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  • November 26, 2012 |

    Personnel updates from Weil, Gotshal and Jenner & Block

    Last week, some important news broke concerning lawyers at two major law firms.

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  • Ellington v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg, Gladys H. Pollard Capital Defender's Office, Atlanta, and David W. DeBruin Jenner & Block LLP, District of Columbia, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Donald P. Geary, Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Theresa M. Schiefer, and Dana E. Weinberger, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, Franklin J. Hogue Hogue & Hogue LLP, Macon, and J. Scott Key, Decatur. Other party representation: Brian Kammer Georgia Resource Ctr. and Richard A. Malone Prosecuting Attorney's Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S12P0870

    The trial court abused its discretion in precluding voir dire questioning of prospective jurors as to whether they would automatically impose the death penalty, rather than fairly considering all th

  • November 6, 2012 |

    Quiz: Test your knowledge of lawyers-turned-presidents

    There are plenty of differences between presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, but the two opponents have one thing in common: They both have law degrees.

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  • October 31, 2012 |

    What Small Business Owners Should Know about Insurance Coverage

    Linda Kornfeld, an insurance-litigation attorney with Chicagolaw firm Jenner & Block, spoke with Bloomberg Businessweek about how small business owners…

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  • August 16, 2012 |

    Pfizer GC Amy Schulman wins women’s achievement award

    InsideCounsels September 2011 cover girl, Pfizers executive vice president and general counsel and president of Pfizer Nutrition Amy Schulman, received a noteworthy award last week.

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  • July 31, 2012 |

    Study names 25 of the most diverse law firms

    On Monday, career website Vault.com, which provides rankings and ratings on universities and employers, released its 2013 Law Firm Diversity Rankings.

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  • June 30, 2012 |

    Viacom v. YouTube raises copyright infringement questions

    Online service providers may need to control users' activities to be protected under Digital Millennium Copyright Act

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  • January 10, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Litigation Power Rankings

    Thanks to its second consecutive Litigation Department of the Year win, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher can also claim the

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  • December 31, 2011 |

    Court throws out FCC’s indecency fine against CBS again

    Nine-sixteenths of a second has haunted CBS Corp. for nearly eight years. But a recent 3rd Circuit decision may have temporarily put the broadcast company at ease.

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  • December 31, 2011 |

    8 ways SOX changed corporate governance

    Experts weigh in on SOX 10 years after it became law

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