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From the National Law Journal Daily Headlines March 18, 2008

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, March 18, 2008.

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FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE  |  Bear Stearns sale likely to lead to wave of litigation
"Lawyers are predicting that JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s stock-for-stock buyout of The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. at the bargain-basement price of about $2 a share is likely to generate a wave of lawsuits against Bear Stearns by shareholders and employees. Anytime a company's stock price drops precipitously creative plaintiffs lawyers will develop a theory of liability, said Ivan B. Knauer, a Washington, D.C.-based partner in the commercial litigation practice group of Philadelphia's Pepper Hamilton."

FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE  |  Winston partner is go-to lawyer for embattled politicians
"As a federal probe continues to circle the office of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, backers of the Democratic governor will be counting on one man ? former federal prosecutor Brad Lerman, the lead Winston & Strawn partner representing the Blagojevich campaign ? to keep the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago at bay."

WEB-ONLY  |  Illinois AG appeals abortion ruling
"Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan gave notice last week that her office would appeal a U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois decision last month in which the court upheld an injunction against the implementation of a 1995 state parental notification law for minors seeking an abortion."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).