• April 19, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Orbit

    In March, the CERN Supercollider made history. Proton beams were fired into each other by scientists hoping to find exotic particles from the first moments of the universe. Twenty-fiv

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  • November 13, 2006 | National Law Journal

    'NLJ 250' Shows Strong Law Firm Growth Continuing

    The nation's largest 250 law firms grew by 4 percent in 2006, a figure that was just shy of last year's gains but still reflected a sound legal economy.The results of the 2006 NLJ 250, Th

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  • December 1, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    Team Players

    Ordinarily, the public hears Lanny Davis interpreting someone else's crisis. Instead, this fall the one-time scandal manager for former president Bill Clinton has been sweating through an imbr

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  • March 7, 2005 | The Recorder

    Calif. Supremes Toss Varian Verdict, Order New Trial

    California's anti-SLAPP statute got a boost from the state Supreme Court on Thursday when justices decided that appeals based on the landmark First Amendment law must be decided before a case

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  • February 18, 2003 | The Recorder

    Quiet End as Brobeck Shuts Its Doors

    Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison quietly trudged through its final day Friday with departing lawyers setting up shop at new firms and glum staffers simply hoping they would get paid for their u

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  • March 2, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Little-Noticed SOX Provision Gains Traction

    Two-and-a-half years after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a little noticed provision on whistleblowing is gaining traction.Within the sweeping corporate governance measures int

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  • March 12, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firm Roundup

    SonicBlue Case Costs Pillsbury $10 Million Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has reached a $10 million settlement in a malpractice dispute with bankrupt clien

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  • January 23, 2002 | The Recorder

    Enron Mess Gives a Boost to MDP Foes

    The controversy over Arthur Andersen's handling of Enron Corp.'s books may not only stain the accounting giant's reputation, but could be a fatal blow to a marriage between the accountin

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  • July 20, 2005 | The Recorder

    Orders in the Court

    When U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White recently fined attorneys for violating his standing orders, the reaction around the courthouse ran from they-shoulda-known-better to eye-rolling over the

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  • March 2, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Top Law Firms Undergo a Rainbow Revolution

    In his famous dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Texas's same-sex sodomy law, Antonin Scalia railed against the legal profession for embracin

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