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April 04, 2008 | National Law Journal

Climate Work Heating Up at Law Firms

A growing number of major firms are creating a climate change brand, with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom being the latest -- this week it was scheduled to launch a 23-lawyer group specifically devoted to climate change issues. "The whole area is changing," says Kenneth Berlin, who will head the group. "The area is developing so quickly now that it now merits a practice area." But unlike other fleeting law firm trends -- remember those Y2K practices? -- there appears to be real work to be done here.
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April 14, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Spitzer Sees 'Gaping Hole' In State's Wiretap Ability

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October 01, 2004 | Legaltech News

Reid Trautz

Director, Lawyer Practice Assistance Program, District of Columbia Bar
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December 01, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

How Did BigLaw Firm Get Entangled With Jamaican Politics and a Drug Lord?

Responding to a libel suit filed by Jamaican lawyer Harold Brady, the island nation's prime minister claims that a former chairman of the Republican National Committee in this country steered Jamaican officials to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips for help in dealing with a delicate extradition request.
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October 03, 2013 | The Recorder

HTC Loses Trial Over Chip Patent

A California jury ruled that the Taiwanese smartphone maker violated a microprocessor patent and awarded patent holders Technology Properties Limited and Patriot Scientific Corp. around $1 million in damages.
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September 03, 2010 | Law.com

Class Action Firm Opens IP Contingency Fee Practice

Pennsylvania plaintiffs firm Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check has opened a patent litigation practice, to be run on a contingency basis, with two partners from Philadelphia-based intellectual property boutique Woodcock Washburn: Michael J. Bonella and Paul B. Milcetic. "I really think this is a model whose time has come," Milcetic says. He notes his clients never explicitly said they wanted to switch from hourly billing to contingency fees, but he got the message based on things like how marketing went.
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June 26, 2006 | Law.com

State v. Dixon

When a court of appeals issues alternative rulings on the same issue, its decision will be affirmed if fewer than all alternative rulings are appealed.
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February 23, 2001 | Law.com

INS Fails to See the Light

In 1998, the Immigration and Naturalization Service agreed to let outside lawyers hold meetings for new INS detainees to teach them about their rights under U.S. law. But at the INS detention center on Varick Street in Manhattan, advocates for immigrants have sought for 18 months to be allowed to make regular presentations to new arrivals on their rights as they face deportation. They're still trying.
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April 28, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

The Unquiet Man

Judge Jim Wallace knows he has critics as well as supporters. "But since I continue to be elected, I must be doing something right," he says.
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August 24, 2009 | Law.com

Newly Released Documents Show Rehnquist's Private Side

Poignant letters from Chief Justice William Rehnquist's colleagues, written after his 2004 announcement that he was suffering from thyroid cancer, are among the latest Rehnquist papers to be released by the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University. The papers paint a picture of a Supreme Court under distress, even adrift, in the absence of his leadership after 18 years as chief justice. The archived materials also reflect a down-home style that won Rehnquist admirers across the political spectrum.
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