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September 30, 2009 | The American Lawyer

The Leader Board

These are the Global 100 firms with the largest number of lawyers outside their home countries. RPL and PPP statistics are for each firm's most recent fiscal year. The "CAGR RPL" and "CAGR PPP" numbers represent each firm's compound annual growth rate in revenue per lawyer and profits per partner, respectively, over the past five years. The first number in the "Foreign Presence" column is the number of lawyers the firm has outside its home country; the second is the percentage of lawyers outside the home country. For statistics on additional firms, see americanlawyer.com.
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September 03, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

Understand Predictive Coding Options

Recent cases have thrust predictive coding, also referred to as computer-assisted review, into the spotlight. Reading the recent case law alone, however, will not teach in-house counsel how to evaluate whether and how to use predictive coding.
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December 08, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

Attempts To Expand Public Nuisance Laws To Reach Products

The current fad in high-profile products litigation involves suits by government entities to recover public expenditures from product manufacturers. Thus far, those suits have focused on various allegedly "bad" (although legal) products that the government claims has contributed to public nuisances, increasing costs for such public services as medical care, police patrols, insurance and criminal prosecutions.
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September 21, 2009 | Law.com

Plaintiffs Groups Mount Effort to Undo Supreme Court's 'Iqbal' Ruling

On May 18, the U.S. Supreme Court gave corporate defendants a gift that keeps on giving: the Iqbal decision, which has made it easier than ever for defendants to shut down lawsuits before they get to the costly discovery stage. Now, four months later, civil rights and consumer groups and trial lawyers are beginning to push back. They met last week in Washington, D.C., to lay plans for a two-pronged battle to undo what they see as a devastating blow to their lifeblood litigation.
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August 03, 2011 | Daily Business Review

ADP estimates U.S. companies added 114,000 workers in July

A slowdown in hiring means consumers are unlikely to boost the spending that fuels 70 percent of the economy, raising the risk the recovery may stumble.
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February 23, 2007 | New York Law Journal

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April 30, 2001 | Law.com

Trade Secrets Suit Against Disney, ABC Gets Second Life

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a 1998 verdict against ABC Radio Networks Inc. and Walt Disney Co. for misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract, finding the trial court erred in throwing out the $40 million judgment. Children's Broadcasting Corp. had accused ABC of breaching a contract to combine forces to establish a national network of radio stations providing children's programming.
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February 20, 2004 | Law.com

The S&L Payouts That Never Came

When Charles Cooper argued and won United States v. Winstar at the Supreme Court, plaintiffs lawyers thought thrifts and investors would recover billions of dollars. The landmark 1996 ruling found the government liable for breaking contracts with savings and loan associations as regulators tried to avert the 1980s S&L fiasco. But so far, actual damage awards have fallen far short of what everyone -- even the government -- anticipated.
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October 13, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Attempts to Expand Public Nuisance Laws to Reach Products

It is shortsighted to seek to apply public nuisance law to products. Injuries caused by products are properly addressed through other tort law.
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February 22, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Important Issues Percolate in Bankruptcy Appeals

As a wave of bankruptcy filings makes its way through the courts, unresolved questions that will significantly affect future consumer and business bankruptcies are bubbling up in appeals to the district and circuit appellate courts.
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