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National Law Journal

E-Discovery Zero Hour Approaches

By Leigh Jones | August 23, 2006

Although the start date of the new electronic-discovery procedural rules is still three months away, lawyers who haven't sat down with clients to devise a plan may be losing a race against time./p

New Jersey Law Journal

Good Editing Is Important, But Solid Preparation Is Key

By Kenneth F. Oettle | January 11, 2006

The editing process is a word puzzle, the pieces of which are denotations and connotations, tones, rhythms and word order. Good editors shuffle and shape these puzzle pieces until they mesh seamles

Texas Lawyer

Special Forces Training Guides GC of Texas Military Forces

By Kristine Hughes | May 21, 2007

Doug O'Connell isn't anyone's image of a typical lawyer. How many of those can be described by their boss as "a finely tuned killing machine" or be said to "rather eat snakes than draft wills "? /

National Law Journal

Nonlawyer Experts Help Small Firm Contain Rates

By Sheri Qualters | December 20, 2007

A boutique business law firm for life sciences companies is luring clients with a lower-rate structure that relies on nonlawyer contract experts for template contract work. Waltham, Mass.-ba

Reuters CEO Glocer on the Rise

By Phineas Lambert | May 17, 2007

Tom Glocer logged nine years as an M&A associate at New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell before he signed on as deputy general counsel of Reuters America in 1993. Then his career kicked

Outdated Court Rulings Stymie Mergers Regulators, Says Former FTC Official

By Cecile Kohrs Lindell | September 19, 2006

Courts are behind the times when it comes to reviewing merger cases, making it harder for regulators to block the ones that may harm competition, according to an antitrust lawyer who recently left

The Corporate Counselor

'Palmer v. Marsh': New Considerations for Non-compete Agreements

By Keith R. Styles | August 30, 2005

The recent 11th Circuit ruling in Palmer & Cay Inc., et. al. v. Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., No. 03-16248 (11th Cir. April 1, 2005) means corporate counsel should reconsider t

National Law Journal

A Counselor's Counselor

By Richard Acello | May 21, 2009

Name and title: Mark F. Nowak, partner and general counsel, Thorp Reed & Armstrong. strong

D&o Advisor

Life Without SOX -- It's Just Better

By Susan Greco | January 12, 2005

David Hochberg, a current vice president and former director of Lillian Vernon Corporation in Rye, N.Y., doesn't give much thought to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 these days. Worries about r

Texas Lawyer

Texas GC Pay Declines for Third Year in a Row

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | October 13, 2005

While still desirable, big-company general counsel jobs in Texas may not be as lucrative as they used to be. For the third year in a row, the average pay package for general counsel at