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Pro Bono - Law Firms An Outstanding Group Effort: The Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Greater DC Community Foundation
Editor: Please tell us about your practice at Willkie. Buono: I practice in Willkie's Telecommunications Group in the DC office. Editor: How do you make time for your pro bono work? Buono: I have always felt it is important to participate in pro bono and charitable work. Fortunately,...
Read MoreThe Many Hats Of A Prominent New York Firm
Editor: Dan, please describe your practice at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. Rubino: My practice at Willkie has been primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities and finance, corporate governance, restructurings and legal and financial compliance, investigations and reviews...
Read MoreCongress Makes Significant Changes To Rules Governing Class Actions
Effective February 18, 2005, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 ("CAFA") makes significant changes to the rules governing class actions. CAFA creates a new basis for removal of, and federal jurisdiction over, most large class action lawsuits involving parties from different states. It also...
Read MoreFor Agriculture And Aquaculture Imports, U.S. Antidumping Laws Are Now More Onerous Than Ever
America's awful antidumping ("AD") law has just gotten worse.A controversial new AD bonding requirement issued by the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") makes the law more onerous for agriculture and aquaculture imports.For even a single entry of these products, in addition to...
Read MoreA Law Firm With The Inside View On Environmental Matters
Editor: Perhaps you could each describe briefly the periods of time in which you served as General Counsel and under which Administrator. Elliott: I was General Counsel of EPA from 1989 to 1991 under William Reilly in the first Bush Administration. Fabricant: I was General Counsel of EPA...
Read MoreState Unclaimed Property Laws: A Look At Broad Trends
Unclaimed Property [ Editor's Note: The payment obligations under a 10-year compact among the states governing the distribution of unclaimed property expired last year. In this article, former Delaware Bank Commissioner Timothy R. McTaggart discusses possible state and industry responses to the...
Read MoreTreasury Issues Initial Guidance On New Deferred Compensation Rules
On December 20, 2004, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2005-1, which provides initial guidance under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 409A, enacted as part of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, makes sweeping changes to the rules...
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