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On the defence side, the U.S. lawyer exposed a divide between his firm, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and Torys LLP, Hollinger's Toronto legal adviser, over whether $80 million in fees paid to the executives should've been made public as part of CanWest's $3.5-billion purchase of Hollinger's Canadian newspapers.
On Tuesday, the defence pounced on the conflicting legal opinions as [Bud Rogers] repeated that he was "shocked" after learning Torys said Cravath agreed the publisher didn't have to disclose the CanWest payments -- a claim Rogers described as "completely false.""I was quite troubled by the whole sequence," Rogers said Tuesday. "This was not the kind of letter that I write every day of the week. But I thought it was important to set the record straight."See the full content of this document
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Lawyer Pleases Sides at Black Trial
By Peter Brieger
CHICAGO -- Bud Rogers smiled and waved at Mark Kipnis, Jack Boultbee and Peter Atkinson as he left a downto...See the full content of this document
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