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August 02, 2006 |

Torts plan brings rough surf to ABA

5 minute read
July 28, 2003 |

Plaintiffs' Firms Working for Corporations

When New York hedge fund manager Robert Knapp was looking for a lawyer to sue the directors he thought were mismanaging one of his fund's holdings, he immediately turned to the white-shoe firms he had used in the past. Their response was not what he expected.
6 minute read
June 18, 2007 |

Am Law 200 Lawyers Reflect on Life in the War Zone

Among the more than 1 million Americans who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan since 2001, a handful are returning to prewar lives as lawyers with large firms. The American Lawyer's interviews with more than two dozen attorneys show that although the war has been largely unfelt in Am Law 200 offices, it is intensely personal for those who have worked or served in the war zone. By serving, they also pushed against colleagues' unspoken assumption that wars are fought by someone other than lawyers.
6 minute read
July 29, 2010 |

Fed Circuit Nominee O'Malley, Two Others Sail Through Confirmation Hearings

Three of President Obama's nominees for seats on the federal bench faced little opposition when they appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
3 minute read
October 26, 2006 |

Medco Health to Pay $155 Million to End Fraud, Kickback Claims

Medco Health Solutions Inc., the nation's second-largest pharmacy benefit manager, has agreed to pay $155 million in fines to settle fraud and kickback claims brought by federal prosecutors in Philadelphia that stemmed from a pair of whistleblower cases filed in 1999 and 2000. The settlement, which was struck after extensive mediations conducted by Senior U.S. District Judge J. William Ditter Jr., avoids a trial that would have lasted two months.
5 minute read
November 30, 2010 |

Largest PA Public Corporations

The following is a list of the largest public corporations in Pennsylvania as reported in the 2010 edition of PaLAW magazine.
43 minute read
July 30, 2003 |

Bridging the Divide

Many large companies instinctively call on corporate defense firms to represent them, even when they themselves are the plaintiffs. But the psychological and cultural chasm separating much of the corporate and financial world from plaintiffs' lawyers, often regarded as corporate America's implacable foes, is starting to close.
6 minute read
February 25, 2003 |

Cleveland Clinic Isn't Liable in Slaying by Ex-Psychiatric Patient

June D. BellSpecial to American Lawyer MediaT he crime that triggered this civil suit was as horrific as they come: A 15-year-old freshman on her way to school was gunned down by a stalker convinced she'd spurned his love. As Penny Chang walked with friends in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Scott C. Strothers, 21, repeatedly fired a 9 mm pistol at her back and head.
6 minute read
August 04, 2000 |

Movers & Shakers

Follow lawyers' career moves and law firms' transformations each week with "Movers & Shakers." This week, Chicago's Barack Ferrazano Kirschbaum Perlman & Nagelberg hired two new partners from the Chicago office of Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner; Karen J. Mathis of Denver's Hall & Mathis was elected chairwoman of the ABA's House of Delegates; and New York's Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells hired four new partners in two offices.
4 minute read
December 14, 2004 |

Rebel Without a Cause of Action

A man who was fired for refusing to stop displaying Confederate flags in his workplace has lost his bid to revive an employment discrimination suit that said he was discriminated against on the basis of his religion and his national origin as a "Confederate Southern-American." The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling's ruling on the case but has split on its reasoning.
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