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June 16, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Three lawyers in hot water over billing discrepancies

Within the last month, three criminal defense lawyers have needed their own representation to face accusations about overbilling and other alleged improprieties from their work as appointed counsel for indigent defendants.On May 12, a Gwinnett County grand jury indicted Lawrenceville solo practitioner Christopher T. Adams on 35 counts of theft, criminal solicitation and making false statements.
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April 07, 2008 | The Recorder

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Fenwick & West founding father William Fenwick starts a Zen-ful blog. . . . Irell & Manella's O.C. office gets its first female managing partner.
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August 30, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Rules Attorney Not Slandered During Private Meeting

A Philadelphia judge ruled that an attorney was not slandered when opposing counsel said he was trying to extort his clients during a private meeting.
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May 03, 2010 | National Law Journal

Prejudiced toward pretty

Adverse treatment based on physical characteristics reinforces invidious stereotypes and compromises merit principles.
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April 12, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Revealing Your Client's 'Guilt' When He Sues You

In his Ethics and Criminal Practice column, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan's Joel Cohen, writes: You litigated your heart out for a client whom you relentlessly claimed to be innocent. But despite your Herculean efforts, the jury simply didn't buy the alibi so poignantly delivered at trial by his girlfriend. After two years in prison, for a variety of reasons largely arising from incorrect rulings by the trial judge, the client gains a reversal, and then decides to sue you for legal malpractice.
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October 04, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Stepson Not Liable for Stepfather's Injury in Delaware Co.

In Delaware County, a jury has found a man not liable for an accident that resulted in the near-loss of his stepfather's nose.
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August 21, 2006 | National Law Journal

Simple Steps to Success

As we all know, law firms are constantly courting in-house counsel, in search of new business. Unfortunately for most of them, in-house counsel usually have a favorite firm (or firms) with which they like to work. Thus, getting a foot in the door is not easy.
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July 24, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Corbett Names Deputy GC, Former Cozen Counsel, as New GC

Governor Tom Corbett has filled the state's vacant general counsel position left empty when Stephen S. Aichele was elevated to Corbett's chief of staff.
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March 15, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Hopwood Hurts Morales

After former Attorney General Dan Morales jumped into the governor`s race against billionaire businessman Tony Sanchez of Laredo, the inevitable happened at the ballot box - Democrats and Hispanic voters turned out in droves. The only aspect of the race that was uncalculated was just how badly Morales would lose this battle for the emerging Hispanic vote in Texas. Sanchez used his nearly unlimited personal wealth to get his message out and brush Morales aside, experts say.
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November 01, 2005 | Law.com

Going Once

Are high-profile patent auctions the beginning of a new era in intellectual asset management�or the inflated peak of the fledgling IP prospecting sector?
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