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November 26, 2007 | Law.com

Blood Money Paid by Chiquita Shows Company's Hard Choices

Chiquita Brands International says it had to pay off Colombian terrorists to protect its employees. The Justice Department says the company simply made an "expedient" choice. An exhaustive look at the four-year probe finds that neither side is exactly right. Documents, as well as interviews with attorneys from both sides, paint a portrait of a GC and a company giving in to extortion. It is the stuff of spy thrillers, describing veiled threats of violence, secret payments and an excruciating moral dilemma.
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October 13, 2003 | Law.com

Ashcroft's Inner Sanctum

Since taking the DOJ's reins, Attorney General John Ashcroft has relied on a cadre of advisers to monitor department activities and flag issues for his consideration. He rarely sits down with senior managers, and filters most matters through two people. Interviews with administration officials suggest that access to the AG is controlled by advisers who at times seem to run the department more like the office of a legislator seeking re-election than an executive branch agency.
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September 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Cases Raise Issues Affecting Day-to-Day Practice of Law

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Glaxo Ponies Up Reported $250 Million in Latest Round of Avandia Settlements
Publication Date: 2011-02-07
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In keeping with its established strategy of settling batches of cases with individual plaintiffs lawyers, GSK has resolved all of the more than 5,000 cases filed by the two lawyers who were to have tried the first Avandia bellwether case last month. The price tag is eye-popping, but that's nothing new for the multibillion-dollar Avandia litigation.

October 31, 2000 | Law.com

Campaign or Career?

Many young attorneys in the Washington D.C. area have left behind the law firm life for jobs in the presidential campaigns. They acknowledge that trading big salaries for a chance to work in the new administration, which isn't guaranteed even if their candidate wins, is a tough decision. But as one young attorney says, "There's never a bad time to do something you feel passionately about."
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November 23, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Largest Pennsylvania Public Corporations

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November 21, 2000 | Law.com

White & Case: GOP House Counsel

White & Case partners George Terwilliger III and Timothy Flanigan heeded the Bush campaign's distress call the day after the election and flew south, into the eye of the election storm. Outside Florida, White & Case offices morphed into foot soldiers. The N.Y. firm, at least for the first frenetic days, became the Bush campaign's in-house counsel and still has a hand in post-election legal matters.
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Newsweek Source: Obama to Tap Holder as AG
Publication Date: 2008-11-19
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July 10, 2003 | Law.com

Electronic Arts GC Helps Set Moral Tone

Ruth Kennedy, Electronic Arts's principled GC, helps keep the company's games "clean." But will edgier rivals vanquish it?
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High Court to Weigh in on Attorney General Lawsuits
Publication Date: 2013-05-28
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In a price-fixing case that Mississippi's attorney general brought against a slew of LCD makers, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether parens patriae lawsuits are class actions in disguise that don't belong in the hands of state court judges.

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