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December 08, 2011 | National Law Journal

N.C. Central dean returning to private practice

Raymond Pierce, the dean of North Carolina Central University School of Law, will step down at the end of the academic year to become a partner in the Raleigh office of law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough.
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December 13, 2004 | National Law Journal

California may raise the bar on ethics

California bar leaders, worried that law students aren't being drilled sufficiently on legal ethics, are leaning toward the toughening of the state's requirements for passing a nationally administered test on the subject.
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June 13, 2007 | National Law Journal

Michelle Simon appointed Pace Law interim dean

Pace Law School of White Plains, N.Y., appointed Michelle S. Simon to be its interim dean, succeeding Stephen J. Friedman, who became Pace's president on June 4.
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December 14, 2006 | National Law Journal

Scalia, Breyer debate unanimity on the high court

Last week it became clear that the Court is not even unanimous on whether unanimity is realistic or worth striving for.
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February 13, 2009 | National Law Journal

Skadden blog's 'hot associate' contest is put on ice

Who's the hottest young woman lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom? Last week that question -- posted on a blog written by two anonymous employees -- sent the New York firm into a bit of a tizzy, with its employment adviser chastising the blog in an e-mail sent to all Skadden lawyers in the United States. Of counsel Henry Baer called the competition "inappropriate" and inconsistent with Skadden's "values and standards of behavior."
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May 01, 2008 | National Law Journal

Key partner exits Winston & Strawn for newly merged Locke Lord

David Wirt is exiting Winston & Strawn in Chicago and jumping to Locke Lord Bissell & Brook to lead the smaller firm's bankruptcy practice group. Wirt said he saw the job at the newly merged Locke Lord as an opportunity to step into a leadership role at a firm that has a strong reputation in the practice area.
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August 19, 2008 | National Law Journal

Kirkland & Ellis sued for alleged malpractice over patent case

In an Illinois state court filing last week, Kirkland & Ellis is being sued for legal malpractice by a former client that blames the law firm for the loss of a patent case that cost the company $18.75 million. The lawsuit alleges that the law firm failed to investigate and discover prior art.
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July 07, 2009 | National Law Journal

Illinois judge dismisses two 19-year-old murder convictions

A Cook County, Ill., judge granted dismissals of 19-year-old murder convictions of two men on Tuesday after prosecutors requested the dismissals in court.
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October 28, 2009 | National Law Journal

PTO announces ombudsman pilot program

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is giving the intellectual property bar another valentine with a new "Patents Ombudsman Pilot Program" that offers patent applicants and attorneys a channel for inquiring about stalled patents.
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February 27, 2009 | National Law Journal

Shrinkage at Day Casebeer shows IP litigators no longer immune to recession

Even a tiny law firm whose bread is buttered by relatively recession-proof patent litigation has had to lay off lawyers. As of last summer, Day Casebeer, the Silicon Valley firm of high-end IP boutique fame and Qualcomm discovery fiasco infamy, was 38 lawyers strong. Today, the firm has 27 lawyers. So what's the deal with cutting lawyers when most every layoff has been blamed on a slowdown in corporate work? The guy who makes the sun rise at the firm explained that there were two causes for the cuts.
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