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By Rebecca Cohen | September 6, 2017
Ellisen Turner has been named the next managing partner of Irell & Manella as the Los Angeles-based firm's current leader, Andrei Iancu, was recently nominated to head the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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By Lizzy McLellan | September 6, 2017
When Philadelphia-based Ballard Spahr and Saul Ewing (now Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr) both announced significant mergers Tuesday with Midwestern firms of about 150 lawyers, the deals had more in common than timing and geography. Both highlight themes that have been propelling widespread consolidation in the industry, observers said.
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By Christine Simmons | September 6, 2017
Deborah Farone, the longtime chief marketing director of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, is leaving to open her own marketing consultancy for law firms and other professional service providers.
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By Stephen A. Miller | September 6, 2017
The Supreme Court will spring back into action next month. No more limping forward while awaiting a full bench. Instead, the court will open its new term with the full complement of nine justices and dive into a blockbuster slate of oral arguments: travel ban, political gerrymandering, fundamental questions of criminal law, etc.
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By ALM STAFF | September 6, 2017
We asked lawyers who'd been through Hurricane Andrew 25 years ago what lessons they learned about the impact to their practices and how changes in technology could blunt Hurricane Irma's impact.
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By Max Mitchell | September 6, 2017
Evidence that members of a group conducted election-related violence and showed "tacit support for radical Islam" are not enough to establish that the group is a low-level terrorist organization whose members must be deported, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled.
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By Meredith Hobbs | September 6, 2017
IP boutique Meunier Carlin & Curfman has added two patent lawyers from a pair of big firms in town. Chris Glass, who was at Troutman Sanders, joins as of counsel, and Jason Huff joins as an associate from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton.
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By Jonathan Ringel | September 6, 2017
A federal appeals panel rejected an appeal by a man caught with nearly eight kilograms of cocaine at the Miami airport but suggested the defendant had a valid complaint about one aspect of his trial.
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By John Council | September 6, 2017
In an important personal bankruptcy decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that once a Chapter 7 debtor claims an exemption for their individual retirement account, a trustee is not allowed to claim that money — even if the debtor cashes out their IRA during the bankruptcy.
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By Monika Gonzalez Mesa | September 6, 2017
South Florida law firms were closely monitoring Hurricane Irma Wednesday.
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