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Deferred Associates Stay Busy Before Starting at Their Firms
Many incoming first-year associates at large law firms are dealing with months of unexpected free time because their firms have delayed their start dates from the fall of 2009 to January 2010 or later. While some are vacationing or relaxing after taking their bar exam, others have found jobs, either on their own or with the assistance of their firms. Here are five "What I Did on My Deferral" stories from incoming first-year associates at Texas firms.Battling a Bureacracy Run Amok
Nearly 45 years after it was begun, the impetus for the Security Risk Committee of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia seems to have come from an unusual source. The committee was established in January 1955 to provide legal and investigative help to federal employees who had been branded disloyal or security risks. It was the brainchild not of some firebrand defense lawyer but of the U.S. Navy's general counsel.In the court's first application of tougher standards for proving inequitable conduct, Winston's James Hurst convinced the Federal Circuit to back a district court's finding that two patents related to a Sanofi-Aventis cancer treatment were invalid.
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