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February 07, 2008 | National Law Journal

Vincent C. Brockman, Lawn care giant Scotts Miracle-Gro Company's former senior vice president, this week was named general counsel, executive vice president and corporate secretary.

By Tresa Baldas / Staff reporter

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September 12, 2007 | National Law Journal

Washington's Covington & Burling has added Ellen R. Eliasoph as senior of counsel to its headquarters, where she will help U.S. and European clients navigate the Asian regulatory market.

By Vesna Jaksic / Staff reporter

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July 17, 2007 | National Law Journal

Mario Salgado, an independent consultant and former vice president of Vanguard Public Foundation in San Francisco, will become the new executive director of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles on Sept. 17.

By Amanda Bronstad / Staff reporter

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August 29, 2008 | National Law Journal

Morrison & Foerster has added Stephen S. Birkett as a partner in its corporate group in Hong Kong. Birkett was most recently a senior director of corporate finance at the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong. He joins a team of 220 capital markets lawyers in 17 worldwide offices.

By Vesna Jaksic / Staff reporter

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December 10, 2008 | National Law Journal

Three-quarters of corporate legal departments are facing an average budget cut of 11.5% next year, according to a new Altman Weil Inc. survey. Bills from outside counsel top general counsel's list of worries. Nearly 81% of survey respondents cited both "outside counsel costs" and the "unpredictable nature of legal spending" as top concerns about their company's legal spending over the next year.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

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March 19, 2008 | National Law Journal

Fulbright & Jaworski has named David Parker and James Repass to co-head the firm's global intellectual property practice. They will lead a team of nearly 150 lawyers providing guidance to clients worldwide.

By Vesna Jaksic / Staff reporter

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January 15, 2009 | National Law Journal

Global mergers and acquisitions in the fourth quarter of 2008 hit a five-year low, and the deals in Asia-Pacific last year overtook North America for the first time, according to a new report.

By Vesna Jaksic / Staff reporter

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May 22, 2008 | National Law Journal

Martha Fay Africa is returning to legal search firm giant, Major, Lindsey & Africa, as a managing director in the in-house practice group in San Francisco. Africa founded the firm in 1982 and spent 24 years recruiting lawyers for general counsel posts from organizations as diverse as The Nature Conservancy, Texas Pacific Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford Research Institute.

By Pamela A. MacLean / Staff reporter

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July 08, 2008 | National Law Journal

An attorney for Shirley A. Cunningham Jr., one of three lawyers who were on trial in Kentucky on criminal charges that they allegedly bilked clients out of $65 million received in a fen-phen class action settlement, said his client's case may have ended in a hung jury because of pre-trial publicity. Stephen Dobson, Cunningham's lawyer in the trial that ended in a mistrial last week, said he'll try to improve his client's defense so as to win over all jurors in any retrial. The jury foreman for the trial told local newspapers that two of 12 jurors held out against an acquittal of Cunningham and another defendant.

By Lynne Marek / Staff reporter

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April 24, 2006 | National Law Journal

Senate Republican leaders hope to introduce two new versions of medical malpractice liability legislation next week for floor action the following week. But chances of final approval remain weak, agree groups on both sides of the controversial issue.

By Marcia Coyle/Staff reporter

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