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  • January 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Apocalypse Now: Looking Back at 2009

    The winner of this venerable award sits at the intersection of so many of the year's trends: The rise of Weil, the fall of Leh­man, the ubiquity of bankruptcy.

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  • July 14, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Wisconsin High Court Limits Lead Paint Claims

    Two years after the city of Milwaukee lost a major test-case public nuisance suit against lead pigment manufacturers, the Wisconsin high court has partially sided with defendants again. The Wisconsin

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  • Souliotes v. Evans

    Publication Date: 2010-09-20
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    Date Filed: 2010-09-20
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall S. Luskey, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner-appellant.
    for defendant: Kathleen A. McKenna, Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of California, Fresno, California, for the respondents-appellees. Sheryl Gordon McCloud, Law Offices of Sheryl Gordon McCloud, Seattle, Washington; Bob Barr, Atlanta, Georgia; Matthew D. Brown, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, San Francisco, California, for the amici.
    Case Number: No. 08-15943

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 12201GEORGE SOULIOTES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. MIKE EVANS, Warden; ANTHONY HEDGPETH, Warde

  • March 6, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Dechert Partner Explains Why Whole Foods Settled Antitrust Case

    As of last December, high-end grocery chain Whole Foods had spent $16 million defending its 2007 merger with Wild Oats Markets, which the Federal Trade Commission protested on antitrust grounds. Whole

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  • December 20, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Litigation Department of the Year - Anton Valukas

    The Jenner & Block chairman and Lehman bankruptcy examiner talks about the regulatory problems that still exist in the financial industry--nearly three years after he filed his exhausti

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  • September 28, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

    2009 Ineligible List

    Attorney Ineligibility Order Pursuant to Rule 1:28-2(a) SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY Pursuant to Rule 1:28-2, the Trustees of the New Jersey Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection (Fund

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  • People v Hill

    Publication Date: 2008-01-22
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    Court: Appellate Division, 2nd Dept
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    Case Number: 1996-10193

    Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department PETER B. SKELOS, J.P. FRED T. SANTUCCI ROBERT A. LIFSON EDWARD D. C

  • June 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    A Chasm With Consequences

    Let's start with one fact: There is now a $1.1 million gap between the average profits per partner of the top 23 firms on The Am Law 200, as ranked by PPP, and the average of the next

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  • July 21, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    The Marshall Plan

    Every October, the townsfolk of Marshall gather for a festival honoring a pesky and ubiquitous local nuisance -- the fire ant. But another wave of critters with a potentially irritating bite h

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  • September 21, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    A Closer Look at Congress and the Attorney-Client Privilege

    Is Bank of America playing with fire by snubbing a congressional demand for sensitive attorney-client materials, or does it stand on solid ground in resisting the request? a href="http:/

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