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February 21, 2006 | National Law Journal

Parsing Alito's Clerk Picks

Supreme Court Justice David Souter once said of the high court, "Coming here is like walking through a tidal wave. For Justice Samuel Alito Jr., arriving in midterm, the wave is already cresting. To help ride it out, he's chosen three of his former clerks, including one headline-making hire that has been portrayed as an early signal of the new justice's conservative stripes. But after a bruising Senate confirmation battle, are Alito's clerk picks partisan or merely practical?
5 minute read
March 29, 2007 | Law.com

Jeffer, Mangels Aids Chapter 7 Rebound

Usually when a firm hits Chapter 7 bankruptcy, it's all over except the autopsy. But a surprise investor's $100 million revived a Hawaiian developer at the last moment.
3 minute read
December 06, 2006 | The American Lawyer

IPO Case Hits Big Snag At Second Circuit

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November 14, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Pro Bono Digest

William J. Dean, executive director of Volunteers of Legal Service, writes that as part of a board-approved restructuring of the Legal Aid Society, pro bono work done in partnership with the private bar is being given a high priority. Also, Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers have been conducting well-received trial skills training programs for the benefit of public interest lawyers.
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September 19, 2001 | Law.com

Daily Off-Site Backups Saved Data from Disaster

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September 26, 2007 | Law.com

$70M Suit Against Cadwalader Reflects Risks of Practice in Mortgage-Backed Securities

As the global slowdown in the market for mortgage-backed securities threatens a core practice area of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the New York law firm is also wrestling with a $70 million legal malpractice suit brought by a major issuer of such securities. Cadwalader is one of the nation's top law firms when it comes to securitizations, and its large practice in the area has helped catapult the firm to the top of the profitability charts over the past few years.
6 minute read
March 31, 2004 | Law.com

High Court Struggles With Alien Tort Statute

In a case watched closely by human rights groups and business organizations, the Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled to decide when foreigners can use U.S. courts to litigate over foreign violations of international law. Some justices seemed inclined to favor at least a limited right to bring such suits, while others saw the litigation as "serious interference with the political branches to conduct foreign affairs," as Justice Antonin Scalia put it.
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January 28, 2002 | New York Law Journal

Mayer, Brown Seals Largest U.K. Merger

M ayer, Brown & Platt has acquired 250-lawyer London firm Rowe & Maw in the largest American acquisition of a U.K. law firm to date.
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May 29, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Fools Rush In

One by one, different segments of the bar have gotten the message in recent years: The U.S. Supreme Court is a place where novices, more often than not, should fear to tread. That is, all segments but one: the criminal defense bar, where individuality and swagger persist, and where solo newbies hold to the romantic notion that if they can conquer a hometown jury, they can work the same charm on the nine justices of the nation's highest court.
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September 13, 2007 | Law.com

Irvine Dumps Liberal Law Dean

After six months of talks � and a recent $20 million gift from a prominent Republican � UC-Irvine officials decide Erwin Chemerinsky's high-profile politics are incompatible with the dean job they'd offered.
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