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March 19, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Lackawanna County Guardian Ad Litem Sued In Federal Court

A Lackawanna County man has sued the county's guardian ad litem in federal court, alleging the family court's guardian ad litem program deprived litigants of constitutional rights and that the court's sole guardian "thoroughly misunderstood and misapplied her role."
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December 27, 2000 | Law.com

The Generals

Lawyers and activists spent nearly two decades investigating the 1980 torture, rape, and murder of four American churchwomen in El Salvador. Five Salvadoran national guardsmen were convicted of the crimes, but what of those who ordered the executions? At last, the generals' legal residence in the U.S. allowed victims' families to use the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1992 to seek justice in a U.S. court.
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A Bad Week for O'Melveny: Mass Layoffs and Another Major Defection
Publication Date: 2009-03-04
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Is something up at O'Melveny? Since January the firm has lost its bankruptcy cochair (to Dechert), its white-collar practice group head (to Quinn Emanuel) and now copyright star Dale Cendali (to Kirkland). Plus, on Wednesday, the litigation-heavy shop announced the layoff of 90 lawyers.

October 21, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Defense Groups Back City vs. Bar Groups in Fight Over Providing the Poor With Criminal Lawyers

Five defender groups, which represent 22 percent of the indigent criminal defendants in New York City, have filed an amicus brief supporting the city's motion for dismissal of a lawsuit brought by five county bar associations to block plans to sharply curtail the private bar's role in representing the poor.
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November 17, 2004 | Law.com

A Matter of Death

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard about the horrific life of Joe Elton Nixon, a mentally retarded black man who, as a boy, was raped, beaten and put to forced labor. His story, of being tried in absentia and convicted for a grisly slaying, is at the heart of a capital murder case that professor Eric M. Freedman predicts law schools will long study. The case, says Freedman, "illustrates all the elements that typify death penalty cases ... Race, lousy counsel -- all the fundamental problems."
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September 22, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Randy Quaid, Wife Found Squatting in Their Old House, Busted for Burglary

Actor Randy Quaid and his wife are facing burglary charges in California after the owner of the couple's old house reported they had been living there without permission.
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May 24, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

UK Firm Sees Revenue Surge Past $320 Million, Seeks Merger as US Practice Booms

Clyde & Co saw revenues rise by just over 10% during the last financial year to take turnover through the �200m barrier for the first time.
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Wells Fargo Engaged in 'Sham' Tax Shelter, Court Finds; Loses Bid for $82 Million Tax Refund
Publication Date: 2011-10-04
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For five years, Wells Fargo has fought to get the U.S. government to refund the bank $82 million in taxes. But a federal judge in Minnesota on Friday ruled that the underlying transaction was a "sham" transaction and a tax shelter, and disallowed any refund.

July 14, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

Wartsila NSD North America, Inc. v. Hill International, Inc. etc.,

Where plaintiff initially sought arbitration against its subcontractor based on the reports of plaintiff's consultant but was forced to withdraw certain claims because of misrepresentations by one of the consultant's employees, and plaintiff then filed this action in New Jersey against the consultant, and the consultant filed a third-party complaint against plaintiff's attorneys, although the underlying factual basis of the third-party claims are independent of the attorneys' actions in connection with t
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Another Heavy-Hitting Litigator Leaves Akin Gump, But Firm Insists It's Just Fine
Publication Date: 2009-04-16
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Defections seem to have hit the firm's litigaton practice especially hard, but chairman Bruce MacLean chalks the departures up to "what happens at big firms."

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