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August 06, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

2007 Fast Track Winners Announced

The following are the names of the 35 Pennsylvania attorneys who have been selected as this year's Lawyers on the Fast Track. They will be honored at the annual Fast Track Dinner in Philadelphia Sept. 20. With the help of a panel of judges, The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly have selected from your nominations these individuals as the future leaders of the state's legal community.
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April 03, 2003 | Law.com

California Justices Divided Over Approach to Anti-Intel E-Mail

Taking up a much-awaited case in which a disgruntled former employee bombarded Intel Corp. workers with thousands of anti-company e-mails, the California Supreme Court appeared Wednesday to be headed for a 4-3 split -- but it was unclear in which party's favor the split would be. In a second argument, the justices examined what proof clients must show in order to sue transactional attorneys for malpractice over botched negotiations.
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January 07, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Law Firms Raise $800,000 So Far to Aid South Asians

New York lawyers are making sizable contributions to the worldwide tsunami disaster relief effort.
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February 23, 2006 | Law.com

Wolf Block Expands IP Practice in N.Y.

Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen has expanded its intellectual property practice in New York with the addition of five attorneys from the Manhattan-based boutique Steinberg & Raskin. Wolf Block Chairman Mark L. Alderman said the group would supplement the firm's pre-existing patent prosecution and copyright and trademark capabilities while adding the patent litigation link that was missing in the New York office.
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January 07, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

Lamb Returns to Practice

After completing his one-year appointment to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, William Lamb has returned to practice with his partner of 31 years, James McErlane, at their West Chester-based firm.
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July 30, 2001 | Law.com

Foreign Businesses Aren't Protected by U.S. Antitrust Law

American antitrust laws do not protect foreign businesses from anticompetitive conduct, even if the alleged illegal conduct occurred in the United States, a federal judge in Philadelphia has ruled. Travel agents in the Caribbean and Latin America claimed U.S.-based airlines conspired to reduce their commissions to a flat rate. The Sherman Act, the judge said, "does reach conduct outside our borders, but only when the conduct has an effect on American commerce."
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June 13, 2005 | Law.com

Doctor's Death Ends Diet Drug Case

A Philadelphia judge has granted a defense motion for summary judgment in a case in which the doctor who prescribed diet drugs to a fen-phen plaintiff died before he could be deposed. Because the plaintiff has no way to show that her physician would not have prescribed her diet drugs had he received a different warning from Wyeth as to their possible side effects, she is "unable to establish that Wyeth's alleged failure to warn was the proximate cause of her injuries," the judge wrote.
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September 11, 2009 | Law.com

Recession Too Late for Big Impact on Number of Philadelphia First-Years

The number of first-year associates entering the Philadelphia offices of local firms increased 2.8 percent between 2008 and 2009 as the economy didn't fall soon enough for some firms to realize they would have a drop in employment needs come this month, according to the results of The Legal Intelligencer's 2009 Philadelphia First-Year Associates Survey. And it was a mixed bag when it came to how many firms deferred associates, with seven of 15 firms saying they did defer associates by some time period.
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May 01, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Reboul MacMurray Boutique Joins Forces With Ropes & Gray

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July 17, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Lead Plaintiff Pick Rejected As Merely 'Pawn of Counsel'

A federal judge has rejected a proposed co-lead plaintiff for the Monster Worldwide Inc. securities fraud class action because the representative knew nothing about the case. Southern District Judge Jed Rakoff said the Steamship Trade Association International Longshoremen's Pension Fund was "simply the willing pawn of counsel" because it "has no interest in, genuine knowledge of, and/or meaningful involvement in this case."
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