• May 1, 2006 | Legal Times

    Blocked Net

    One of the most important debates in telecommunications today is over "net neutrality." Advocates of a strong net-neutrality policy argue that broadband Internet providers may block or l

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  • March 30, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    What Price?

    If ever there was a white-collar offender who seemed destined to do hard time, it is Bernard Madoff. In March the swindler pleaded guilty to 11 criminal counts that carry a maximum sente

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  • July 14, 2003 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible

    TRADING PLACES: NEW CROP OF LEADERS AT THE FTCAfter a two-year tenure that surprised many with its activism, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition Direc

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  • February 10, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Could a GC Have Helped Komen Avoid Planned Parenthood Firestorm?

    Karen Handel made news this week when she stepped down from her post as senior vice

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  • October 13, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Manatt Agrees to Pay State $550,000, Curb Pension Business

    Editors' Note: This article has been updated to reflect a Correction. Manat

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  • August 8, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    Promotions Duane Morris (Philadelphia): Three attorneys in the intellectual property practice group have become partners: Gary D. Colby (biotechnology, medical and

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  • July 1, 2002 | The Recorder

    Profit Plunge

    Through the late 1990s, driven by double-digit growth at Silicon Valley tech firms, Bay Area law firms led the nation in terms of profit growth. In 2001, the region's fortunes took an abrupt

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  • October 30, 2007 | Legal Times

    Don't Be Dubbed a Human Rights Abuser

    How much attention must multinational corporations really pay to potential human rights abuses in overseas operations? Though a recent verdict in a high-profile Alien Tort Claims Act case in

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  • December 22, 2008 | Legal Times

    Lobbying When Everything's At Stake

    You’re familiar with bet-the-company litigation. Now get used to bet-the-company lobbying. As the financial crisis is threatening entire sectors of the economy,

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  • December 12, 2011 | National Law Journal

    The decline continues

    The headcount among Washington firms continued to decline, but not as sharply as it did last year — the biggest recorded drop in 25 years. According to the Legal Times 150, our annual r

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