Mayer Brown
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Recent News About Mayer Brown
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Mayer Brown partners Gabriela Sakamoto and Rebecca Seidl named to Latinvex’s 2021 “Top 100 Female Lawyers” list.
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Sam Patranella joins Mayer Brown’s growing Corporate and Energy transactional groups in Houston.
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The 2021 edition of Chambers USA ranked Mayer Brown in 52 practice categories, including eight Band One nationwide rankings.
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Mayer Brown announced that the 2020 edition of The Legal 500 United States ranked the firm in 64 categories.
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Mayer Brown announced that 10 lawyers have been recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” in The Best Lawyers in America© 2020 report in the following categories and cities.
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Mayer Brown has been named in Global Restructuring Review's GRR 100 2019 for a second consecutive year.
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Mayer Brown announced that it has been named “Americas Law Firm of The Year – Overall” at GlobalCapital’s 2019 Americas Derivatives Awards.
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Mayer Brown and Tauil & Chequer Advogados (T&C), in association with Mayer Brown, advised on two transactions named “Deal of the Year” in the Project Finance and Restructuring categories at the International Financial Law Review (IFLR)’s Americas Awards 2019, which celebrated legally innovative deals of 2018 and the teams and individuals that completed them. The winning transactions are described below.
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The 2019 edition of Chambers USA ranked Mayer Brown in 42 practice categories, including five Band One nationwide rankings.
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BEAUMONT – The Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals recently said a trial court abused its discretion regarding disputed funds in a failed real estate deal.
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PALM BEACH GARDENS – This year's Grocery Manufacturers Association's Legal Conference event is set to be held in Palm Beach Gardens on Monday, March 4 and Tuesday, March 5.
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DALLAS – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, along with 17 other groups, are seeking to overturn a recent U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that prevents financial service providers from using arbitration as a means to settle disputes with consumers and avoid class-action litigation.
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The Wall Street Journal’s Sara Randazzo last week ran a profile piece on the Elizabeth Cabraser, the lead plaintiffs’ attorney in the emissions-related class action litigation against Volkswagan AG.
While noting Cabraser’s (and her firm, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP’s) role in headline-grabbing multi district litigation, such as the Gulf oil spill, Takata air bags, GM ignition switches and breast implants, it also notes the criticism that has come the way of Cabraser and fellow “top cl
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Kenneth Anderson HOUSTON - Chicago's Sidley Austin LLP is opening its first Houston office with seven founding partners recruited from a variety of other Houston firms.
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Taft WASHINGTON -- Homeowners gained leverage for litigation against mortgage lenders through the financial reform law Congress passed this summer.
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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed by Congress this summer has tightened mortgage rules and increased homeowners' potential damages in litigation against mortgage lenders.
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Recent patent infringement cases filed in the Eastern District of Texas, March 10-17, 2010
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In the first part of this series, I discussed lawyers with some serious ethical shortcomings � stealing from clients, bribery, filing made-up lawsuits, and so on.
