• March 28, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Case against ex-Glaxo attorney is dismissed

    Federal prosecutors in the criminal case a Lauren Stevens, the indicted former in-house counsel of GlaxoSmithKline, received a double dose of bad news Wednesday. First the judge ruled a

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  • May 14, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Forty-somethings with law degree opt to go solo

    After 13 years as a public school teacher, and 13 years as a home-schooling parent, Ann McDonough decided to make a second career in law. But as a 53-year-old newly practicing attorney, her opti

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  • June 2, 2003 | Legal Times

    Balancing Act

    There are no elaborate displays of fresh flowers in the lobby of Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis. The white-painted wall trim is faintly scuffed, and the floors are covered in thin, wall

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  • February 26, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Sonnenschein Accused of Luring Away Clients

    As she has for many years, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal partner Lisa Murtha traveled to Las Vegas this past April to attend a conference of the Health Care Compliance Association, an organizat

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  • April 26, 2013 | The Recorder

    Greenberg Settles with Heller Estate for $5 million

    SAN FRANCISCO — Another settlement domino has fallen in the Heller Ehrman bankruptcy litigation.Greenberg Traurig has agreed to pay $4.9 million to settle the Heller estate's

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  • April 2, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Stevens report spurs concern from Congress

    There was no trial for the Ted Stevens prosecutors. There was no public proceeding to rebut allegations that government lawyers intentionally kept secret information that would have helped th

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  • January 4, 2013 | Legaltech News

    Amicus Attorney to Get Mobile Interfaces

    Gavel & Gown Software Inc. is preparing mobile interfaces for its Amicus Attorney practice management software that targets small to mid-sized firms. The mobile editions are HTML5

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  • February 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Alien Territory

    There was welcome news for multinational companies last fall when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that corporations may not be sued under the Alien Tort Claims A

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  • January 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

      The largest recent transactions, all worth at least $500 million, involving targets or acquirors from each of six Asian jurisdictions or regions: China/Hong Kong, Japan, Sou

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  • February 22, 2010 | National Law Journal

    CIVIL ACTIONS

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

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