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Long-Running LCD Class Antitrust Litigation Winds Down, with $1.1 Billion in Sight
Publication Date: 2012-07-13
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This billion-dollar recovery for indirect purchasers of LCD panels, if approved by San Francisco U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, will likely lead to some big fees for the plaintiffs lawyers. In a separate case brought by different counsel on behalf of direct purchasers, Illston approved a 30 percent fee, for a total of $121 million.

February 28, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyer-Lobbyists Outpace Industry Competitors

Revenues for New Jersey's swarm of lobbyists fell for the first time in recent memory last year, but law firms that dabble in the industry generally made out better than their competitors.
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July 26, 1999 | Law.com

An insanely great post-associate job

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Congress Takes Aim at 'Patent Trolls' With SHIELD Act
Publication Date: 2012-08-03
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The bill, dubbed the Saving High-tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes (SHIELD) Act, would require non-practicing entities (aka patent trolls) to pay defendants' legal costs if the suit is unsuccessful.

January 30, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Early 1900s: A Society in Flux

The Law Journal editors joined in the hue and cry against the unbridled growth of trusts, calling for legislation regulating the formation and operation of corporate combinations. New Jersey was, due to its peculiarly lax corporation laws, a beckoning home to corporate trusts.
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January 27, 2010 | Law.com

First-Year Associates Dish About New TV Series 'The Deep End'

ABC's new lawyer drama, "The Deep End," which focuses on four first-year associates, premiered last week. Texas Lawyer asked five real first-years their opinions on the new show, which is filmed in Dallas. One thing they all agreed on: the show's lack of realism. First-year Benjamin Garry said among the most unrealistic parts of the show were "the unmitigated sexual harassment and the direct and repeated conflicts of interest that no one seemed to care about. Also, no one ever sends me a cupcake basket."
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November 09, 1999 | Law.com

What Lawyers Like: Mediation

Lawyers who champion alternative dispute resolution increasingly prefer mediation to arbitration, according to a survey of leading litigators and general counsel conducted by The National Law Journal and the American Arbitration Association (AAA). Overall, 69% of litigators and 88% of in-house counsel who responded to the survey say they prefer nonbinding mediation to binding arbitration. By contrast, only 25% of the litigators and 9% of the corporate counsel say they prefer arbitration.
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August 02, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

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March 10, 2000 | Law.com

Big Tobacco's Sweet Deal Goes Sour

When cigarette-makers settled a class action suit two years ago filed on behalf of airline flight attendants who claimed to be victims of secondhand smoke, it looked as if Big Tobacco had gotten off easy. The deal would provide $300 million in funding for research into secondhand smoke. But the flight attendants got nothing. What the industry didn't bank on at the time was the half-dozen tenacious lawyers who would pick up the fight for individual damage awards for the flight attendants.
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December 29, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Old Faces Fade, New Ones Battle

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