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IN RE COUDERT BROS.

No. 11 Civ. 4949 (PAE).

487 B.R. 375 (2013)

In re COUDERT BROTHERS, Debtor. Development Specialists, Inc., in its capacity as Plan Administrator for Coudert Brothers LLP, Plaintiff, v. Peabody Energy Corporation et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

January 30, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Jeffrey Adler , McCarter & English, LLP (NJ), New York, NJ, Daniel A. Pollack , Joseph R. Scholz , McCarter & English, LLP (NYC), New York, NY, Eric Watt Wiechmann , McCarter & English, LLP, Hartford, CT, for Plaintiff.

Marc Bernard Dorfman , Foley & Lardner, Washington, DC, Robert Allen Scher , Foley & Lardner, LLP, New York, NY for Defendants.

OPINION & ORDER

PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge.

This case involves a dispute over lobbying work done, first by the law firm of Coudert Brothers LLP ("Coudert"), and later, after Coudert's bankruptcy, by the law firm of Baker & McKenzie LLP ("Baker"). This lobbying, done on behalf of various American coal companies, ultimately helped secure an act of Congress that resulted in substantial tax refunds for these companies. In this lawsuit...

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