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May 27, 2005 | Law.com

Kilpatrick and Morris Manning's N.C. Offices Dealt Blows

April may be the cruelest month, but May has not been kind to Atlanta law firms with offices in Charlotte, N.C. All seven of Kilpatrick Stockton's business litigators in Charlotte have jumped to Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, where they join a team of 10 litigators in the Charlotte office. "Lawyers come and go. Some come and go more than others," said Kilpatrick's managing partner. Also in Charlotte, a five-lawyer corporate group has left Morris, Manning & Martin for Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice.
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January 27, 2000 | Law.com

Election-Year Politics May Bar Securities Issues From Being Addressed

As members of the House of Representatives and the Senate trickle back into Washington, it is time to ponder what may happen with securities industry-related issues in the second session of the 106th Congress. Capitol Hill spinmeisters are already suggesting it will be a busy year. However, with the New Hampshire primaries following right behind the Iowa caucus, and continued Republican control of the House in jeopardy, it is hard to imagine the nation's lawmakers focusing on issues rather than elections.
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Yahoo Succeeds Where Google Failed in East Texas Patent Trial
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Following Google's $5 million patent trial loss last month to Bedrock Computer Technology, it took a jury in the same Tyler, Texas courtroom just 40 minutes to reach a verdict of non-infringement on Tuesday in Bedrock's case against Yahoo over the same patent.

October 14, 2005 | New York Law Journal

United States, appellee v. Felix Valdez, defendant-appellant

�Crosby� Resentencing Granted Despite Rejected Claim That Mental Disability Left Appellant Subject to Control
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April 23, 2002 | Law.com

EBay's Risky Bid

There was a time when eBay looked the other way when fraud took place on its Web site. But when traffic mushroomed from 2.2 million users in 1998 to 42.4 million in 2001, eBay had to rethink that strategy. The spike in users brought an influx of less-than-honest bidders and sellers. To protect its profits and ward off costly lawsuits, eBay switched from a "hands-off" to a "hands-on" legal strategy.
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April 25, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Overexposed

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March 13, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Generous pension plans are becoming a heavy burden

Editor's note: This analysis of law firms' pension plans was conducted by and written for The American Lawyer, a Daily Report affiliate. It's a safe bet that partners at New York-based Simpson Thacher Bartlett aren't lying awake at night worrying about their 401ks. No matter what happens to the stock market, they're guaranteed to retire rich, thanks to the firm's pension plan.
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May 24, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Academy Award Winner Commits Suicide Before NY Sex Assault Trial

The Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life" was found dead of an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women and just months after his son was accused of murdering a swimsuit designer.
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February 12, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Buyout-boom shakeout seen leaving one in four to starve

Private equity, an investing trade plied by 4,500 firms with $3 trillion in assets, is bracing for a shakeout that's been brewing since the collapse of credit markets choked off a record leveraged-buyout binge.
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December 12, 2002 | Law.com

No Confidence

The practice of business law is on the verge of enormous, fundamental change. Not only are there ABA task force proposals, there's also a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to be reckoned with. Pressure to keep clients happy and the cozy relationships that are often developed with powerful CEOs remain ever-present dangers. Corporate lawyers need to constantly remind themselves that they have a duty to truth and morality.
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