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Kasowitz represented Astra Asset Management, a London investment firm, in a trust instruction proceeding concerning Abacus 2006-10, a synthetic $543 million CMBS-linked CDO created by Goldman Sachs.
Kasowitz won a four-week federal jury trial on behalf of Copart in a litigation against software implementation firm Sparta Consulting and its parent company, KPIT Infosystems.
Kasowitz secures victory for MBIA in $5 billion action against 18 of the world’s largest banks.
Kasowitz restructures $2 billion investment in Lightsquared for client Harbinger Capital.
Kasowitz wins $2.25 million jury verdict and $2.5 million in punitive damages for Douglas Elliman.
Kasowitz wins Supreme Court class action decertification ruling in landmark antitrust defense case.
Kasowitz Benson Torres’s landmark $179 million arbitration award on behalf of Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz, the stars of the long-running hit TV show “Bones,” and Kathleen Reichs, its producer, against 21st Century Fox and its affiliates has been named to the Daily Journal’s list of the 2019 Top Verdicts.
Kasowitz Benson Torres’s Employment Practices and Litigation Group has been named Litigation Department of the Year for Labor and Employment by the New York Law Journal in recognition of the group’s significant litigation results during the past year.
Beginning May 2020, it will be illegal for New York City employers to test most job applicants for marijuana. This is one of several recent updates for New York employers that require that they revisit existing policies.
Kasowitz Benson Torres has achieved a victory for our pro bono client, a hearing and learning impaired New York City public school middle school student, whom the NYC Department of Education had unlawfully denied necessary special education services.
Kasowitz Benson Torres matrimonial and family law partners Kelly A. Frawley and Emily S. Pollock have co-authored “Divorce Dilemma: Settle or Go to Trial?” published in Forbes.