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December 28, 2006 | Law.com

Calif. Court Slashes $18.5M Verdict in McKesson Disability Firing

Citing a lack of evidence and recent limits on punitive damages, a California court of appeal panel filleted an $18.5 million award in a psychiatric disability case against McKesson and a supervisor on Tuesday. The court halved the compensatory award and slashed the punitive damages award, leaving a total of about $4.1 million. The former customer service agent had alleged discrimination and harassment after she was fired for missing work; the appellate court found the harassment verdict unsupported.
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December 03, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Charges Dropped Against Lawyer Who Brought Gun To Batman Movie

Authorities have dismissed charges against a Connecticut attorney arrested in August for bringing handgun to a movie theater showing the Batman film.
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September 01, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Rivals Vet a Better Mousetrap

The PTO has expanded its peer review program. Could it become a new paradigm for all U.S. patent examination?
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March 27, 2003 | New York Law Journal

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April 10, 2006 | Law.com

17-Year-Old Trespassers May Use Attractive Nuisance Argument

Although the attractive nuisance theory of liability is most often applied to young children who suffer injuries while trespassing, a federal judge has ruled that it may also be used by two 17-year-old boys who suffered serious burns from catenary wires when they climbed atop a parked railroad car.
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January 12, 2000 | Law.com

With Technology, Complications

Perkins Coie associate Nicole Wong recalls a call from a client who had just discovered his Internet start-up could accommodate online banking. In a rush, the entrepreneur announced his site would launch banking services the next day -- unless Wong saw any problems. Her client gave up the idea. But Wong and other lawyers are increasingly pushing existing legal boundaries as cutting-edge clients create deals, content and new technology that revolutionizes the way industries do business.
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March 13, 2006 | Daily Report Online

United's bankruptcy tab: $335 million-plus

By Dave Carpenter, Associated Press writerUnited Airlines' three-year bankruptcy restructuring, the largest and longest in the industry's history, will end up costing the carrier more than $335 million in fees to lawyers and consultants, court documents show.The fees include $99.8 million charged by the airline's lead law firm during the 38-month process, Chicago-based Kirkland Ellis LLC, pending formal approval by U.
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September 10, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Latham, Gardere Grab Roles on BP's Gulf of Mexico Asset Sale

The London-based energy giant has agreed to sell some of its deepwater oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico to Houston-based Plains Exploration and Production in a nearly $5.6 billion deal, landing lead roles for Latham & Watkins and Gardere Wynne Sewell. The sale is the latest in a string of major oil and gas transactions yielding work for corporate lawyers around the globe.
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June 02, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

Estate Planning Sites Abound On the Web

If the only certainties in life are death and taxes, then it is easy to understand the value of an estate planning lawyer, whose job it is to apply the laws governing both.
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October 05, 2006 | Law.com

Apple Presents Stock Option Findings to Feds

One day before Apple Computer publicly announced results of an internal investigation over stock option backdating, the company's lawyers held a meeting with federal prosecutors in San Francisco to spell out what they'd found. The company revealed Wednesday that 15 option awards between 1997 and 2002 "appear to have grant dates that precede the approval of those grants," and that CEO Steve Jobs apparently "was aware that favorable grant dates had been selected" but didn't personally benefit.
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