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  • March 30, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Are College Professors and Librarians Digital Pirates?

    First it was online music sharing. Next came video uploads and digitized books. Now a new copyright battle over digitized content is raging, this time with an unlikely set of alleged pirates:

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  • November 21, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Closed Club

    When Joseph Ryan arrived at Marriott International Inc. in December 1994 as its new general counsel, he inherited an Augean stable of well over 200 law firms. At the time, the bloated legal Ro

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  • November 9, 2009 | National Law Journal

    So long, farewell

    The nation's largest law firms this year suffered the deepest cuts in their attorney numbers since The National Law Journal began tracking their census figures more than 30 years

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  • July 1, 2009 | Focus Europe

    Arbitration Scorecard: Contracts

    AMOUNT IN CONTROVERSY: $28 billion (including $9 billion counterclaim) DISPUTE: OJSC Yukos Oil Company (Russian Federation) v. Kravin Investments Ltd., White P

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  • November 18, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    BigLaw Braces for a Future With Fewer Lawyers, Greater Client Expectations

    PHILADELPHIA - Hildebrandt Baker Robbins consultant Lisa R. Smith predicted in a blog post in September that the legal industry could shed 17,500 non-partner lawyer positions

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  • Marvel Characters v. Kirby, 11-3333-cv

    Publication Date: 2013-08-09
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Cabranes, Sack, and Carney, CJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees and Counter-Defendants-Appellees: James W. Quinn, Randi W. Singer, Gregory Silbert, on the brief, R. Bruce Rich Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, New York; David Fleischer, Haynes and Boone, LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellants: Marc Toberoff, Toberoff & Associates, P.C., Malibu, California.
    Case Number: 11-3333-cv

    Cite as: Marvel Characters v. Kirby, 11-3333-cv, NYLJ 1202614635496, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided August 8, 2013) 11-3333-cv Before: Cabranes, Sack, an

  • January 16, 2001 | Alm

    Spain

    Law firms have been discovering that there's far more to Spain than Iberian business stereotypes would suggest. Since a fiscally conservative government took power in 1996, the country has bee

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  • June 28, 2004 | Legal Times

    Buried in Paper?

    It's every company's worst litigation nightmare. Midway through a billion-dollar trial, crucial documents surface that were not produced during discovery. This is what happened i

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  • September 11, 2003 | Daily Business Review

    Make-or-Break Moment for Physicians' Class Action

    When Miami lawyer James B. Tilghman Jr. steps to the lectern in Atlanta today to ask the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to bless the biggest class action it has ever considered, he'll face

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  • August 17, 2012 | The Recorder

    Reducing the Cost of Patent Litigation

    The problem of excess discovery expense is felt as much in patent litigation as any area of the law. This state of affairs motivated the Federal Circuit Advisory Council to take action. With

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