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April 20, 2006 | New York Law Journal

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August 10, 2009 | Law.com

Senate Confirms Legal Nominees, but Not the Biggest Ones

The confirmation of incoming Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has broken a logjam of presidential nominees for other legal posts. But the highest-level nominees -- three circuit court nominees and four nominees for assistant attorney general positions -- will likely be waiting at least another month.
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February 04, 2013 | National Law Journal

House GOP gearing up for Obama probes

There were surprisingly few large-scale congressional investigations during 2012, at least for an election year. But experts expect that to change.
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April 19, 2004 | Law.com

Fear of Hostile Juries One Reason Firms Tend to Settle

Whatever advice they may give their clients about litigation, major law firms tend to follow the same strategy whenever they themselves are dragged into court: They settle. Within the past six weeks, two major firms have coughed up tens of millions of dollars to put significant lawsuits to rest. Virtually all major law firms that have been sued in the past two decades have settled their cases. Most believe both that juries would be unsympathetic to them and that a trial would be damaging to their practices.
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July 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Playing 3-D Chess

In many of the biggest disputes from our 2009 Arbitration Scorecard, one battleground isn't enough.
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June 21, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Expanding Criminal Discovery Responsibly

Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the New York County District Attorney, writes: In many cases in Manhattan and all over our state, witnesses are frightened, asked to lie, or asked to tailor their accounts so as to minimize their impact on the defendant at trial, and that is only for those who come forward at all. These problems provide a crucial backdrop to the current debate over expanding criminal discovery.
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January 05, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

From Fumo to F-Bombs, a Colorful Year at Federal Court

The cursing client who couldn't be controlled, the trespassing teens atop the trains, the phenomenal fees for the Fen-Phen lawyers and the sitting state senator on trial. Those were some of the more colorful subjects in the headlines of 2008 generated by cases in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania federal court.
12 minute read
January 19, 2006 | Law.com

Most Associate Bonuses at Large Texas Firms Mirror Last Year's

With some enviously high exceptions, bonuses paid at the end of 2005 to associates with large Texas firms were similar to bonuses paid at the end of 2004. Sure, Houston's Susman Godfrey paid out year-end bonuses ranging from $86,000 to $150,000 -- averaging 75 percent of each associate's base pay -- but most associates statewide received considerably less. George Lamb, chairman of Baker Botts' associate compensation committee, says its two-tier bonus is based on merit and on productivity.
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January 24, 2005 | Law.com

All Eyes on High Court Property Cases

Landowners, businesses and governments are closely watching a trio of cases before the Supreme Court with the potential to make this the most important property rights term in nearly two decades. Each case, say government officials, poses the threat of countless and costly lawsuits by businesses or private homeowners who will claim that federal, state or local governments have "taken" their property in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
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November 10, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Daily Decision Service Alert: Vol. 19, No. 217 - November 10 2010

Daily decision alert.
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