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March 13, 2008 |

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December 18, 2001 |

Runner-up: Rudolph W. Giuliani

Last fall, on winning a $15 million verdict against the city of Chicago in a police corruption civil rights case, litigator Philip S. Beck said, "It's not like I'm some kind of bleeding-heart liberal here who is a cause lawyer." Not that anyone was calling Beck a bleeding-heart liberal, given his other famous recent client: George W. Bush. Beck was the president-to-be's point man last year in the Florida election debacle.
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March 24, 2004 |

A Killer Called 'Youngster'

Nine years after killing a woman and sexually assaulting the victim's mother, Texas death row inmate Anzel Keon Jones is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will decide that executing someone who committed crimes while under 18 is unconstitutional. At least one other Texas execution has been halted pending a decision, and Jones' attorney expects all 27 of the state's death row inmates who were under 18 at the time of their crimes to seek stays.
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March 12, 2010 |

Capitol Report

A round-up of action from Trenton.
7 minute read
March 25, 2002 |

Outside Counsel

T he New York Times began an article stating, "[i]f you`re going to confide in someone, who should it be: a doctor, a psychotherapist or a lawyer? This is not the beginning of a joke." 1 The article went on to discuss that the American Bar Association, in August 2001, approved a proposal to change the rules of confidentiality between lawyers and their clients.
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December 01, 2009 |

'Iqbal' Derails Tubercular Attorney's Privacy Complaint

Attorney Andrew Speaker, who made news when he took a trans-Atlantic flight while infected with a rare strain of tuberculosis, probably lost his bid to hold the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention liable for federal privacy act violations based on recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, which changed the standard for dismissal on the eve of his filing. According to a Georgia federal judge's ruling, Speaker failed to meet that standard, which limits notice pleadings by requiring them to contain specific factual allegations.
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January 19, 2012 |

Adding third shifts at auto plants jump-starts local economies

Auto workers in the U.S. are benefiting from the return of a third shift at factories — often from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. — translating to 24-hour-a-day production at many plants for the first time since the industry collapse in 2009.
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July 17, 2002 |

Fulton Ends Reverse Bias Case, Pays Trio $3.5 Million

R. Robin [email protected] years after Fulton County lost a reverse discrimination case in federal court here, the county has paid three white former employees $3.5 million in damages. Atlanta attorney Edward D. Buckley III, a partner at Buckley Klein, said the county paid the judgment on June 30, less than three weeks after the U.
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July 11, 2007 |

Silverman Living His Dream As General Counsel for Pirates

More than four out of five U.S. workers are not working at their dream jobs, according to a survey released earlier this year by CareerBuilder.com.
6 minute read
August 20, 2013 |

Should Employers Consider Obesity a Disability?

In June 2013, the American Medical Association passed Resolution 420, which officially recognizes obesity as a "disease state with multiple pathophysiological aspects." Although the AMA opposes any effort to make obesity a disability under the law, there is no doubt that this recognition of obesity as a disease will have significant legal consequences.
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