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  • July 8, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The Time Has Come for 'Open Architecture' Trusts

    The typical personal trust used in the United States today for wealth transfers is designed to protect against two risks: a loss of value due to estate and gift taxes, and the shortcomings of

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  • People v. Fierro

    Publication Date: 2010-01-12
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    Date Filed: 2010-01-11
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth C. Byrne and Tannaz Kouhpainezhad, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Carol S. Boyk, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: B209030

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  • December 23, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Tips to Minimize Holiday Stress and Celebrate the Season

    December often brings added stress to many lawyers. Some associates worry whether they have billed enough hours and whether they can possibly make up the shortfall in the remaining weeks in the yea

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  • June 19, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Is the Endangered Species Act Endangered?

    The Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. Sections 1531-1544, is one of the bedrocks of 1970s federal environmental legislation. Based upon the strength of the ESA, the tiny snail darter stopped c

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  • May 27, 1999 | Daily Report Online

    Bone-Screw Maker Extends Winning Streak

    U.S. District Court Judge Richard W. Story, ruling in the first six of dozens of bone screw cases before him, last month became the 44th federal judge to grant summary judgment to screw-maker Sofamor-

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  • April 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    TIME OFF: Of Reefs and Ruins

    Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula--the land that juts north into the Gulf of Mexico and east into the Caribbean from Belize and Guatemala--was once the center of Mayan civilization. More re

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  • November 3, 2008 | The Associated Press

    With US election, sun setting on Guantanamo trials

    GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba AP - Camp Justice, erected six months ago for the first U.S. war-crimes trials in a half-century, already feels like a ghost town. A hundred canvas tent

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  • April 2, 2004 | The Recorder

    Filibuster May Be Next for Bush's Latest 9th Circuit Choice

    Democrats appear poised to filibuster President Bush's latest nominee to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -- William Myers III, former cattle industry lobbyist and current solicitor for t

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  • March 27, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Parody of Wal-Mart trumps its trademark

    A Conyers, Ga., man has won a two-year legal battle with Wal-Mart, which has demanded he stop making and selling T-shirts, beer steins and other items that sport slogans such as "Wal-ocaust"

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  • June 30, 2005 | Legaltech News

    Patently Odd Web Sites

    Necessity, it is said, is the mother of invention. Sometimes, however, invention appears to come first. How else do you explain U.S. patent 3984595, an inflatable rug? Or U.S. patent 05356330,

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