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2005 Lawyers on the Fast Track
Following are the names of the Pennsyvlania attorneys who have been selected as this year's Lawyers on the Fast Track. With the help of a panel of judges, American Lawyer Media-PA has selected from you nominations these individuals as the future leaders of the legal community.A ruling upholding a jury verdict for a smoker's estate against three cigarette makers doesn't seem like it would be good news for the tobacco industry. But a decision Friday affirming a $2.5 million damages award against Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, and Liggett Group has a chance--albeit a slight one--to be the sweetest appellate loss the companies have suffered in a decade of Florida litigation.
Plaintiffs lawyers challenging a deal under which Bayer paid Barr to keep its generic version of Cipro off the market are hoping that widespread amicus support will persuade the Supreme Court to grant their petition for certiorari and resolve, once and for all, the controversy over pay-to-delay pharma deals. But history suggests they may be overly optimistic.
From A to Z, the D.C. Metro Area's Largest Law Offices
The Legal Times 150 ranks the largest law offices in the region in 2005. Here they are, one last time, from Akin Gump to Zuckerman SpaederContract Law Finding Right Fit Online
Terms of use posted on Web sites purport to have the force of binding contracts that define the Web site policies and restrictions imposed by the site owner. Yet many of these on-line agreements lack the traditional contract requirement of enabling a firm offer and acceptance. Web site operators need to be extra vigilant to ensure that any posted license or terms of use will be upheld in the event of a dispute.Freshfields' Restructuring Marks a Break With the Past
This year, for the first time ever, London's Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer was sued by a former partner. Never mind the damages sought; the publicity was bad enough. The suit and the internal wranglings it exposed are testimony to a cultural shift at Freshfields, which had always prided itself on a certain collegiality. Underperformers have been weeded out, and the firm's equity partnership fundamentally altered. Now, as the bloodletting draws to a close, partners insist that the upheaval was worth it.Goldman Sachs has endured a long losing streak in a sexual discrimination class action brought by three former female employees back in 2010. But the bank's lawyers at Paul Hastings and Sullivan & Cromwell finally caught a break Thursday in a key decision for Title VII defendants.
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