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April 07, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

Going Wireless on the Web

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October 14, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Postscript to 'Morrison v. National Australia Bank'

George T. Conway III, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, writes that for four decades, the Second Circuit's case law on the territorial scope of §10(b) traveled on a collision course with the Supreme Court. The holding in Morrison v. National Australia Bank was inevitable, and attempts to get around that ruling, the most creative of which is becoming known as the "listed securities" theory, must fail as well.
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May 17, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

Newsmakers

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November 08, 2005 | Law.com

High Court to Hear Challenge to Terror Tribunals

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the legality of military commissions created by the Bush administration to try suspected terrorists for war crimes. Human rights advocates say the international law and separation of powers issues the Court will confront in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld are critically important -- and could bear directly on the habeas corpus claims of hundreds of detainees being held at the U.S. naval base at Guant�namo Bay.
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July 25, 2011 | Law.com

Ex-Senator's Criticism of Counsel in Effort to Upset Plea Rebuffed

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the conviction of Efraim Gonzalez Jr. for using public money for personal purposes, rejecting Mr. Gonzalez's contention that he was not properly apprised by Bronx defense attorney Murray Richman of the ramifications of the guilty plea he entered in 2009.
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November 28, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Deep Counsel Roster Helped MLB Reach Peace With Players

It turns out that labor peace in a major U.S. professional sports league can be achieved without lockouts or litigation.
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September 09, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

Suits & Deals

Large settlements and verdicts in New Jersey.
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June 29, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Loan-Modification Work May Flout Ethics Rules, Court Panels Warn

Attorney who represent customers of mortgage-modification companies — increasingly attractive work these days — are at risk of losing their law licenses if they split fees with the financiers, two Supreme Court committees say in a joint ethics opinion.
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September 23, 2002 | Law.com

Our First-Year Angst

It's not just the new students who need to find their way in law school. After her rookie season as a Howard University School of Law professor, Aminata Ipyana recalls an experience in which her very inexperience was the problem -- without meaning to, she made a student cry. But the silver lining is that, since that incident, she's never forgotten what it's like to be new and nervous.
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August 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Sharp Increase in Criminal Cases But Little Variation in Affirmance Rates

Paul Shechtman, a partner at Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman, writes that the 2009-2010 term fulfilled Chief Judge Lippman's promise: the Court heard more criminal cases than in any year in the past decade, and ruled on topics such as the Confrontation Clause, collateral consequences of guilty pleas and televised testimony.
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