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June 28, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

Woman Awarded $400,000 in Bladder Sling Case

A Philadelphia law firm has scored the first plaintiff`s victory in one of more than 600 cases against a Boston-based medical supply company that manufactured an allegedly defective bladder sling device.
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June 19, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Buchanan, Klett Rooney To Merge Into Megafirm

Buchanan Ingersoll and Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling voted last Tuesday to give the go-ahead to a merger that would create a 525-lawyer national firm. Firm leaders anticipate that Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney of Philadelphia will be in the top 80 of national firms with estimated gross revenue of $265 million.
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February 25, 2004 | Law.com

Pa. Bar Exam Rules Harsh on Foreign Attorneys

There's been much talk recently about "brain drain," the flight of the Philadelphia area's top college and graduate students after completing school. And it appears to also be the case for foreign law students who wish to stay in the U.S. after earning advanced legal degrees. Because of stricter requirements to sit for its bar exam than for the New York, California or Washington, D.C., exams, Pennsylvania loses foreign students to those locales.
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March 31, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

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February 25, 2005 | Law.com

Philadelphia Lawyer Helps Win $96 Million Texas Verdict

A Philadelphia attorney and a team of Texas litigators secured a $96 million verdict against a Pennsylvania manufacturer of airport engines last week at the close of a seven-week jury trial in Texas. The jury found Lycoming Engines liable for fraud and 100 percent liable for the failure of crankshafts that broke and caused several airplane engines to fail in flight. It ordered the manufacturer to pay nearly $86.4 million in punitive damages and more than $9.7 million in actual damages.
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Susan Beck's Summary Judgment: Lessons from the Cravath Conflict Fracas
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Admit it: We're all amused, in a schadenfreude sort of way, at watching Cravath struggle to downplay the sophistication of its nine years of work for its former client Airgas. But GCs and outside counsel can learn from Cravath's decision to represent Air Products in its hostile bid for Airgas. Business isn't like dating. There's no reason not to put your relationship in writing.

May 12, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

Bowen et al v. The Parking Authority of the City of Camden et al,

Fed. R. Civ. P. 35(a) requires more than a claim for emotional distress as an element of an underlying cause of action to compel a psychiatric examination of a plaintiff; here, since plaintiff has alleged no more than a claim for emotional distress, defendant's motion to compel such an examination is denied.
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April 13, 2007 | Law.com

Litigation Over Collapse of Casino Garage Settles for $101 Million

Litigation over the 2003 parking garage collapse at Atlantic City, N.J.'s Tropicana Casino Resort that killed four workers and injured 32 others has settled for $101 million, lawyers in the case announced Wednesday. The settlement was the product of three months of negotiations under the auspices of a Superior Court judge whom the parties asked to monitor the case after private mediation failed. Defendants included contractors, engineering and architectural firms, and the corporate owners of the Tropicana.
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February 07, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

$2.5 Mil. Awarded in Legal Malpractice Suit

A Philadelphia jury has awarded $2.5 million in a legal malpractice suit against attorney John F. Hunt that was brought by a health care company that accused Hunt of acting with a conflict of interest when he effectively represented both sides in a corporate acquisition.
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August 24, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

Study Sees Lower Per Lawyer Employment of Secretaries

When recruiter Deborah O'Drain-Gibson started placing legal secretaries with law firms 20 years ago, each lawyer was assigned their own secretary, whose responsibilities often included taking shorthand and getting their bosses' coffee and lunch.
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