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June 21, 1999 | Law.com

Arbitration is No Simple Matter

The arbitration clause in Rafael Crespo's employment contract was just that--a clause, short and sweet. And that was its undoing. Mr. Crespo was a building supervisor until the building owners fired him in 1995. He wanted to sue them, but his bosses insisted that he was barred by a clause his union had negotiated saying that all differences over the application or performance of any part of the contract must go to binding arbitration. His attorneys responded that the simple reference to all differences
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December 10, 2003 | New York Law Journal

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October 29, 2009 | Law.com

'Iqbal' Fails to Find Fan Base at House Judiciary Committee Hearing

The House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday on the outsize effect the U.S. Supreme Court's Ashcroft v. Iqbal ruling has had on civil litigation. The ruling, which requires plaintiffs to plead specific factual allegations in their complaints, has already been cited in almost 3,000 lower court rulings in just five months on the books. Only one witness, former DOJ Civil Division Assistant AG Gregory Katsas, defended the ruling as "consistent with the vast bulk of prior precedent."
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April 20, 2006 | New York Law Journal

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August 10, 2009 | Law.com

Senate Confirms Legal Nominees, but Not the Biggest Ones

The confirmation of incoming Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has broken a logjam of presidential nominees for other legal posts. But the highest-level nominees -- three circuit court nominees and four nominees for assistant attorney general positions -- will likely be waiting at least another month.
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February 04, 2013 | National Law Journal

House GOP gearing up for Obama probes

There were surprisingly few large-scale congressional investigations during 2012, at least for an election year. But experts expect that to change.
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April 19, 2004 | Law.com

Fear of Hostile Juries One Reason Firms Tend to Settle

Whatever advice they may give their clients about litigation, major law firms tend to follow the same strategy whenever they themselves are dragged into court: They settle. Within the past six weeks, two major firms have coughed up tens of millions of dollars to put significant lawsuits to rest. Virtually all major law firms that have been sued in the past two decades have settled their cases. Most believe both that juries would be unsympathetic to them and that a trial would be damaging to their practices.
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July 01, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Playing 3-D Chess

In many of the biggest disputes from our 2009 Arbitration Scorecard, one battleground isn't enough.
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June 21, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Expanding Criminal Discovery Responsibly

Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the New York County District Attorney, writes: In many cases in Manhattan and all over our state, witnesses are frightened, asked to lie, or asked to tailor their accounts so as to minimize their impact on the defendant at trial, and that is only for those who come forward at all. These problems provide a crucial backdrop to the current debate over expanding criminal discovery.
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January 05, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

From Fumo to F-Bombs, a Colorful Year at Federal Court

The cursing client who couldn't be controlled, the trespassing teens atop the trains, the phenomenal fees for the Fen-Phen lawyers and the sitting state senator on trial. Those were some of the more colorful subjects in the headlines of 2008 generated by cases in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania federal court.
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