• November 1, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

    IP People on the Move

    The new GC of Facebook, Inc., Theodore Ullyot, may not be getting a slew of "friend requests" on the popular social networking Web site. Scores of Silicon Valley attorneys wanted the plum spot. And

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  • January 23, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Venable partner recalls emergency landing in Hudson River

    For James Hanks Jr., it's been an eventful week. It started with a dip in the frigid Hudson River Jan. 15 for the 65-year-old Ven

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  • January 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Twitter's Hard Lesson

    Twitter has been in the news recently for its efforts to protect the term "tweet" as a trademark in the face of uses of the word by a number of companies offering complementary services i

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  • June 26, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Pipeline Ruling Gives Attorneys Guidance on FERC Reviews

    Energy and environmental lawyers across the state said a recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit allowing the construction of a 39-mile long, 30-inch wide natural ga

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  • September 9, 2013 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF: Victor Jara's Kin File Suit

    A former lieutenant in the regime of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet faces a lawsuit in Florida federal court in the abduction, torture and killing of renowned folk singer and political act

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  • Yaquinto v. Segerstrom

    Publication Date: 2001-04-02
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    Date Filed: 2001-03-30
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Benavides, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 00-10216

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of TexasRobert Yaquinto, Jr., as trustee of Kayla Segerstrom's Chapter 7 bankruptcy estate, appeals from a summary judgment in

  • Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma v. Tyson Foods, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-05-15
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    Date Filed: 2009-05-13
    Court: 10th Cir.
    Judge: Kelly, Circuit Judge.
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 08-5154

    PUBLISHBefore KELLY, EBEL, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.This is an interlocutory appeal of the district court's denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction. See Okla. ex rel. Edmondson v. Tyso

  • June 14, 1999 | The Recorder

    DuPont Suits Surface Again

    For years, DuPont steadfastly maintained that its fungicide Benlate was not contaminated with an herbicide. In the early 1990s, the chemical giant began settling cases, without admitting guilt and

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  • April 24, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Ready or Not

    When Hurricane Andrew blew away Robert Zinn's car dealership in 1992, he decided it was time to put his degree from Cornell Law School to full-time use. Fourteen years later, as the chie

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  • August 26, 2013 | National Law Journal

    VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

    BANKING $730M Citi Settlement NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York on August 20 approved Citigroup Inc.'s $730 million settlem

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