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September 08, 2011 | National Law Journal

In first public meeting of 'super committee,' co-chairwoman warns against special interests

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Thursday urged congressional "super committee" members gathered on Capitol Hill for the panel's first public meeting not to let special interests corner them as they work to reduce the federal deficit.
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May 28, 2013 | Law.com

Comcast Didn't Discriminate Against Tennis Channel

A federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday sided with Comcast in a dispute with federal regulators over the cable company's refusal to more widely distribute The Tennis Channel.
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May 04, 2009 | National Law Journal

Layoffs Create Deep Pool of In-House Candidates

A surprising thing is happening among companies spurred by the financial crisis to take a sharp pencil to operating budgets and scrutinize spending. As business contracts and companies trim outside legal costs, seek fee reductions and alternative billing arrangements, and pare rosters of outside firms altogether, epic layoffs within large law firms have been the obvious result.
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October 20, 2010 | National Law Journal

Lawyer finds a niche in bird-dogging litigation for hedge funds

As corporate clients continue shifting legal work in-house, lawyers like intellectual property attorney David Sunshine at Philadelphia-based Cozen O'Connor are emphasizing unusual niches. Sunshine said that about a quarter of his practice involves tracking intellectual property cases for hedge fund clients.
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April 29, 2013 | National Law Journal

Circuit Favors Narrow Language in Funeral-Protest Ban

A federal appeals court favored the specific over the ill-defined in ruling that Missouri's blanket ban on protests during funerals violates the First Amendment's free-speech clause because it "creates a buffer zone of an indeterminate size."
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June 26, 2009 | National Law Journal

Rod Beckstrom named new president of ICANN

Global Internet governing body the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers has tapped Rod Beckstrom, a former top-ranking U.S. government cybersecurity official, as its new president and chief executive officer as it grapples with rising incidences of cybersquatting and the pending expansion of Internet addresses.
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January 29, 2007 | National Law Journal

Subconscious cues play a role in trial outcomes

The way a question is asked can make all the difference. Yet courtroom strategies often remain founded on the assumption that juror decisions are always based on detailed, rational analysis. Behavioral-decision research suggests otherwise.
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May 17, 2010 | National Law Journal

Kagan looks to lawyer who aided Sotomayor

Fresh off a promotion to deputy White House counsel, Susan Davies helped Kagan navigate Capitol Hill last week — giving advice and drawing on nearly a decade of congressional contacts.
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September 08, 2008 | National Law Journal

Breach cases could cost U.S. billions

The federal government recently suffered two potentially multibillion-dollar blows in long-running breach-of-contract litigation involving oil leases and spent nuclear fuel, and it now faces a third area of possible liability for broken Medicare contracts. The nuclear industry estimates that the government ultimately will face close to $50 billion in damages, but the government contends it is closer to $7 billion. Whichever dollar figure emerges, "this is a very, very big problem for the Department of Energy," said Greenberg Traurig's Jerry Stouck, a veteran government contracts litigator.
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January 19, 2009 | National Law Journal

Remoteness & Causation

An alleged product defect injures a buyer. The seller is sued. Who is the plaintiff? A decade ago, the answer was the buyer. Today, it could be a health benefit plan that paid for the buyer to purchase the product or even a municipality that arrested the buyer who used the product illegally. Plaintiffs often have little relationship to the product. But recent cases suggest that the further a plaintiff is removed from the underlying sale, the less likely it is that the court will find proximate causation.
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