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November 08, 2004 | National Law Journal

Waging the P.R. battle

O'Reilly may run the world's most famous no-spin zone, but certainly used PR to his advantage when sexual harassment charges were flung his way recently, shooting back with a pre-emptive lawsuit for "attempted extortion" against the young woman — and her lawyers — who had approached O'Reilly and Fox for settlement talks. These sorts of tactics sets back the progress of civil rights plaintiffs considerably.
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December 07, 2009 | National Law Journal

Letters to the Editor

Readers respond to Bruce Lehman's opinion piece about patent-case venue shopping in this week's letters.
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August 30, 2007 | National Law Journal

Midlevel Associates: The Paycheck Report

By collecting salary and bonus information from Am Law 200 associates for its annual associate satisfaction survey, The American Lawyer has calculated median salaries and bonuses for third-, fourth- and fifth-years in major markets. Three years as a big-firm lawyer, and it's a pretty sure bet that the annual paycheck is going to be at least $200,000, the report concludes. Find out which firms in the survey pay the most and which hand out the heftiest checks come bonus time.
5 minute read
June 15, 2006 | National Law Journal

Scrushy's attorneys to present closing arguments

Lawyers for former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy will argue to a federal court jury Thursday that their client did not arrange for $500,000 in contributions to former Gov. Don Siegelman's campaign for a statewide lottery as a payoff for an appointment to an influential hospital regulatory board.
5 minute read
March 08, 2011 | National Law Journal

Law school transparency: cutting-edge issue or passing fad?

In the beginning of the economic crisis, large firms took their licks due to layoffs and bloated first-year salaries. Now it appears to be the law schools' turn to suffer the fallout from the economic crisis.
6 minute read
May 26, 2003 | National Law Journal

Eulogy for a lost clause

April proved to be the cruelest of constitutional moments. The U.S. Supreme Court issued two inconsistent decisions on state court liability rulings. To compound the confusion, both cases probably reached the right result-but on preposterous grounds.
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September 26, 2007 | National Law Journal

New head of Holland's Miami office represents a first

Holland & Knight has named a black woman as executive partner of its 107-lawyer Miami office, the firm's fifth-largest office. In her new role, labor and employment partner Kelly-Ann Cartwright will become the only black woman managing partner at a large firm in South Florida. Black bar leaders cheered the appointment, but said it was long overdue. Said one, "The fact that this is the first African-American woman to achieve this at a major law firm is very telling of where we are."
4 minute read
October 27, 2008 | The American Lawyer

With '01 in mind, law firms alter layoff strategy

Clifford Chance's latest round of attorney layoffs was supposed to unfold according to a carefully choreographed sequence of events. Law firm leaders spent a month developing a plan for how to tell 20 associates that they were being let go, and how to break the bad news to the rest of the firm and the media. But information is difficult to control in the Internet age, and rumors of the layoffs hit the popular legal gossip blog Above the Law before the firm was prepared to release a statement.
5 minute read
July 10, 2006 | National Law Journal

VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

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August 21, 2006 | National Law Journal

Damage fallout over nuclear suits

The federal government may soon face the first wave of damages awards in its long-running, multibillion-dollar breach-of-contract litigation with the nation's utilities over disposal of spent nuclear fuel.
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