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September 12, 2002 | Law.com

A $500 Per Hour Bargain

When does $500 per hour seem cheap? When it's compared to $3 million. A bit of explanation: If a traditional agent represented seven National Basketball Association players and took the NBA maximum 4 percent of their total $75-80 million deals, his cut would be a cool $3 mil. But Williams & Connolly's Lon Babby has used his regular D.C. market-rate fee structure -- a relative bargain -- to become a prime-time agent in big-time sports.
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April 19, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Gucci's Fired (Non-Lawyer) In-House Lawyer Savages Ex-Company in Court Papers

The ex-chief legal officer fired by Gucci because he was not authorized to practice law fires back at the company in an affidavit filed amid the luxury apparel designer's trademark battle with Guess?
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March 18, 2005 | Law.com

Dorsey & Whitney Suffers Defections

As law firms increasingly seek to establish New York and Washington locations to boost their national prominence, Dorsey & Whitney's downsizing has attracted notice. Its D.C. office suffered key defections after tech and regional downturns, and, more recently, its Manhattan office has endured losses. Some departing lawyers blame management blunders for the attrition, but managing partner Peter Hendrixson says the firm is shedding lawyers to focus on core competencies.
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September 15, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Questions Data In Smokers' Class Suit

A federal judge Wednesday expressed skepticism over a proposed class action lawsuit that would seek as much as $200 billion in damages against the tobacco industry for its allegedly deceptive marketing of light cigarettes.
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March 30, 2010 | The Recorder

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June 21, 2007 | Law.com

MasterCard Wins Battle Against Visa Concerning Service Fees

Attorneys at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have won a huge, three-year-long battle for MasterCard and against Visa. MasterCard was challenging a Visa bylaw that forced its largest debit card issuers to pay a large penalty for switching their business to a competitor. U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones of the Southern District of New York ruled that a service fee Visa places on its debit card issuers basically deters them from taking their business to a competitor, making it illegal.
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September 19, 2000 | Law.com

Photos of Vodka Bottle Are Protected by Copyright

San Francisco photographer Joshua Ets-Hokin can proceed with his suit against distiller Skyy Spirits after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled his stylized pictures of a vodka bottle are sufficiently original to qualify for copyright protection. The court said the photos cannot be derivative works because the underlying work -- the vodka bottle -- is not copyrightable.
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April 25, 2001 | Law.com

Litigation Scorecard: Fen-Phen Jury Awards $56M

Who's Behind: American Home Products Corp. Final Score: $56.55 million jury verdict Gloria Lopez began taking the drug pondimin, the fenfluramine portion of the weight-reduction medication fen-phen in order to lose a few pounds. While the drug did help her lose the weight, her attorneys argue the drug also left her with a severe, irreversible defect in her aortic valve that will eventually require valve replacement surgery.
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May 10, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Vacancy in DeKalb Court Has 36 Suitors

R. Robin [email protected] DeKalb State Court judgeship vacated by Denise L. Majette has drawn a varied list of candidates, including judges, prosecutors and legislators.Majette resigned from the post in January when she announced she would challenge U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney in the state's Democratic primary.
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April 08, 2003 | Law.com

The Brobeck Exodus

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