• October 24, 2007 | National Law Journal

    MPAA GC Is Ready for His Close-Up

    Name and title: Gregory P. Goeckner, executive vice president and general counsel Age: 51 Roll 'em: Since 1922, when movies were silent and television was a labor

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  • December 9, 2004 |

    Simon Says

    Don't try to make rain by inviting David Simon out to a fancy restaurant. Dinner offers are a deal-killer for any law firm looking for Intel Corporation's patent-prosecution business. Simon, I

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  • August 31, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Joint venture gains control of 143 hotels from Red Roof Inns

    A joint venture led by Five Mile Capital Partners LLC gained control of 143 hotels by acquiring $700 million of Red Roof Inns Inc. debt, according to a person familiar with the transaction.

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  • July 21, 2006 | The Recorder

    Hollywood North

    Convergence � the marriage of entertainment and technology � is the new buzzword, and everyone from Apple to Yahoo is talking about it.Yahoo is partnering with Spanish TV network Telem

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  • January 30, 2012 | Daily Business Review

    Banks trying to regain public's trust

    Leaders of the world's biggest banks touted the virtues of austerity at the World Economic Forum in Davos — for themselves, not just for over-indebted governments. Many arrived i

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  • March 19, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Lawyers call for recusal of Pike County judge

    The judge who last year abruptly dismissed a murder defendant's appointed lawyers and replaced them with local public defenders has himself been asked to bow out of the case. Three vet

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  • January 18, 2011 | National Law Journal

    D.C. Circuit Ready to Void Torture Suit

    A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., appears poised to uphold the dismissal of a suit that alleges government torture in Afghanistan and in Iraq of nine civilians who claim they were beaten

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  • July 25, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Lawyers battle over contract public defenders

    Lawyers hoping to head off plans to shift the representation of certain indigent criminal defendants from four salaried, full-time attorneys to lawyers working by contract on Thursday asked J

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  • July 21, 2006 | The Recorder

    The Out-of-Towners

    When it comes to entertainment law, the big legal players have traditionally emerged from firms that sprung up in Los Angeles, the entertainment industry's home town.But increased late

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  • January 5, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Real Estate Marketplace

    The law firm Latham & Watkins is expanding its headquarters at 885 Third Avenue, known as the Lipstick Building, even though the number of attorneys in its New York office dipped in

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