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November 29, 2004 | National Law Journal

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April 12, 2010 | The Recorder

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June 21, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

Real Estate Choices Affect a Firm's Bottom Line

Real estate remains the largest fixed cost on a firm's balance sheet. A bad real estate transaction can hurt a firm's ability to be economically competitive for 10, 15 or even 20 years.
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May 25, 2007 | Law.com

Smaller Law Firms Mull Associate Salary Hikes

Small and midsize law firms that have no intention of matching the $160,000 large firms are doling out to first-year associates are finding different ways to stay competitive. "Most people would trade away money for hours in a heartbeat," says one legal recruiter. Sterne Kessler's associates expressed concern that "higher salaries would put more pressure on them," says managing director Michael Ray. So the firm came up with a tiered structure to allow associates to earn more if they work longer hours.
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January 22, 2001 | Law.com

Meet Janet Reno, Legal Aid Counselor

Walk-in legal clinics are famously unpredictable. Still, things were buzzing when a certain very public figure dropped by the D.C. Bar's monthly Advice and Referral Clinic at the local Whitman-Walker AIDS Clinic on Jan. 13. Then-Attorney General Janet Reno spent an hour of her last Saturday in office at the clinic. She told the volunteer lawyers: "I think you are absolutely magnificent."
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January 26, 2001 | Law.com

Keeping a Boss Out of Trouble

In May 1999, lawyers for Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center voluntarily told federal prosecutors the hospital had overbilled the government for Medicaid and Medicare patients. By doing so, the hospital avoided civil or criminal charges, not to mention heavy fines and negative publicity. The episode is a case study for corporate lawyers on how government-regulated companies can avoid liability problems.
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September 29, 2009 | The Recorder

Add Knockoff Handbags to Web Hosts' Woe

Louis Vuitton proves juries will pay out millions for contributory infringement — with the right facts.
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April 28, 2004 | Law.com

Judge Nixes Consumers' Class Against Credit Card Companies

Consumers' claims of injury against MasterCard and Visa are too remote to give them standing to bring a class action, a New York judge has ruled. The judge dismissed an amended complaint in which plaintiffs alleged stores that were forced to accept debit cards as well as credit cards passed along the debit cards' higher transaction costs to consumers. Several large retailers settled their own case against the card issuers for $3 billion last year.
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August 03, 2001 | Law.com

Copyright Rule Requiring Royalties for Radio Internet 'Streaming' is Affirmed

In a major win for the recording industry, a federal judge in Philadelphia has refused to overturn a U.S. Copyright Office ruling that says radio stations are not exempt from paying royalties to record producers and recording artists when their broadcasts are transmitted digitally over the Internet. U.S. District Judge Berle M. Schiller wrote that, for the most part, "courts should be passive players in this quickly changing area."
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January 16, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

2nd Circuit Dismisses Foreign Tax Claims Against Tobacco Companies

The legislative history of the USA Patriot Act does not show clear intent by Congress to abrogate a rule barring suits in the United States to enforce foreign tax judgments, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
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