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June 28, 1999 | Law.com

Business: Friend of The Court

Fed up with an onslaught of job discrimination suits against its 160,000-plus members, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce set out two years ago to even the score through a strategic campaign waged in appellate courts and legislatures around the country. Those efforts started to bear judicial fruit last week when a Supreme Court majority took a page from the business group9s friend of the court brief and made it more difficult for workers to wrest punitive damages from errant employers.
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November 19, 2007 | Law.com

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December 08, 2009 | National Law Journal

Justices seem skeptical of 'honest services'

U.S. Supreme Court justices of all stripes appeared sharply critical on Tuesday of the federal law that makes it a crime to "deprive another of honest services," leaving the often-used prosecutorial tool in serious doubt.
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April 06, 2007 | Law.com

Judge Stops Fee Pacts in Lead Paint Suit

In what could lead to a major setback for affirmative litigation in California, a Santa Clara County judge has told several cities and counties they can't contract with private lawyers on a contingency basis in their nuisance suit against lead paint manufacturers. The ruling by Judge Jack Komar says lawyers for the government are supposed to be neutral, a stance that's not possible when a contingency fee is riding on the outcome of their efforts.
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November 23, 2009 | The Recorder

Levi's Deal Underscores Growth of Alternative Billing

Orrick partner Karen Johnson-McKewan got Levi Strauss to turn over all its legal work in exchange for a multimillion-dollar fixed-fee arrangement. Has alternative billing finally taken off?
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June 05, 2006 | Law.com

Mintz Levin Opens New Office With 12 Attorneys From Fish & Richardson

In a continued push into the California market, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo has snagged its second big catch in two months and opened a new office in San Diego. The Boston-based firm acquired 12 attorneys from IP boutique Fish & Richardson, including its corporate and securities head and the managing partner of its San Diego office. The move comes on the heels of Mintz Levin's entry into Palo Alto, where it opened an office with lawyers from the Reed Intellectual Property Law Group.
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June 22, 1999 | Law.com

Growth, Billion-Dollar Cases Make '98 a Thoroughbred Year

12 Georgia-based firms produced revenue in excess of the value of the gross domestic product in at least 22 countries, according to statistics from the Information Please Almanac Web site at Infoplease.com.
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February 02, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Ex-Judge's Straight-Shooter Image Is Reinforced by His Oral Record

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March 11, 2010 | The Recorder

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September 23, 2010 | Law.com

Year 18 of Ecuador vs. Chevron Pollution Dispute

On Friday, Ecuadorean Judge Leonardo Ordonez, who currently presides over the case where indigenous plaintiffs seek to hold Chevron Corp. liable for pollution of the Amazon River Basin, closed the evidentiary phase of the trial, as plaintiffs released a new damages recommendation of $90 billion to $113 billion. Chevron has sought to discredit the damages figure previously embraced by plaintiffs -- up to $27 billion -- by attacking the credibility of the court-appointed expert who recommended the figure.
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