Bingham McCutchen v Proskauer Rose

Bingham McCutchen and Proskauer Rose
Affiliations ? History? Lawsuits?

"Experienced Proskauer Rose LLP labor and employment partner Arthur Silbergeld has departed for Bingham McCutchen LLP's Santa Monica, Calif., "
http://www.law360.com/company_articles/468/4?start_page=1


"Prior to joining the firm, Jason S. Scoffield was an associate
at Proskauer Rose LLP in its Boston office."

http://www.bingham.com/Lawyer.aspx?LawyerID=1225


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Proskauer Rose Connections with 911, Being Trade Center Counsel and with Dietrich Schness

Dietrich Schnell, 9-11 mastermind with Krane, the guys who pulled the buildings down really. Proskauer Rose was counsel to owner of trade centers and worked on trying to bilk insurance companies for two buildings. Perhaps someone from porksour came up with a wag the dog event to diffuse the investigations of Patentgate, nothing like a war to take eye off prize.

Proskauer Rose Connections

Stanford Fall-Out: Partner Leaves Proskauer And Chadbourne Sued

"The numbers of lawyers caught up in the fall-out from Allen Stanford's alleged fraud continues to grow.

Chadbourne & Parke has been added as a defendant to a shareholder class action lawsuit that also names Proskauer Rose and its former partner, Thomas V. Sjoblom.

The suit claims defendants aided and abetted Stanford's alleged fraud.

Sjoblom withdrew from the firm sometime after the class action was filed in August, The National Law Journal said.

NLJ: The class action alleges that attorney [Sjoblom], while he worked at New York-based Chadbourne & Parke and later at New York's Proskauer Rose, participated in a $7 billion investment fraud orchestrated by the Texas company...

Sjoblom's withdrawal [from the Proskauer partnership] follows a guilty plea in August by former Stanford Chief Financial Officer James Davis, which appeared to implicate Sjoblom in a conspiracy to thwart a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into the alleged fraud.

Sjoblom joined Proskauer in 2006 from Chadbourne. Before that he spent 20 years at the SEC.

Chadbourne declined to comment to the National Law Journal. Proskaur said the plaintiffs have no basis for their claims against the firm.

*I worked at Chadbourne in 2007 and 2008 "

Source of Post
http://www.businessinsider.com/staford-fall-out-partner-leaves-proskauer-and-chadbourne-sued-2009-10
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Scott Harshbarger - Proskauer Rose - ACORN's model whitewash - led by former Chief Judge Judith Kaye

Looks like things are starting to look up for those scoundrels, er, "community organizers," at ACORN.

At least, their friends are starting to run interference for them again.

A congressional research arm said Tuesday that the left-wing pressure group -- which Congress recently voted to cut off from federal funds after a sting operation caught employees dispensing housing-fraud advice to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute -- violated no federal regulations.


This follows a Brooklyn federal judge's ruling this month that Congress' action was itself unconstitutional -- and an "internal review" (read: whitewash) by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger that found "no evidence" of illegal action on ACORN's part.


Indeed, Scott Harshbarger of Proskauer Rose blamed the whole mess on lax standards introduced by the group's disgraced former leader, Wade Rathke, explaining that the scandal "erupted just as ACORN's reform leadership was about to complete an ambitious and professionally directed organizational and cultural transformation."
How convenient.

But recall that Rathke, ACORN's founder, resigned last year after it was revealed that he'd helped cover up embezzlement of group funds by his brother.

The likelier explanation: ACORN was a suspect endeavor from the start -- and still is.
Certainly, it's beyond absurd to claim that such a group has a constitutional right to pick taxpayers' pockets.

But we're more interested in what all this means for ACORN's bastard child in New York, the equally sketchy Working Families Party.

The WFP is being probed by the Staten Island DA and the Manhattan US attorney for allegedly circumventing campaign-finance law by undercharging candidates for its services.
And, sure enough, it's commissioned its own internal "review" -- this one led by former Chief Judge Judith Kaye.


No doubt, she's spending her holiday taking notes on Harshbarger's technique.


But, ironically enough, one section of Harshbarger's report may have direct bearing on the WFP.
To introduce some quality control into ACORN's operations, he suggests dissolving the dozens of semi-autonomous front groups that now do much of the organization's heavy lifting.

Any chance that might include the WFP itself -- which was founded by ACORN and Big Labor, and which still shares senior leadership with its parent group?

Alas, given the party's recent electoral successes, that seems unlikely.
But hey, we can hope.

'Tis the season for miracles, after all."


Source of Post
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/acorn_model_whitewash_mg5LzZXl2sp2asY5CFMqpK

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Is this the Same Scott Harshbarger that is Senior Counsel at Proskauer Rose? Doesn't Judith Kay and Proskauer Connections, Favors, Affiliations and Look the Other Ways .. Go Way Back...

These folks are all in bed together and Circling the Wagons, the Truth is Irrelevant, Corruption and Connection is all that Matters and YOU Lose.

Scott Harshbarger of Proskauer Rose: Either You Stand with the Victim or you Stand with the Criminal. Judith Kaye as a Supreme Court Judge protected Proskauer Rose in a Trillion Dollar Paten Heist Case Right? And he husband Was a Partner there right? Well there is no justice, no Truth - there is only Opinion and Favors Owed.
Harshbarger Scott

Proskauer has launched its Not-For-Profit/Exempt Organizations Blog

"NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- As the legal and regulatory environment continues to present challenges for non-profit organizations, Proskauer has launched its Not-For-Profit/Exempt Organizations Blog to keep organizations, clients and media abreast of issues and developments impacting the sector - ranging from governance structure to tax planning to asset protection.

Found at http://nonprofitlaw.proskauer.com/ , the blog will harness the collective resources of several Proskauer lawyers specializing in areas that include tax, corporate law, intellectual property, labor law, real estate and personal planning, who will make frequent posts. At issue currently are the far reaching implications of Massachusetts' new data security laws, fees increases on tax exemption applications, and rules governing endowment funds in New York, which have come into focus in the wake of significant charitable endowment losses as a result of investments with Bernard Madoff.

"Proskauer is sought after by some of the nation's leading institutions and organizations - from the Bloomberg Family Foundation to The William J. Clinton Foundation and the YWCA USA - to provide a wide range of services at a time when non-profits are facing greater demands for transparency and accountability than ever before," said Jacob I. Friedman, who heads Proskauer's Not-For-Profit/Exempt Organizations Group and is the immediate past chair of the firm's Tax Department. "Our work with clients of this caliber speaks to why Proskauer is the ideal source for information on the complex issues in this area."

"This blog provides an opportunity to feed non-profit leadership crucial information while facilitating a dialogue about the topics that impact their bottom lines," added A. Nicole Spooner, Editor of the Not-for-Profit/Exempt Organizations blog and a member of the Not-For-Profit/Exempt Organizations Group. "

By adding a comment box and links to authors' contact information, we hope to encourage readers to share feedback, questions and concerns."

This is Proskauer's third blog. It follows the New Media & Technology Law Blog, which covers legal developments related to technology, media and communications, and the Privacy Law Blog, which covers issues pertaining to privacy and data security law and was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress historic collection of Internet materials.

An industry leader, Proskauer's Not-For-Profit/Exempt Organizations Group represents a wide range of non-profit/tax-exempt clients that also includes: The Broadway League, which is the national trade association for the Broadway industry, acting as general counsel to the League for more than 50 years; Continuum Health Partners, a large university hospital and not-for-profit health services research and philanthropic organization, on various matters including the creation of a hospital system including Beth Israel Medical Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital and Long Island College Hospital; issues before numerous state Attorney General offices; and the corporate restructuring of two large global charitable organizations, among many other key representations.

About Proskauer
Founded in 1875, Proskauer is a global law firm widely recognized for its leadership in a variety of legal services provided to clients worldwide from offices in Boca Raton, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Newark, Paris, Sao Paulo and Washington, DC. Additional information about the firm, which has extensive experience in all areas of practice important to businesses, not-for-profit institutions and individuals, can be found at www.proskauer.com. "
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Source:
http://boston.dbusinessnews.com/viewnews.php?article=bwire/20091207005708r1.xml
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What do you Folks Think of This? I think it is to Get More Money from the Non-Profit and Foundation Sector. It cannot be with a good motive... I mean let's NEVER forget the Stealing of Inventors Patents and what REALLY goes on behind the Closed Doors of the Proskauer Rose Law Firm. I would be VERY Skeptical about the Real Motives of this New Blog Launch. Affiliations, Connections ... the Name Game, YET ignoring Bar Complaints.. acting above the Law, Frauding the US Patent Office.. No One Cares and Now a NEW blog.. yada yada and WOW it is their 3rd One, they are really getting into this Intellectual Property thing.. next thing you know Kenneth Rubenstein will attempt to Patent Blogs.....

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Mary Immaculate now in hands of another developer

"The ever-evolving fate of what was once Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica has changed course once again.

Jack Guttman, who purchased Mary Immaculate and St. John’s Hospital in Elmhurst in an October bankruptcy auction, relinquished ownership of the Jamaica site to real estate developer Joseph Chetrit about three weeks ago, according to Isaac Abraham,a spokesman for Guttman. Guttman and Chetrit closed on the deal about two weeks ago, Abraham said.

Guttman is still the owner of the St. John’s site.

Chetrit and Guttman have had a troubled history with development in the city. In October Chetrit traded his property on 100th Street in Manhattan for a Jewish nursing home at 120 West 106 Street so he could develop upscale condominiums at the Jewish Home and Hospital Life Care site, whichis in an area slated for downsizing.

Guttman and his father, Joshua Guttman, were charged with 434 counts of failure to maintain privately owned waterfront property after a 10-alarm fire broke out in 2006 at one of their Brooklyn properties, the Greenpoint Terminal Market.

Chetrit did not return a phone call to his Manhattan office.

Abraham did not say what role Chetrit played in the bankruptcy auction, but Dan Andrews, a spokesman for Borough President Helen Marshall, said the real estate developer was a silent partner with Guttman. Silent partners typically provide significant capital for an investment but do not have to submit their name for public knowledge.

“Guttman has a silent partner who now has control of the site,” Andrews said. “The borough president has tried to have a meeting with [Guttman] but without success. He has not returned our phone calls.”

Guttman never relayed information about Chetrit being involved in the $26 million purchase of Mary Immaculate and St. John’s in October to the borough president, Andrews said.

“It came about as a surprise,” he said.

St. John’s and Mary Immaculate, owned by bankrupt and shuttered Caritas Health Care, were sold to Guttman at a bankruptcy auction Oct. 16. The auction took place at the midtown Manhattan offices of law firm Proskauer Rose and was not open to the public.

ADVERTISEMENTCaritas, which filed for bankruptcy protection in February and soon after began liquidating its assets, owned the St. John’s and Mary Immaculate sites, both of which were placed on the auction block in May.

Queens officials, including Marshall and Queens Civic Congress President Corey Bearak, have said they want to see the St. John’s and Mary Immaculate sites house health care facilities. But Philip Weiss, the spokesman for CB Richard Ellis, the firm that conducted the auction, said the buyer “envisions several options for redeveloping the Mary Immaculate site, including an educational facility, nonprofit organization use, government operations or a religious facility.”

CB Richard Ellis was retained by Proskauer Rose, Caritas Health Care’s bankruptcy counsel.

“I’m less interested in who got the properties rather than what will happen with the properties,” Bearak said.

Abraham said he is unsure as to what will happen with the St. John’s site and cannot speak for Chetrit. He did say that whatever takes place with the Elmhurst property, “all ideas will be presented to elected officials, boards and leadership in the community.”

“One of the most important things for the Queens community is to bring jobs back to the area,” Abraham said. “If you look at the mom-and-pop shops in the area, they’re dying since the hospitals closed. They are looking for something to build back the economy.”

Guttman has not conducted “much community outreach,” according to Abraham, but he said he plans to communicate with residents after the new year. "

Source:
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2009/12/16/queens/queenszhijnnk12162009.txt
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