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  • November 5, 2009 | National Law Journal

    D.C. Court of Appeals resurrects cell phone radiation cases

    In a ruling that has grabbed the attention of the product liability and telecommunications bars, the D.C. Court of Appeals last week revived a series of lawsuits by individuals who say th

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  • July 17, 2006 | Legal Times

    White-Collar prosecutions dropping

    Armed with a slew of statistics, Matthew Friedrich, the Justice Department's No. 2 official in its Criminal Division, went before the Senate Judiciary Committee late last month to tout t

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  • September 6, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Pro Bono Flourishes at D.C. Firms

    D.C.'s Legal Aid Society is located in the city's downtown business district, nearly swallowed by the bland postmodern office buildings proliferating in the area like objections during a

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  • March 8, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Firms slow to awaken to cybersecurity threat

    An oddly worded e-mail was the first sign of something amiss at Los Angeles firm Gipson Hoffman & Pancione. It didn't read like the messages the firm's attorneys usually sent each other &md

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  • September 19, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    NEW PARTNERS Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Eric S. Dreiband joins the labor and employment practice group as a partner in the firm's Washington office. He was previously

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  • October 3, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Former Enron Exec Charged in Criminal Complaint

    Andrew S. Fastow, Enron Corp.'s former chief financial officer, was charged on Wednesday in Houston with defrauding shareholders and reaping millions in ill-gotten gains in an alleged scheme to inflat

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  • September 17, 2007 | Legal Times

    Charlene Barshefsky

    "The world," says Charlene Barshefsky, "is an endlessly fascinating place."She should know. The former U.S. trade representative has been around it so many times, she says, she q

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  • October 17, 2005 | Legal Times

    A Few Affairs of the Chart

    GROWTH PATTERN If you thought Northern Virginia was "so three years ago," think again. At least if you're Morrison & Foerster. The San Francisco-based high-tech

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  • July 20, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Civil Actions

    The following cases were recently filed in the Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the district courts' official online bulletins. U.S. DISTR

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  • October 26, 2000 | Legal Times

    The Age of Expansion

    Never mind those annoying associate salaries, all those interest rate hikes, rising rents, and the first trickle of dot-com bankruptcies; the majority of Washington's biggest law

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