a record [...]
Litigation a Way of Life in Payments Processing Industry
On Oct. 12, 2011, MasterCard and Visa, the two largest credit cards and payment networks, were sued by the National ATM Counsel, Inc., a trade group representing operators of automated teller machines. The trade group claims that Visa and MasterCard fix prices and suppress competition between ATM networks. In October 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice [...]
Got the Eminent Domain Blues? We Can Help.
Eminent domain refers to the power possessed by the state over all property within the state, specifically its power to appropriate property for a public use. If you have ever encountered the exercise of eminent domain against your business property, you understand just how difficult life can become when the government decides to acquire private [...]
Crafting Remedies for Breach of Contract
Nobody wants to enter a relationship expecting it to fail. It’s easier to believe both parties will perform in good faith, as expected and with integrity. At the exciting start of a relationship, the last thing on anyone’s mind is what would happen if someone failed to live up to their part of the bargain. [...]
How O.J Simpson Lost (feat Hornberger & Brewer LLP)
Aren’t they beautiful? Aren’t they beautiful?” Daniel Petrocelli repeated the words in the “clean room” as he stared at the 30 different pictures that had just emerged from a FedEx package and were spread out on an oval table. It was the middle of the Christmas recess in the O.J. Simpson civil trial, and the [...]
O.J. Simpson Trials: 1995 & 1996-97 – Civil Trial
Plaintiffs: Fred Goldman, the estate of Ronald Goldman, Sharon Rufo, and the estate of Nicole Brown Simpson Defendant: Orenthal James Simpson Plaintiff Claim: Liability for assault and battery and for wrongful deaths Chief Defense Lawyers: Robert Baker, Phil Baker, Bob Blasier, Daniel Leonard Chief Lawyers for the Plaintiffs: For Fred Goldman and the estate of [...]
