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After six weeks and 13 witnesses, lawyers for Israel's former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon last week rested their $50 million libel case against Time Inc. in a Manhattan federal courtroom. Paul Saunders, a lawyer for the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which is defending Time Inc., then stepped to the podium. Calling no defense witnesses, he announced, "Your Honor, we rest." Both sides will offer closing arguments when court reconvenes...
Both sides are represented by well-known New York City law firms: Sharon by Shea & Gould, and Time Inc. by Cravath, Swaine & Moore. The former Defense Minister first filed suit in Israel shortly after the article appeared. In June 1983 Sharon sued in New York because he felt, according to his lawyers, that only a victory in U.S. courts would fully vindicate him. The two sides have thus far taken depositions from 27 people, including 13 TIME staff members. The Israeli government has refused on security grounds to allow Time Inc.'s attorneys to depose a number of army...
Westmoreland's case is being handled by Dan Burt of the Capital Legal Foundation, which finances its activities through donations from major conservative foundations. CBS is being represented by David Boies, a partner in the prestigious New York City law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Both sides have spent more than $5 million preparing for the trial. Together they have examined more than 200,000 pages of Government documents, reviewed more than 50,000 pages of CBS's notes and files, and deposed more than 50 witnesses (Westmoreland's testimony encompasses 2,000 pages, and Reporter Mike...
...some 5,500 pages of testimony had been gathered, and more than a dozen other companies wound up filing spin-off antitrust actions of their own against IBM, producing 66 million more pages of documents. Concedes Thomas Barr, a senior partner in the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which managed IBM's defense and trained a whole generation of young antitrust lawyers in the process: "We made a lot of money on this case...
Among the most popular for this age of anxiety is protection from financial and physical danger. For financial security, many firms provide expensive investment counseling to help executives find tax shelters. At the Manhattan law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, one partner spends his entire time investing and sheltering his colleagues' earnings...