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April 24, 2012
Press Release
Cozen O’Connor Member Honored with a 2012 Alice Paul Equality Award
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April 20, 2012
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Spontaneous Combustion Alert - Subrogation and Recovery Alert! - After speaking to your cause and origin expert on a new large loss you learn that there was no electrical device or other product in the area of origin. You also learn that the usual series of potential causes have been ruled out-arson, negligently discarded smoking material, or the structural wiring to the property. So you ask: How can a fire start when there is nothing there to ignite the fire? Welcome to spontaneous combustion fires.
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April 19, 2012
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Samuel A. Lewis discusses the “collision” of first amendment, fair use protection and trademark rights in a case regarding the rights of trademark owners.
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April 18, 2012
News
Ken Fisher quoted in Capital Tonight
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April 18, 2012
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Over the past decade, many European countries have passed laws mandating that individuals and employers report criminal conduct. Adversely, in the U.S. individuals are typically not required to report observed criminal conduct. The article presents three hypothetical situations, in which employees have committed crimes.
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April 17, 2012
Press Release - Utility & Energy
Cozen O’Connor Adds Three Dewey & LeBoeuf Attorneys Including Energy Partner Michael D. Klein
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April 16, 2012
Press Release
Cozen O'Connor Joins Support Center for Child Advocates to Celebrate 35 Years of Child Advocacy
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April 16, 2012
Publication
In the 2000 World/Subway Series, Roger Clemens hurled a broken bat at Mike Piazza. In hindsight, we can ask: Was it “roid rage”?
Clemens now finds himself on trial this week in a real Washington D.C. courtroom concerning his use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs).
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April 16, 2012
Press Release - Intellectual Property
Cozen O’Connor Continues Growth of IP Litigation Practice with Seven Partners, Two Associates from Duane Morris
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April 13, 2012
Publication - Business
JOBS Act Becomes Law and SEC Issues Guidance: The JOBS Act Reforms the Regulatory Scheme Governing the Offering of Securities - Securities Offerings and Regulation Alert! - The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS Act, was enacted on April 5, 2012. The JOBS Act was a legislative response to the sharp decline in public offerings during the last decade. It is intended to reform the private and public offering process to ease the regulatory burdens on smaller companies and facilitate capital formation.
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April 12, 2012
News
Joseph Dever was quoted in The Wall Street Journal - MarketWatch article entitled ''Goldman Sachs fined $22 million over ‘huddles’'' regarding Goldman’s settlement with the SEC over allegations that the bank had no policies in place to prevent analysts from sharing nonpublic information with the firm’s traders.
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April 11, 2012
Publication - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring, Business
Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware Denies Cramdown of Liquidating Plan Because Approving Classes Were "Artificially Impaired" - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Alert! - When a debtor is unable to obtain acceptance of its chapter 11 plan of reorganization or liquidation by all impaired creditor classes, it may attempt to “cramdown” the plan upon certain rejecting classes.1 One of the requirements in
order to obtain confirmation of a plan through a cramdown is that at least one class of impaired claims must approve the plan, determined without including the votes of insider creditors.
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April 10, 2012
News - Tax
Dan Schulder Elected Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel
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April 09, 2012
Publication
Federal court class actions have been around for over 50 years. As they grew in importance in the 1960s and 1970s, it was a bit like the tale of Frankenstein. Had the class action rule created an improved tool allowing small claimants a fair day in court against large, deep-pocketed corporations? Or had the class action become something greater than intended — something that turned the risks and costs of litigation so much against corporate defendants that the class action had merely substituted one form of unfairness for another?
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April 09, 2012
Publication - Insurance Coverage - Insurance
Reinsurer and Third Party Claims Administrators Not Proper Defendants in Asbestos Coverage Action - Global Insurance Alert! - On February 29, 2012, Judge Rita Novak, of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., issued a ruling of major significance granting the Motion to Dismiss filed by Cozen O’Connor on behalf of its clients and holding that a policyholder could
not hold a reinsurer or third-party claims administrators liable for allegedly assuming the direct insurer’s insuring obligations or tortious interference.
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April 09, 2012
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Federal court class actions have been around for over 50 years. As they grew in importance in the 1960s and 1970s, it was a bit like the tale of Frankenstein. Had the class action rule created an improved tool allowing small claimants a fair day in court...?
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April 05, 2012
News
Aaron Krauss Guest Blogs for The Food Recall Monitor
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April 03, 2012
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Evaluating Subrogation Claims Arising from the Lower North Fork Wildfire in Jefferson County, Colorado - Subrogation and Recovery Alert! - On Monday, March 19, 2012, the Colorado State Forest Service initiated a controlled burn on property owned by the Denver Water Board located in Jefferson County, Colo. This 50 acre prescribed burn was part of an ongoing fuel management program in the Lower North Fork area as part of a service agreement between the Colorado State Forest Service and the Denver Water Board.
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April 01, 2012
Publication - Condominiums & Cooperatives, Real Estate
Leni Morrison Cummins, a member in the firm's Real Estate Group, answers a Q&A from a reader about who pays for a water leak in a residence.
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April 01, 2012
Publication - Business, Public & Project Finance
It’s the Issuer’s Prerogative MSRB Proposes Rule Amendments for Retail Order Periods for Bond Offerings - Government Finance Officers Association of Pennsylvania Newsletter - For various types of municipal bonds or notes that are publicly offered, the marketing process may often involve a retail order period that is for a day or so prior to pricing the bonds with institutional investors. Retail order periods are meant to gain access to individual investors who typically purchase bonds in smaller lots than institutional investors. A significant percentage of municipal securities is held by individual...
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