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The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for a former PaineWebber in-house attorney who claimed she was fired for complaining to supervisors about allegedly unethical conflicts o
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A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on a terrorism suspect's constitutional claims may help commercial defendants obtain pre-discovery dismissals of claims against them. The Court's May 18 decisio
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The lead lawyer who won a defense verdict for Merck & Co. last week after a contentious eight-week trial in Atlantic City, N.J., in the second Vioxx case said her trial team's success lay
By John Caher | April 18, 2006
Independent Internet service providers struggling against the twin behemoths of major telecommunications companies and state regulatory structures have won a key battle in New York, where the Tax A
By Georgene M. Vairo | June 29, 2007
One might think that a tobacco company would steer as clear as possible from the federal government. The U.S. Justice Department brought a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act action
By Andrew Longstreth | September 13, 2007
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By Alison Frankel | December 12, 2006
The power of the plaintiffs bar is on the wane in this country, and will be for a long time to come. You won't hear many tort reformers admit it. They've done too good a job demonizing trial
By Ben Hallman | February 15, 2007
It is a warm fall morning in Birmingham, and Donald Watkins is in town for a meeting. The hotel-like condition of his office in the back of a bank he founded suggests that this a rare occurrenc
By Susan Beck | December 6, 2006
Larry Sonsini was about to have a bad day. It was the morning of Sept. 28, and Sonsini was preparing to testify before Congress about his role in the Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom spying scanda
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One day late last March, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie summoned a pair of young prosecutors to his seventh-floor office in downtown Newark. After weeks of brooding and two long meet
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