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August 01, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

In a Corporate Crisis, There's a Need for Speed

In too many instances, a company and its senior advisors can't get their crisis-communications act together quickly enough to respond. And without a doubt, it is the speed and coordination of response that makes the difference in effectively managing communications when a crisis hits.
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December 18, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Is justice for sale in Georgia

JUST HOW MUCH does a Georgia Supreme Court justice go for these days Is $3 million enough Hopefully not. In 2004, state judicial candidates across America raised a record $46.8 million-more than double the amount in 1994. But the cost of running for a state Supreme Court seat isn't the most troubling issue.
4 minute read
July 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

V&E raises associate salaries in Texas and D.C.

Vinson & Elkins this week became the first Texas-based firm to increase Texas associate salaries to match the raises doled out by New York-based firms. The firm also raised salaries in its Washington, D.C., office. Starting in their third year, however, V&E associates will be ineligible for a portion of the raises unless they work 2,000 hours. Managing partner Joe Dilg says the novel pay structure is the result of input by associates, who didn't necessarily want the pressure linked to the New York market.
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March 29, 2007 | Law.com

Backdating Plaintiffs Win Early Rounds

Recent rulings have carved out a victorious first round for civil plaintiffs in stock-options backdating cases after judges refused to dismiss four of their suits. At issue in most of the cases was whether plaintiff shareholders should have demanded books and records from the companies' boards of directors before filing their lawsuits. Some of the plaintiffs successfully pleaded "demand futility" by showing that directors were not objective or that their acts were not of sound "business judgment."
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March 03, 2009 | The Recorder

Women Outnumbered

Exhibits: Women make up half the population in California, but it's rare that they make up that much of the state's benches.
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February 27, 2006 | National Law Journal

Bad Attitude: WilmerHale Dragged into Accounting Scandal

The outside report on the accounting scandal at mortgage giant Fannie Mae didn't paint a flattering picture of WilmerHale's legal advice to the company.
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July 11, 2002 | New York Law Journal

Judge Upholds Detention Of Grand Jury Witnesses

By Mark Hamblett IT DID NOT take long for a split to develop over the constitutionality of a critical tool for investigators probing the Sept. 11 terror attacks the detention of potential grand jury witnesses under the federal material witness statute.
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October 12, 2011 | National Law Journal

Kagan bows out of 66 cases in new term

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's prior position as U.S. solicitor general continues to prompt her to recuse herself in individual cases as she begins her second term on the Court.
4 minute read
March 29, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Bogoni v. Gomez

Partition, Judicial Sale of Co-op Denied Amid Constructive Trust Allegations
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May 24, 2000 | Law.com

Time-Barred Claim Leads to Sanction

Sanctions imposed on two lawyers and their clients because the clients gave false affidavits in an authorship dispute over the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" were upheld by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court let stand a decision ordering attorneys Mitchell A. Stein and Stephen J. King to pay $15,000 to help "defray fees generated by their unreasonable conduct."
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