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July 03, 2007 | National Law Journal

Fla. high court makes it easier for hurt workers to sue

Floridians who suffered workplace injuries prior to passage of a 2003 statute don't have to prove their employer concealed the job hazard to sue for negligence, a split Florida Supreme Court has ruled. The majority opinion noted that its decision had limited application, due to the 2003 statute that now requires injured employees who want to bring a state-court suit to show an employer's action was "virtually certain to result in injury or death."
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July 18, 2005 | National Law Journal

Training leaders a top priority

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, like many firms that have rapidly grown far beyond their original size in recent years, is looking to cultivate leaders among its ranks to help share management duties and to take the helm for the next generation of law firm workers.
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September 28, 2007 | National Law Journal

Jesse James lawsuit found in a Missouri vault

History buff Jim Muehlberger has a good story to tell about what he did on his summer vacation. Muehlberger, a partner at Kansas City, Mo.'s Shook, Hardy & Bacon, decided to use his research skills and love for writing to do a bit of research on Henry Clay McDougal, who as a young lawyer filed a lawsuit in 1870 against the James brothers � and lived to tell of it.
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January 03, 2005 | National Law Journal

A shortage of regulators

One result of the globalization and growing complexity of the financial services industry has been a worldwide shortage of qualified regulators of financial institutions, just as the supervision and regulation of the industry has become increasingly complex. The skills required to regulate financial institutions operating in dozens of foreign nations and in different lines of business (insurance, securities, derivatives) are vastly different from those of just a decade ago.
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April 27, 2009 | National Law Journal

The new associate mantra: Keep quiet

With law firms unloading scores of attorneys amid the economic downturn, associates are finding that the balance of power has shifted away from them and into the hands of law firm managers. Gone are the days when firms had to pile on the perks to keep associates from jumping ship. With few ships for associates to jump to these days, young attorneys are increasingly reluctant to raise any issue that might put an unwanted target on their backs.
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September 08, 2010 | National Law Journal

Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Christopher Burke

The first lawyer to face the newly constituted Roberts Court in the first case of the new Supreme Court term will be Christopher Burke, a solo debtor's attorney from Las Vegas.
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January 30, 2012 | National Law Journal

Crushing Costs

What data there are — and there aren't many — don't support notion that costs are forcing settlements.
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August 19, 2011 | Law.com

U.S. Steel off the hook under WARN Act because of economic crisis

A Minnesota federal judge has ruled that U.S. Steel Corp. did not violate the federal law requiring advance notice of plant closings because the depth of the recent economic crisis was not foreseeable. Although the company did not comply with the provisions of the law, the judge found that the unforeseeable business circumstances exception to the law applies.
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March 01, 2013 | National Law Journal

Circuit used wrong standard in DOMA ruling, brief argues

Lawyers for the Republican majority in the House of Representatives are disputing on several fronts a ruling by the Second Circuit that the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally discriminates against same-sex married couples. But they argue that the issues in the case can be distilled to a few fundamental legal principles.
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September 29, 2003 | National Law Journal

Florida $145 billion wipeout survives

A Florida appeals court has announced that it will not hear any more arguments about its decision to throw out a record-setting $145 billion verdict won by a group of Florida smokers against some of the nation's largest cigarette companies.
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