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September 06, 2000 |

Five-Ring Legal Circus

The thrill of victory. The agony of defeat. The legal nuances of blood and urine tests. That's what will be on the mind of Colorado Springs lawyer Richard Young when he attends the Olympics in Sydney. Young is one of 12 arbitrators selected from around the world to resolve Olympic disputes, including doping controversies. And with the International Olympic Committee's Ok to use blood tests this year, Young may be pretty busy.
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June 06, 2005 |

Inadmissible

Short takes on lawyers, firms and judges.
5 minute read
July 23, 2007 |

Record Companies Ordered to Pay Download Defendant's Legal Fees

Two Oklahoma City attorneys are the first lawyers to win a federal court order forcing record companies to pay legal fees in a case brought against a woman and her daughter for infringing on copyrights while downloading music on the Internet. Capitol Records Inc., UMG Recordings and other music companies who sued the mother and daughter dismissed the suit after it was shown that the mother didn't own a computer. The attorneys won $68,685 in fees, although they had sought $114,363 for their work.
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September 03, 2002 |

The Law Firm Targets

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June 21, 2007 |

Sun Shines on Select Law Firms

Five years ago, Sun Microsystems worked with about 400 outside law firms. In the last few months, Sun has dramatically pared down its roster of outside counsel to nine firms that handle all its routine work. Apart from the cost-cutting and organizational motivations, Sun GC Michael Dillon says the law firm business has changed. The traditional law firm billable-hours model is "disjointed" from business reality, he said, and the race to meet New York associate salary standards "just exacerbates the problem."
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December 02, 2009 |

Tax Lawyers Still Swamped in Wake of IRS Offshore Amnesty

The DOJ's success in cracking the secrecy of Swiss bank UBS has opened up a whole new arena for lawyers handling tax disputes. The lower-penalty voluntary disclosure program the IRS ran between March and October prompted thousands of U.S. taxpayers with foreign accounts to come out of the woodwork. By mid-November, more than 14,700 taxpayers had come forward, dwarfing the number of those who'd done so in 2008. Though the deadline has passed, California tax lawyers say they're still getting plenty of calls.
6 minute read
November 12, 2007 |

The 2007 NLJ 250

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July 11, 2000 |

Farewell to Books of Yore

As lawyers go online, the dust factor in many law libraries is being dramatically reduced because there are fewer books to collect dust. A few brave souls are close to dispensing with physical libraries altogether, but even those hanging on to books say that investments of time and money are geared toward creating a virtual resource space.
8 minute read
February 18, 2008 |

Federal judge blasts top IP litigators

Two of the San Francisco Bay Area's most prominent IP litigators were excoriated this week by a federal judge for allegedly misleading jurors in a patent infringement trial. McDermott Will Emery's Terrence McMahon and Vera Elson were chastised for "abuse of advocacy" in the trial judge's Tuesday order requiring the firm and its client to pay the opposing side's attorney fees.
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