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January 30, 2008 | National Law Journal

Schering-Plough, already hit with a swarm of consumer fraud suits along with Merck, co-producer of the anti-cholesterol drug Vytorin, faces a class action suit by shareholders.

By Peter Page / Staff reporter

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December 07, 2007 | National Law Journal

New York's Dewey & LeBoeuf has expanded its Frankfurt office by adding Bela Jansen, a qualified lawyer and tax advisor. Jansen's arrival brings the tax practice in Frankfurt to 16 lawyers and tax advisors, including five partners.

By Vesna Jaksic / Staff reporter

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December 22, 2008 | National Law Journal

U.S. antitrust lawyers are helping global companies comply with strict European Union antitrust scrutiny in the wake of the European Commission's first published enforcement guidance defining what it means for a dominant company to harm competition by abusing its market position. The diverging agendas of enforcement agencies create additional antitrust minefields for lawyers to avoid as they evaluate corporate policies and market actions.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

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July 24, 2006 | National Law Journal

The new chief judge for the Northern District of Illinois may seek more judgeships to reduce the district's reliance on senior judges.

By Lynne Marek/Staff reporter

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September 09, 2008 | National Law Journal

Dallas-based Baron & Budd has expanded its qui tam/false claims act practice area with the addition of former chief of the Texas attorney general's charitable trusts section, Jan Soifer. Soifer, who was most recently partner at the now-closed whistleblower boutique law firm Lawrence & Soifer, joins as special counsel in Austin.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

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May 15, 2008 | National Law Journal

The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has affirmed $30,000 in sanctions against Jones Day for bringing a baseless counterclaim in a contract dispute in Wisconsin. Calling the sanctions modest, the appeals court wrote, "But for this baseless counterclaim the suit could have been resolved without a trial."

By Leigh Jones / Staff reporter

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June 27, 2008 | National Law Journal

The Massachusetts Bar Association asked the state's Supreme Judicial Court to institute a two-year pilot program that allows post-trial contact between lawyers and jurors involved in civil cases. Under the proposed rule, lawyers could communicate with a juror or prospective juror after the jury is discharged unless a court order restricts such contact or the juror asks the lawyer not to make further contact.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff Reporter

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November 03, 2008 | National Law Journal

A legal controversy over a Freedom of Information Act request in Michigan is fueling that question of whether there is such as thing as FOIA abuse. Two FOIA requests led to the release of 12,000 e-mail addresses of parents in the Bloomfield Hills School District, an area near Detroit, which wound up in the hands of two school board candidates who used them for campaign purposes.

By Tresa Baldas / Staff reporter

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January 07, 2009 | National Law Journal

Clifford Chance has tapped the Federal Trade Commission's general counsel to head the firm's U.S. antitrust group. William Blumenthal will join the law firm as a partner in both the mergers and acquisitions practice and the litigation and dispute resolution practice.

By Karen Sloan / Staff reporter

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July 25, 2005 | National Law Journal

As Sandra Day O'Connor prepares to step down as the first female high court justice, she has two regrets: the growing strain between the judiciary and Congress, and the fact that she is unlikely to be replaced by another woman.

By Pamela A. MacLeanStaff Reporter

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