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February 13, 2003 | Law.com

A Daring Venture

Conventional wisdom would say this is the worst time for Reed Smith Crosby Heafey to roll out a venture capital and technology group. But to Gregory Beattie, an Oakland partner who heads Reed Smith's recently formed 20-attorney group, it's all a matter of perspective. The firm is attempting to take advantage of the glut of available talent caused by recent layoffs and expand despite the economic lull.
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January 23, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Microsoft risks straining PC partners with Dell investment

Microsoft is planning to make a strategic investment in Dell, which may risk more problems with partners after releasing its own tablet computer last year and straining ties with computer makers.
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January 27, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Good health at any cost

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September 29, 2000 | Law.com

Take the Money and Run

Associates are doing a cost-benefit analysis of their own careers -- and large law firms are losing. As firms continue to struggle with associate attrition, what associates say carries weight. Raises may not be the turnkey solution, but firms that doled out less than competitive raises bungled big-time. Those few midlevels in The American Lawyer's "Midlevel Associate Survey" who didn't benefit from the nationwide salary boon did not take it lightly.
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August 20, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

The Usual Suspects

This year's Who Represents America's Biggest Companies survey used state and federal records to see which law firms corporations were using when it came to commercial law and contracts litigation, corporate transactions, employment and labor litigation, and IP litigation and patent prosecution. Familiar faces dominate our listings. Kirkland & Ellis tops the commercial law and contracts litigation chart, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom led the corporate transaction pack again this year.
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May 08, 2002 | New York Law Journal

Employment Law Issues

T he events of Sept. 11 caused companies to reevaluate their programs for crisis management in the United States. That crisis`s resultant dislocation of workers (and worse) were extreme, but other kind of crises with substantial negative results also confront employers. In the employment arena, these may include class action discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuits, initiated by groups of employees, former employees, applicants for employment, or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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April 24, 2001 | Law.com

Big Tobacco Can't Use 'Pass-On' Defense in RICO Suit

Tobacco companies accused of lying about the dangers of smoking by Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield of New York cannot claim as a defense that increased health costs have been passed on to consumers, a federal judge ruled. The judge told lawyers that a "pass-on" defense -- minimizing a plaintiff's damages by showing that a third party absorbed the increased cost -- is not available in a fraud action brought under RICO.
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October 01, 2010 | The American Lawyer

New Business

New work landed by major firms, including high-profile deals, �lawsuits, and other matters announced in August 2010.
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July 13, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Newsbriefs

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June 02, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

With End of Bush Era, Civil Rights Veterans Return to the Fold

Some of the lawyers who left the U.S. Depart�ment of Justice's Civil Rights Division during George W. Bush's presidency and complained they were the target of ideological warfare have returned during the past two years as part of a wave of hiring.
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