The National Law Journal

August 04, 2008 | National Law Journal

By Lela Love / Special to The National Law Journal

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June 07, 2004 | National Law Journal

Legal pressure is rising to force drug makers to disclose all studies, good or bad, that shed light on the safety of medicines they sell.

By Matt Fleischer-BlackSpecial to The National Law Journal

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June 14, 2004 | National Law Journal

The recent actions by Weil, Gotshal and Manges to drop its representation of the City of New York in its lawsuit against the gun industry call for a reappraisal of the trend in the legal profession toward ever wider definitions of positional conflicts.

By Tanina RostainSpecial to The National Law Journal

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August 14, 2006 | National Law Journal

Patents don�t cause drugs to be expensive as much as the high costs of research, development, regulatory approval and distribution do. However, even these commercialization-related costs are not the real barrier for getting drugs delivered to patients in poverty-stricken regions.

By F. Scott Kieff/Special to The National Law Journal

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September 26, 2005 | National Law Journal

Perhaps equitable class action tolling is a good idea. Perhaps not. But it is surely not justified by the reasoning relied upon by the courts. Courts should not rely on factual assumptions that every cognizant person knows to be untrue.

By Mark HerrmannSpecial to The National Law Journal

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December 15, 2008 | National Law Journal

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a copyright infringement verdict against the great-grandson of artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in a fight over the right to reproduce sculptures created by the French impressionist.

By David Horrigan / Special to the National Law Journal

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December 08, 2008 | National Law Journal

In a legal epilogue to a notorious 2007 shooting spree in which a gunman killed five people in a Salt Lake City shopping mall, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Dec. 2 that the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act of 2004 did not create a right for a nonparty to appeal a criminal sentence. In doing so, the court rejected an attempt by the parents of one of the shooting victims to appeal the sentence given to the man who sold the gun to the shooter, who was 17 years old at the time of the sale.

By David Horrigan / Special to the National Law Journal

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April 17, 2006 | National Law Journal

The high-profile federal indictment of Seymour Lazar (himself an attorney) has yet to focus the attention of our nation's legal community on what appears to be serious misconduct among the plaintiffs' class action bar.

By Lawrence W. SchonbrunSpecial to The National Law Journal

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October 08, 2007 | National Law Journal

A humble lawyer? Isn't that an oxymoron? For many it is. For others, however, it is a powerful key to success in both the legal field and life. Far too often, people equate humility with being weak or poor. But a "humble lawyer" is not synonymous with a weak advocate. Indeed, the two concepts are at polar extremes.

By Michael D. Fielding / Special to The National Law Journal

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September 28, 2006 | National Law Journal

At a time when hundreds of corporations are conducting or considering conducting internal corporate investigations into stock option backdating and other problems, it is appropriate to consider the "do's" and "don'ts" of such investigations.

By Dan Hedges/Special to The National Law Journal

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