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December 09, 2009 | Law.com

Supreme Court Rejects Early Appeals of Attorney-Client Privilege Determinations

Federal court orders requiring litigants to disclose information that they believe is protected by the attorney-client privilege do not qualify for immediate appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. In her first opinion since joining the Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that permitting successive, piecemeal appeals of all adverse attorney-client privilege rulings "would unduly delay the resolution of district court litigation and needlessly burden the Courts of Appeals."
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February 11, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Large Firm Layoffs Lead to Small Firm Startups

Omair Farooqui had always wanted to hang up his own shingle, but he had a good job as a mid-level intellectual property associate at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. With a regular paycheck, why rush to rock the boat?
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January 04, 2010 | National Law Journal

The good fight

Profile of Angela Ciccolo, Interim General Counsel and Secretary to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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November 03, 2009 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court Rejects Certified Question From 5th Circuit in Kidnap Case

Under federal law dating back to 1802, one way for a case to wind up before the Supreme Court is for a federal appeals court to certify a question to the justices. It has never been a frequently traveled path to the high court, but it has been allowed from time to time -- though not since 1981. On Monday the justices rejected such a request by the 5th Circuit to resolve a statute-of-limitations issue that could affect prosecution of long-ago civil rights cases in the South.
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Waiting Continues for Big Decisions at the Supreme Court
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No word yet on affirmative action, voting rights, or same-sex marriage, but the justices did resolve three of the outstanding 26 cases to be decided, ruling on issues as diverse as arbitration, sentencing, and even raisins.

September 28, 2009 | National Law Journal

Justices to Take Up Lawyer Ethics, Errors

How lawyers do their jobs -- from the type of advice they give clients to the calculation of fees -- moves to the fore in the new U.S. Supreme Court term in six cases that could dramatically alter the day-to-day practice of law. The justices in recent terms typically have taken two or three cases, or even none, involving lawyering. The upswing may reflect a larger movement toward greater scrutiny of the legal profession, particularly in the wake of corporate and government scandals involving lawyers.
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February 03, 2010 | Law.com

Greenberg Traurig Completes Leadership Transition

The leadership succession plan announced by Greenberg Traurig a year ago is now complete. CEO Cesar Alvarez, who joined the Miami-based firm as its 13th lawyer in 1973, stepped aside last week to let the firm's president, Richard Rosenbaum, assume the role of chief executive. In an interview with The Miami Herald, Alvarez said that as executive chairman he'll continue to oversee moves to new offices and look at ways to streamline certain practice groups, but that any final say will now be with Rosenbaum.
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March 14, 2003 | Law.com

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October 26, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

IOLTA Ineligible List

Notice to the bar.
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March 16, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Faiveley Transport Malmo AB, plaintiff-appellee v. Wabtec Corp., defendant-appellant

Evidence Did Not Support Court's Finding of Likely Disclosure of Stolen Subway Brake Trade Secrets
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