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  • July 18, 2006 | Legal Times

    Pushing back on military justice

    Perhaps the Bush administration has said it before. But never as starkly or forthrightly as last week, when it explained the real impediment to trying the 450 Guant�namo Bay detainees un

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  • January 6, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

      Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has lost the firmwide chair of its intellectual property and IP litigation group, JILL PIETRINI, to a target="_blank" href="http:

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  • June 4, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Two Confirmed For Federal Bench, Irizarry Still on Hold The U.S. Senate yesterday confirmed the appointment of two judges to federal courts in New York. On unanimous consent, th

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  • May 1, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    On the Job: Reverse Commute

    U.S. attorney general Michael Mukasey joined Debevoise & Plimpton as a partner in the New York office . . . The march of former government lawyers returning to priva

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  • August 25, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Nonprofit mergers gaining velocity

    Competition for scarce dollars, dwindling volunteers and a tough economy have conspired to push more nonprofit groups and industry trade organizations to consolidate, creating a he

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  • January 7, 2008 | Legal Times

    DOJ's Nazi Chasers Find New Criminals to Hunt

    Eli Rosenbaum still chases Nazis for a living. It's just not his full-time job anymore.Rosenbaum, 52, heads the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, which for m

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  • August 11, 2003 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible

    JUDGE REFUSES TO TOSS OUT $959M JUDGMENT FOR POWSA federal judge last week reaffirmed a $959 million civil judgment handed down against Iraq for torturing Americ

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  • April 26, 2006 | Legal Times

    U.S. justices focus on RICO, not aliens

    The Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to pleas by business advocates not to "RICO-ize" all types of business relationships, as Justice Stephen Breyer put it, during oral arguments Wedne

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  • September 28, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Verizon Backs Samsung in Fight Against Apple Injunction Bid

    Of all the pretrial litigation tools available to combatants in the ever-expanding smartphone IP wars, one of the most fearsome—albeit hard to win—is a motion for a preliminar

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  • July 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    A Dirty Business

    On June 8 the U.S. Supreme Court struck a blow for judicial integrity. In Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., the Court ruled that elected judges must step aside on matters involving major campai

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