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September 27, 2010 | National Law Journal

The D.C. 25

Washington's highest-grossing firms struggle to improve revenues as demand for legal work thins out nationwide.
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August 16, 2012 | National Law Journal

How a 'color-blind' Supreme Court ignores the realities of race

In the struggle to create a truly integrated society, the Supreme Court has not always met the bar it set for itself.
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February 13, 2012 | National Law Journal

Soft shell law

Profile of Melissa Sellers, general counsel for Phillips Foods Inc.
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August 02, 2004 | National Law Journal

Protecting novel recording technology

Profile: Matthew Zinn, vice president, general counsel and chief privacy officer, TiVo Inc.
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November 20, 2008 | National Law Journal

A Detroit law firm CEO talks about surviving the Big Three crisis, and what may happen without a bailout

In his 33 years of working at a major Detroit law firm, Michael Hartmann has seen the U.S. auto industry through some tough times. Not this tough, however. Hartmann, chief executive officer of Detroit's Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, says his 156-year-old law firm is dealing with a crisis never before witnessed by the Motor City. We asked him about this unprecedented crisis, its impact on his law firm and what an auto industry collapse could mean for the future.
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January 13, 2010 | National Law Journal

Circuit panel grills both sides in conduit campaign contributions case

A federal appeals panel hearing oral arguments in the government's criminal case against attorney Pierce O'Donnell drilled lawyers on both sides about "muddy" points they made about the intent and scope of a federal law governing campaign contributions.
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December 28, 2012 | Law.com

Boston firm wins pair of whistleblower cases on same day

Boston plaintiffs' litigation shop Ellis & Rapacki capped off the year with two different False Claims Act wins for whistleblower clients.
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December 08, 2008 | National Law Journal

Remember the memo

Former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder is Barack Obama's choice for U.S. attorney general. There has been much focus on Holder's apparent complicity with Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich and on the possibility of Holder's being our first black AG. Both threaten to divert the Senate Judiciary Committee from an area far more important in determining Holder's fitness. The Holder Memo, issued in 1999, has likely had more impact on respect for constitutional values than anything else he did while at DOJ.
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August 18, 2006 | National Law Journal

Federal judge rules tobacco firms violated racketeering laws

A federal judge ruled Thursday that the nation's top cigarette makers violated racketeering laws, deceiving the public for years about the health hazards of smoking, but said she couldn't order them to pay the billions of dollars the government had sought.
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June 09, 2003 | National Law Journal

Voir Dire

As publicity stunts go, May mailings addressed from the Florida College of Emergency Physicians to state lawmakers rank with the hand grenades that a Los Angeles litigation firm once mailed to potential clients.
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