• May 9, 2005 | Alm

    Wireless Technology Raising Concerns Over Trial Tampering

    Wireless technology, such as cellular phones and BlackBerrys, has raised a new concern in the legal system: Is text messaging being used to tamper with trials? That fear surfaced durin

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  • May 5, 2005 | Alm

    Lawyers Seek Pass From Federal Privacy Law

    Enough! That's what lawyers groups will be arguing today when they appear before a Washington, D.C., federal appeals court to challenge yet another layer of regulation aimed at them. T

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  • October 29, 2007 | Legal Times

    Keeping Score: A Recap of the Week in Legal Business

    Taking On the HouseA senior partner at Arnold & Porter is taking some time off from the firm, but not for an undoubtedly much�needed vacation. Irvin Nathan has been

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  • April 30, 2007 | Legal Times

    Big Tobacco's Big Brouhaha

    Cass Wheeler, the CEO of the venerable American Heart Association, has a score to settle with the tobacco lobby.His father was a heavy smoker. And while his dad passed away from

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  • December 24, 2007 | Legal Times

    Page Turners of 2007

    Most days, it's hard enough to get to the news. Yet many people still find time to curl up with a good book or two, judging from our informal survey. Legal Times asked a range of

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  • November 17, 2006 | Alm

    Former Enron Executive Gets 5.5 Years

    Former Enron Corp. Chief Accounting Officer Richard Causey, who pleaded guilty nearly a year ago to securities fraud, was sentenced on Wednesday to 5.5 years in federal prison.U.S. Dis

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  • February 26, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Sonnenschein Accused of Luring Away Clients

    As she has for many years, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal partner Lisa Murtha traveled to Las Vegas this past April to attend a conference of the Health Care Compliance Association, an org

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  • May 31, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Key DuPont documents unsealed

    Four months before E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. faces a high-stakes water-contamination trial, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals unsealed documents this month in which a compan

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  • April 30, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Former lawmakers starting as Hill lobbyists

    When congressman-turned-lobbyist Walt Min­nick (D-Idaho) stopped by the office of fellow Idahoan Rep. Mike Simpson (R) earlier this year, he addressed his old friend in a new way.

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  • September 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    No Class

    On Friday, March 24, 2006, Thomas Gentile, a partner at the 15-lawyer West Orange, New Jersey-based trust, tax, and estate boutique of Lampf, Lipkind, Prupis & Petigrow, filed a shareholde

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