Ross Todd

September 08, 2009 | Law.com

While the U.S. economy shed another 216,000 jobs in August, the legal sector lost only 100 jobs during the month, according to figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The numbers are seasonally adjusted. When not seasonally adjusted, the legal sector lost 11,000 jobs -- presumably because of the flow of summer associates back to law schools. Most striking to the The Am Law Daily: the increasingly fuzzy numbers law firms have been offering when asked about job cuts.

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July 23, 2010 | The American Lawyer

At the heart of the case was the recanted testimony of a jailhouse informant, whose statements had been used by prosecutors to convict Darryl Whitley.

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June 30, 2011 | The American Lawyer

We're not surprised to see Quinn lawyers showing up at Samsung's side, given the close business relationship between Samsung and Quinn client Google.

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September 22, 2009 | The American Lawyer

A judge for the International Trade Commission issued a preliminary ruling Monday finding that patent claims against Spansion, Nanya Technology, and other semiconductor companies were invalid.

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June 27, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Before closing up shop for the summer, the Supreme Court handed Jones Day's Meir Feder a big win Monday when the Justices ruled unanimously that three foreign Goodyear subsidiaries couldn't be sued in North Carolina state court over a tragic accident stemming from an alleged tire defect.

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August 12, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Seems like we hardly ever hear about insurance companies losing Hurricane Katrina appellate rulings. But United Fire sure did. In a terse ruling Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit rejected the insurer's appeal of a hefty jury award to a New Orleans grocer.

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July 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Kirkland lawyers defending Honeywell in a False Claims Act case over defective body armor mentioned the the botched Ted Stevens prosecution three times in a motion claiming that the government had "permanently tainted" the case by withholding exculpatory information.

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April 02, 2010 | The American Lawyer

It's not clear how much Pfizer agreed to pay the family of suicide victim Hartley Shearer after two days of trial--but any payment from Pfizer is significant.

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October 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Kara and Robert Brooks dropped successful careers as litigators to take a chance at owning and running a restaurant.

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May 06, 2009 | The American Lawyer

It was big news when the RIAA announced last year that its campaign of suing people for illegal music downloading was over. Now a longtime anti-RIAA lawyer says on his blog that the industry is filing new suits after all--but the RIAA says he's wrong. Turns out that it all depends on the definition of "new."

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