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August 31, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Gonzales talks about his time with Bush, teaching

This month marked former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' formal return to Texas, when he officially began his tenure as a visiting professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.On Aug. 6, Gonzales launched his university career when he moved into a bare-walled office in the Tech president's wing of the school administration building.
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March 07, 2003 | New York Law Journal

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February 24, 2000 | Law.com

Court Decisions

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November 13, 2009 | Law.com

Sept. 11 Mastermind, Four Other Detainees to Face Death Penalty in New York Trial

Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a civilian U.S. courthouse in New York, near the site of the devastating 2001 terror attacks. Prosecutors expect to seek the death penalty. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the long-awaited and politically fraught decision at a news conference Friday. He also said five other Guantanamo detainees will be tried through the military commission process.
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December 11, 2006 | Law.com

Qualcomm Faces Hard 'Cell' in Battle Over Phone Royalties

Like two superpowers that cooperate while eyeing each other warily, Nokia and Qualcomm have forged an uneasy alliance. Qualcomm has long reigned over the cell phone industry, licensing out patents underlying the two main industry standards. But Nokia thinks it's time to renegotiate, and the detente has reached a breaking point. Observers have called the maze of legal disputes a "holy war," and some of the biggest names in the legal business are involved, with stakes containing a dizzying number of zeroes.
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November 25, 2003 | Law.com

In the Box

The crown jewel of Fort Irwin's National Training Center is a 1,000-square-mile block of land so barren that fighter jets can drop live bombs, so remote that soldiers can fire live ammunition. Army insiders refer to the immense training ground simply as "the box" -- and Army judge advocates are among the soldiers training there. The decision to include JAGs in intense combat training demonstrates the growing role of military lawyers in modern warfare.
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February 02, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Relief and Some Regret Greet Anticipated Move of 9/11 Trial

Judges, attorneys and court personnel at the Southern District courthouse at 500 Pearl St. reacted with relief, and also regret, now that it appears the trial of accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants will not be held in lower Manhattan.
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September 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

With Fall Upon Us, It's Time for a Fresh Law Firm Lawsuit-Palooza

The Am Law Daily's latest round-up of litigation involving law firms as either plaintiffs or defendants finds Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton facing a pair of personal injury suits related to construction at its New York headquarters; Barnes & Thornburg fending off a complaint brought by investors in an allegedly fraudulent fund; and Ropes & Gray successfully keeping a batch of responses in a racial bias suit under seal.
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August 29, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Government Lawyers for Hire

At a time when business lobbyists in Washington have engineered remarkable victories with policy-makers in Congress � such as this year's class-action reform and bankruptcy legislation � corporate interests are also lining up regulatory expertise with Washington, D.C. lawyers who know the agencies, the rules and the players.
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October 24, 2003 | Law.com

Odds Are Not Good for a Malvo Insanity Plea

The insanity defense worked for would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. It worked for Lorena Bobbitt, who cut off her husband's penis. It even worked for Dan White, whose lawyers invoked the infamous "Twinkie defense" at his trial for killing San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk. And now defense attorneys for teen sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo are hoping the insanity defense will work for their client, too. The chances of success, though, are slim.
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