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February 16, 2000 | Law.com

Antitrust Regulators Seek Hike

The Clinton administration is doing its part for antitrust attorneys in its proposed 2001 budget. The administration seeks sharp increases in funding for antitrust regulators, asking for a 22 percent hike, to $134 million, for the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, and a 30 percent hike, to $165 million, for the FTC. To pay for the increases, the budget supports a hike in merger filing fees. The upshot: more antitrust worries for corporate law departments, and more work for their outside counsel.
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January 22, 2003 | Law.com

DOJ Fires at Lawyers for Big Tobacco

The federal government's suit against the tobacco industry is still being actively pursued. Last month, the Justice Department filed a motion claiming that industry lawyers violated the D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct. And at a hearing on Friday, the government said that top Philip Morris officials deleted thousands of e-mail messages they should have kept.
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March 15, 2010 | National Law Journal

Inadmissible

Roberts reveals a sweet side to hiring; Arent Fox forges onward; no questioning the fitness of new DOJ public integrity head; longtime D.C. clerk retires; Liu waits nine years to graduate; you never saw such piggish behavior in radio royalty fight; and there's an app for MoFo in this week's column.
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October 31, 2000 | Law.com

No Expert Required in HIV-Tainted Blood Case, Federal Judge Rules

No expert witness is needed in a negligence lawsuit over an HIV-tainted blood transfusion since it "does not allege medical malpractice in the traditional sense," a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled. Instead, the judge found the claim, which alleged the hospital failed to use reasonable care in obtaining the plaintiff's informed consent, to be "closer to ordinary negligence than to medical malpractice."
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May 15, 2000 | Law.com

The Price of Admission

Attorneys at big corporate firms rarely get busted for practicing law in jurisdictions where they're not licensed. Litigators team up with local counsel and get accepted pro hac vice. So why are big firms taking such pains to toe the line in Virginia? "The attorney who is not licensed in Virginia is certainly going to be prosecuted," says Bernard DiMuro, former chair of the Virginia Supreme Court Disciplinary Board. But in an era of Web-based legal services and global law firms, the issue is a "time bomb."
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April 30, 2001 | Law.com

Fen-Phen Judge Rejects Privilege for 9,500 Documents

In a major victory for plaintiffs in the fen-phen diet drug cases, a federal judge ruled American Home Products must turn over some 9,500 documents that AHP had claimed were privileged. AHP has entered into a massive settlement, but the ruling is nonetheless significant because the documents can be used by plaintiffs who opted out of the settlement and intend to take their cases to trial.
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December 21, 2001 | Law.com

Surviving Freshman Year

No one ever said it would be easy to run a big corporation's legal department, but the trying experiences of 2001 surpassed everyone's imagination. Mass layoffs, a troubled economy and the uncertainty of doing business after Sept. 11 made for an exceptionally challenging time. Corporate Counsel asked four rookie GCs to reflect back on their freshman year and discuss what's next.
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September 05, 2006 | New York Law Journal

L�pez Torres, plaintiffs-appellees v.New York State Board of Elections, defendants-appellants

Judicial Convention System Rejected; System Violates First Amendment Rights of Candidates, Voters
111 minute read
December 07, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

IPO Case Hits Big Snag At Second Circuit

A federal appeals court Tuesday vacated class certification in six key cases in the massive litigation over dot-com era initial public offerings - a potentially devastating setback for plaintiffs in the biggest consolidated securities class action in U.S. history.
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