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October 10, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Near-recusal for Justice Breyer

IN HIS FINANCIAL disclosure form for the year 2005, Justice Stephen Breyer reported that he owned up to $50,000 of common stock in Duke Energy Corp., which supplies power to more than 2 million people in North and South Carolina. Duke Energy also is the respondent in a major environmental case set for argument Nov. 1, Environmental Defense v.
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April 26, 2010 | National Law Journal

Cutthroat associate market

The market may be warming to the idea of hiring associates, but it's still not easy for young lawyers to land a job these days. The prevailing view is that the job market is better, but remains vastly changed from prerecession times.
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June 24, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Georgians teaching Georgians

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December 29, 2008 | The Recorder

Tech Amici Target High IP Damages

Oracle, Apple, Yahoo, Intel and others are intervening in a Microsoft case to argue that when only a minor aspect of a product infringes a patent, damages should reflect that.
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March 23, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Court Addresses Materiality Standard Under Federal Securities Law

In the latest installment of their Second Circuit Review, Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp, members of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, analyze a recent decision contrary to the recent judicial trend of applying greater scrutiny to class action complaints, which will likely increase efforts by plaintiffs to devise arguments focused on qualitative factors and business segment-level significance.
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September 04, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Midsized Firms Can Offer Added Value

Upon returning from vacation and catching up on my reading, a front page article in a recent edition of The Legal Intelligencer caught my eye. "Years Show Dramatic Changes to Pa. Midsized Firm Landscape," which appeared Aug. 11, compared PaLaw magazine's 1994 and 2007 lists of the commonwealth's largest firms. The article noted that over that period, many firms merged, downsized or went out of existence. It implied that size, not management or other factors, had resulted in the demise of some firms or the search for merger partners or suitors. The article included comments suggesting that midsized firms will be rendered "irrelevant" and "smaller firms and bigger firms are the future." As a partner in a midsized (43 attorneys) firm that I joined 31 years ago, this article held more than a passing interest.
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September 27, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

Commentary: Interview Strategies — What Questions Should You Ask?

If done correctly, an interview will provide an opportunity for the prospective employer and the candidate to learn more about each other. Therefore, questions asked by the candidate are just as important as those asked by the interviewer. Besides eliciting information about the position and the law firm, you need to determine whether this is the right career move for you given your goals. Good questions demonstrate your interest and insight and can increase your chances of getting an offer.
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May 18, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Overwhelming Proof Justifies Suspension, Panel Finds

Thomas F. Cusack III was found to have "abdicated control" of his escrow account, let a paralegal handle a real estate closing on his behalf and allowed clients to improperly influence his professional judgment.
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October 22, 2003 | Law.com

Lawyer Vivian Hannawalt, 72, Graduated Stanford Law in '50s

Vivian Chaya Hannawalt, a longtime BART in-house attorney and one of the few women to graduate from Stanford Law School in the 1950s, died Monday after battling cancer. She was 72. "She was one of the few women who passed the bar" in 1956, said Hannawalt's son, James. The State Farm in-house attorney recalled that these early accomplishments generated a newspaper story. "She was always proud that she was able to do that."
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April 16, 2009 | The Recorder

S.F.: Not So Shabby

A Hildebrandt study shows San Francisco billing for the first quarter of the year is slightly down, but faring much better than New York, L.A. or the nation as a whole. Sheppard, Mullin Chairman Guy Halgren says things are pretty good by the Bay.
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