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May 15, 2007 | National Law Journal

N.J. Firms Hike First-Year Pay, Bulk Up on New Hires

New Jersey's big firms are hiring larger classes of new associates and boosting first-year salaries by more than 10 percent. Salaries this fall will range from $95,000 to $130,000, and hires are up 19 percent from last year. New Jersey firms face competition from nearby New York firms, some of which boast a starting salary of $160,000. But Lowenstein Sandler managing partner Michael Rodburg tells laterals at New York firms that New Jersey firms have their employers beat on "lifestyle and opportunity bases."
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October 02, 2007 | National Law Journal

Commentary: Rainmaking Is the Tool for Breaking the Glass Ceiling

The turnover of women attorneys is costing law firms millions of dollars. They invest in bringing along women associates only to see them go just as they become profitable to the firm. From a strictly economic viewpoint, says consultant Larry Bodine, it makes much more sense to teach women business development skills so they will enjoy success and generate more revenue for their firms. To that end, law firms need to offer women lawyers support in business development, he says.
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August 10, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

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Following are the names of the 30 Pennsylvania attorneys who have been selected as this year's "Lawyers on the Fast Track."p
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June 09, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

N.J. Court To Decide Whether Suit Over J&J Sutures Satisfied Discovery Rule

The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether an appellate panel improperly dismissed as time-barred a product-liability suit against Johnson & Johnson over sutures alleged to have caused post-surgical injuries.
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March 24, 1999 | Law.com

NCAA, Plaintiffs, Wrestle Over Implementation of Order

Now that Pennsylvania judge Ronald Buckwalter has ruled that black student athletes have been disparately impacted by the NCAA's use of SAT scores to decide freshman-year eligibility, a legal scramble is underway to sort out exactly when his ruling should take effect. On Tuesday, lawyers for the class filed briefs with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opposing any stay of the order.
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June 15, 1999 | Law.com

'Father of Modern Class Actions,' Harold Kohn, Dies

Harold E. Kohn, who has been described as one of the architects of modern class-action litigation, died yesterday in Philadelphia. The founding partner of Kohn Swift & Graf was 85 years old. Kohn won landmark cases for independent motion picture exhibitors against film studios, cases which, according to colleagues, "opened up the whole field" of antitrust class actions.
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June 22, 1999 | Law.com

NRA Draws a Bead on Retrial of Members' Defamation Case

Lawyers for the National Rifle Association have set their sights on winning a new trial of a defamation case in which a jury awarded $4.45 million to two NRA members who said their reputations were smeared when NRA President Charlton Heston falsely accused them of staging a disruption at the organization's annual meeting. The NRA argues that it should never have been forced to stand trial just two weeks after the high-school massacre in Colorado.
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July 02, 2007 | Law.com

Passengers in Vehicle Causing Injury May Be Liable for Not Helping Victim

Carving out a limited exception to the "innocent bystander" rule, a New Jersey appeals court says a passenger may have a duty to summon help after an accident if the driver fails to do so. Central to the court's ruling was the finding that the passengers were far more than innocent bystanders, whose passive inaction traditionally is not a basis for liability. Rather, they left a motorcyclist struck by their car in the road without summoning help, and he died after being struck by a second car.
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April 24, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Flash training 2010 Test: Part 2a

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April 28, 2006 | Law.com

2006 Am Law 100: Two More Billion-Dollar Firms

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