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August 08, 2006 | National Law Journal

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, the world's second-largest firm, is expected to announce in September that it is taking a new, shorter name to strengthen its international brand after a wave of mergers in the past seven years brought together practices in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

By Lynne Marek/Staff reporter

2 minute read

October 31, 2005 | National Law Journal

Law school ranking season is here, and universities across the country are engaged in a glossy marketing blitz to educate evaluators who can help boost or bust their reputations.

By Leigh JonesStaff reporter

4 minute read

November 10, 2008 | National Law Journal

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has struck down as unconstitutional the 5% racial set-aside in defense contracts for small businesses owned by "socially and economically" disadvantaged individuals. The panel held that Section 1207 of the National Defense Authorization Act violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment right to due process.

By Marcia Coyle / Staff reporter

3 minute read

October 02, 2006 | National Law Journal

Driven mostly by outside legal services costs, corporate law department spending increased between 7% and 7.9% over the past year, according to recent surveys by legal consultants Altman Weil Inc. and Hildebrandt International.

By Sheri Qualters/Staff reporter

2 minute read

June 07, 2007 | National Law Journal

Douglas H. Green and William R. Weissman joined the Washington office of Venable as partners in the Environmental Practice Group. They both formerly worked in the Washington office of DLA Piper. Venable now has 20 lawyers in its environmental practice.

By Sandhya Bathija/Staff reporter

1 minute read

March 13, 2008 | National Law Journal

An eight-lawyer group from the government contracts and litigation practice of Epstein Becker & Green — led by partners Kenneth B. Weckstein and Daniel B. Abrahams — has moved to the Washington office of Boston's Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels.

By Marcia Coyle / Staff reporter

2 minute read

August 08, 2008 | National Law Journal

A New Jersey appellate court handed a victory to homeowners in a long-running eminent domain dispute with the city of Long Branch, finding no actual blight in an area set for condemnation and redevelopment. The case by a group of long-term residents of the coastal strip drew the attention of land use specialists and landowner rights advocates from around the country in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 decision allowing cities to use eminent domain to take "blighted" land from one private owner to give to another for development.

By Pamela A. MacLean / Staff reporter

2 minute read

April 08, 2008 | National Law Journal

Rates for prime commercial space used by law firms in Boston climbed sharply last year, with square foot rates hitting $65 to $75 in the second half of 2007 compared with $40 to $65 during the first half, according to a recent report from real estate company Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

3 minute read

March 14, 2005 | National Law Journal

The estate of one of the nation's top estate tax lawyers and that lawyer's business partner in an alleged tax fraud last week won in the U.S. Supreme Court a long-running battle to open secret reports of special trial judges in the U.S. Tax Court.

By Marcia CoyleStaff reporter

3 minute read

April 27, 2009 | National Law Journal

A Los Angeles judge has thrown out two class actions against Dole Food Co. after finding that the plaintiffs and their lawyers committed fraud in bringing the claims, which alleged that dozens of banana workers in Nicaragua were rendered sterile after being exposed to a certain pesticide called DBCP, according to a lawyer representing Dole.

By Amanda Bronstad / Staff reporter

3 minute read