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December 20, 2002 | Law.com

Free Speech, on the Cheap

Lawrence J. Siskind tells us that "freedom of speech" has become the first refuge of a scoundrel. Meet Amiri Baraka, Tom Paulin and Lynne Stewart. Not only does each spout unpopular views, all enjoy a special perch from which to spew those views. And, when his or her right to receive special treatment is challenged, each indignantly invokes freedom of speech. The fact that anyone takes their complaints seriously teaches us much about the true nature of freedom of speech.
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November 15, 1999 | Law.com

A Yankees New Workshop

Much is riding on the efforts of Dean John Brittain, formerly a Connecticut professor, to turn around struggling Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law. For many Texas minority students, Thurgood Marshall is the only option for law school.
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September 17, 2007 | Daily Report Online

The power of climate change

UNLIKE SOME OF HIS COUNTERPARTS in the corporate world, David Ratcliffe, the chief executive officer of Southern Co., has not attempted to jump feet first out of the smoke emanating from his company's more than 200 coal, oil and gas generating units and into the warm green haze of the global climate change movement.He's certainly careful to detail Southern Co.
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November 04, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

Paralyzed UPS Worker's Suit Settles For $4.1 Million in Bergen County

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November 11, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Criminal Defendants Hobbled by Hobbs Act

The great divide over the federalization of violent crimes grew larger at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with the release of an evenly split en banc opinion affirming the conviction of a man sentenced to 97 years in prison for armed robbery. The man had argued that federal officials overstepped their bounds by using the Hobbs Act, a federal law aimed at criminals who interfere with interstate commerce, to prosecute him.
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May 11, 2007 | Law.com

The Culture Gap

So many countries, so many rules for attorneys to follow. The way attorneys exchange business cards or conduct meetings can differ from country to country. Globalization of the legal world has led more lawyers to travel overseas, so grasping another country's customs can make or break a lawyer's deal. And though a number of large law firms are adding cross-cultural training of some sort, others say there are more important ways to serve clients, and they simply try to practice cultural sensitivity.
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January 12, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

Inadmissible

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March 04, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

From Tax To Tech

Scott Kerr of Austin has been through what many in-house lawyers would consider a nightmare: working for a company that's being sold. And he's done it twice. He's deputy general counsel of Charleston, S.C.-based Blackbaud Inc.
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July 08, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

An End and a Beginning

Judge Robert M. Parker of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who headquarters in Tyler, recently told his colleagues on the court that he intends to retire on Nov. 1, 2002. His retirement, together with the death of former Judge Henry Politz, who once was chief judge of the court, and the appointment to the court of Judge Edith Brown Clement, should be of significant interest - and, perhaps, concern - to the bench and bar of the 5th Circuit. This change in the makeup of the court surely will resul
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December 19, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Edging up again

The National Law Journal asked the respondents to its 2006 survey of the nation's 250 largest law firms to provide a range of hourly billing rates for partners and associates. The firms that supplied this information-including some firms that are not in the NLJ 250-are listed below in alphabetical order. We also asked firms to provide average and median billing rates; several firms provided this information as well.
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