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February 10, 2009 | National Law Journal

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has appointed nationally recognized corrections expert Dora Schriro as special adviser on immigration and customs enforcement and detention and removal.

By Marcia Coyle / Staff reporter

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February 11, 2009 | National Law Journal

Lawyers at Bryan Cave and St. Louis University School of Law have petitioned a court to intervene in the first case to address a novel Missouri statute that allows women serving life sentences for murder to submit evidence of domestic violence in order to obtain parole.

By Amanda Bronstad / Staff reporter

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October 26, 2007 | National Law Journal

The 7th Circuit denied a request by former Illinois Governor George Ryan yesterday to have his appeal of a conviction on federal fraud and racketeering charges heard by the full court, letting the guilty verdict stand despite the defendant's argument that the six-month trial was marred by juror misconduct.

By Lynne Marek / Staff Reporter

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May 07, 2007 | National Law Journal

Bingham McCutchen has acquired about 40 lawyers from Santa Monica, Calif.-based Alschuler Grossman.

By Amanda Bronstad / Staff reporter

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December 03, 2007 | National Law Journal

A hearing officer for the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct recommended a public reprimand for state court Judge Ernest B. Murphy for sending letters on court stationary to Boston Herald publisher Patrick J. Purcell demanding settlement of his libel lawsuit against the newspaper.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

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August 19, 2008 | National Law Journal

Heller Ehrman and Katten Muchin Rosenman have both announced creation of practices specialized in "covered bonds," long familiar in Europe but a newcomer to the United States, which federal regulators have recently encouraged to thaw the nation's credit markets.

By Peter Page / Staff reporter

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November 11, 2008 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recently issued its first regulations governing nanoscale materials — microscopic substances that can have different properties from full-size counterparts — and created a new compliance regime for clients and their lawyers.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

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April 10, 2007 | National Law Journal

Reed Smith has hired three corporate lawyers in its two Los Angeles offices. Susan Alker, previously of counsel at O'Melveny & Myers, and Ken Ikari, a former partner at Irell & Manella, join as partners in the Los Angeles office.

By Amanda Bronstad/Staff reporter

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April 20, 2009 | National Law Journal

By Karen Sloan / Staff reporter

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May 05, 2009 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts recently authorized so-called limited assistance representation or unbundled legal representation, which enables litigants to hire lawyers for part of their casework and perform some legal work on their own, across all of the state's trial courts. The court system is touting the program as a low-cost alternative to pro se representation for financially strapped litigants and an effort to reduce the high percentage of pro se caseloads in some courts.

By By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

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