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October 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney in Chicago, special prosecutor who convicted vice presidential aide Lewis Libby, and oft-cited bachelor, is officially off the market. He is engaged to be married to Chicago teacher Jennifer Letzkus, a spokesman confirmed.

By Lynne Marek / Staff reporter

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April 25, 2008 | National Law Journal

Proskauer Rose has added three practice leaders from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner as partners to its technology practice group in New York.

By Leigh Jones / Staff reporter

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January 15, 2008 | National Law Journal

Florida law firm GrayRobinson has opened a new office in downtown Miami, the firm's 10th in the state. The office opening marks the firm's latest move to broaden its statewide profile, said president and managing director Byrd F. "Biff" Marshall.

By Julie Kay / Staff reporter

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June 03, 2008 | National Law Journal

Fulbright & Jaworski has added Theodore Shaw, past president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, as counsel in its New York office. He will focus on labor and employment issues and civil rights matters.

By Leigh Jones / Staff Reporter

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August 01, 2008 | National Law Journal

Congress passed a bill this week authorizing a new Justice Department program to repay student loans for law school graduates who become state or local prosecutors or federal, state or local public defenders and agree to serve in those posts for a minimum of three years. Attorneys eligible to receive the loan repayment benefits under the new program will only be allowed $10,000 in benefits in a given year and $60,000 overall.

By Lynne Marek / Staff reporter

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October 21, 2008 | National Law Journal

After nearly two decades under the leadership of Nadine Strossen, the American Civil Liberties Union has a new president. The organization's board of directors last week selected Brooklyn Law School professor and constitutional law scholar Susan Herman as the new president. We asked Herman about her new job.

By Karen Sloan / Staff reporter

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May 16, 2007 | National Law Journal

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has added two partners, Rudy Kim and Yar Chaikovsky, to its new Menlo Park, Calif., office in Silicon Valley.

By Amanda Bronstad/Staff reporter

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October 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

Tax specialist Gregory Broome moved to Wilson, Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to support the firm's clean technology and renewable energy finance project practice.

By Pamela A. Maclean / Staff reporter

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January 08, 2008 | National Law Journal

The Chief Judge of the U.S. District of Massachusetts recently sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey criticizing the U.S. Department of Justice's discipline of a Massachusetts' prosecutor and its "failure to be candid and consistent with the court" in Massachusetts.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

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July 23, 2008 | National Law Journal

Cindy A. Brazell and Douglas S. Gosden, formerly partners in the Atlanta office of Kilpatrick Stockton, have joined Jones Day's Atlanta office as partners representing banks and other financial institutions and borrowers in leveraged finance transactions.

By Marcia Coyle / Staff reporter

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