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September 13, 2004 | Law.com

Compensation for Freed Guantanamo Detainee? It's Possible

The first military detainee will soon be freed from the Guantanamo Bay naval base with what amounts to a formal pardon: an official ruling by a Pentagon tribunal that, after being held for nearly three years, he's not an enemy combatant after all. Despite military statements to the contrary, Guantanamo detainees' attorneys say the government may be forced to pay compensation. And even those who believe the law does not require the government to dole out money say it might be the right thing to do.
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November 16, 2009 | Law.com

Big Firms Slashed Headcount at International Offices, 'NLJ 250' Shows

Attorneys in the international offices of the nation's top law firms weren't spared a pummeling by a recession that hit global proportions in 2009. A big piece of the 4 percent decline in the total number of attorneys at large law firms came from losses in international offices, according to The National Law Journal's "NLJ 250." Law firms with significant foreign practices saw their numbers in those offices decline -- often sharply -- as they struggled to adjust to plummeting demand from clients.
4 minute read
September 19, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Disloyal Employee Must Forfeit Pay, Circuit Rules

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March 31, 2005 | New York Law Journal

A Win in Name Only

Earlier this month, FG Hemisphere Associates earned a victory in its quest to enforce a $151 million judgment against the Republic of Congo. The decision, written by Southern District Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman was fairly one-sided in FG Hemisphere's favor. But there was a catch.
6 minute read
June 06, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Firms Starting to Take Hard Line on Law Directories

8 minute read
March 10, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Law Firms' Tax Advice Challenged in Report

7 minute read
July 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Playing 3-D Chess

In many of the biggest disputes from our 2009 Arbitration Scorecard, one battleground isn't enough.
18 minute read
July 09, 2004 | Law.com

Top Prosecutor Bolts from DOJ

Another high-profile supervisor is leaving the U.S. attorney's office. Martha Boersch, who recently secured the conviction of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko after a lengthy trial, will step down as a prosecutor at the beginning of September to join Jones Day's burgeoning San Francisco practice.
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March 03, 2003 | Law.com

N.Y. Summer Associates' Buildable Hours

New York summer associates expect to roll up their sleeves and work, but this year, they might actually be strapping on tool belts and donning hard hats -- to help Habitat for Humanity build a new home for a low-income family. As explained by Latham & Watkins' Elizabeth L. Flanagan and Roger S. Goldman to representatives of 27 New York firms last week, "Buildable Hours" is the ideal summer associate project.
6 minute read
October 09, 2009 | Law.com

What a Hogan/Lovells Merger Would Mean

If Hogan & Hartson, the Washington giant, and Lovells, the most global of the leading U.K. firms, consummate their merger talks, the new entity will have a chance to remake a corner of the Big Law marketplace. It would be the first major trans-Atlantic merger of globally oriented equals; the first trans-Atlantic deal that would be built, in significant part, on the strength of its combined litigation practices; and the first deal of its sort that didn't pretend to offer entree into the New York capital markets.
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