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June 09, 2008 | National Law Journal

Fewer summer associates spread their wings at big Texas firms

Russell Falconer, a law student spending six weeks in the Dallas office of Vinson & Elkins, has a mission: Get a job offer for the fall of 2009. Falconer grew up in Dallas and hopes to launch his legal career in his hometown after he graduates from the University of Texas School of Law next May. Falconer has one of the 948 summer associate positions available at 24 of Texas' 25 largest firms. That number of positions is down 8.9 percent from the 1,040 slots available to students during the summer of 2007.
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October 27, 2003 | National Law Journal

Phone records lead to victory

For 40 years pharmaceutical giant Wyeth closely guarded the secret process it uses to create a drug called Premarin. So when an upstart Minnesota company named Natural Biologics Inc. began producing the key ingredients of Premarin in 1997, Wyeth thought its trade secret had been stolen.
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November 14, 2011 | National Law Journal

In-house use of matter-management software

A large number of U.S. law departments have licensed the software, but smaller departments mostly have not.
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May 10, 2010 | National Law Journal

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Ineffective Assistance Claims, Repugnant Verdict Found Procedurally Barred
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October 03, 2005 | National Law Journal

David A. Savner, General Dynamics

Profile: David A. Savner, senior vice president and general counsel, secretary to the corporation and board of directors, General Dynamics.
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March 01, 2010 | National Law Journal

Don't ask, don't tell, don't push it

Given the administration's policy inclination, why does the government persist in defending Don't Ask, Don't Tell?
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January 17, 2008 | National Law Journal

Large firms pay many Texas associates bigger bonuses

Many associates are richer due to bonus money. Large firms in Texas paid bonuses roughly equivalent to what they paid associates for 2006 work. The generous bonuses are in addition to salary raises that many big firms gave associates in 2007 as the Texas base salary for first-year associates increased to $160,000. "We felt like some of the associates ... were working excess hours, and we felt we should provide a special bonus to them," says Stanley Mayo, managing partner of Patton Boggs' Dallas office.
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June 01, 2009 | National Law Journal

What of impartiality?

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's pledge to never forget the "real-world consequences" of her decisions is not unobjectionable on its face. Unfortunately, however, empathy for disaffected groups emerges as an empty, unhelpful barometer in reaching sound legal outcomes, an emptiness reflected in many of Sotomayor's decisions.
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March 18, 2009 | National Law Journal

A compensation attorney talks about the AIG furor, and why punitive action by Congress could backfire

The chief executive officer of AIG is expected to testify today about why the insurance firm, which has accepted more than $170 billion in bailout funds, paid $165 million in bonuses to its employees during the past week. Yesterday several Democratic senators proposed legislation that would tax the bonuses as a means of reimbursing taxpayers. White & Case's Andrew Oringer said the legislative proposals could run afoul of constitutional issues and that other financial firms receiving bailout funds are taking notice of AIG's predicament.
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March 22, 2010 | National Law Journal

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