• December 15, 2006 | Lawfirminc.

    Sales Training: Is It Worth Your While?

    For many lawyers, the word "sales" conjures up images of mechanized cold calling or making overly rehearsed pleas for new business. But if you think that relatively few law firms have tried sales t

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  • July 18, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    In The Trenches: Firm riding on TV ads expands into Georgia

    MORGAN & MORGAN has used TV advertising to build one of Florida's largest personal injury practices, with about 100 lawyers calling the firm home. Now it wants to do the same in Geor

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  • July 18, 2007 |

    Courting a Jury

    For all of the hype these days over enormous jury verdicts -- including the record $1.5 billion judgement against Microsoft Corp. in March -- few juries ever decide a patent dispute. The huge stake

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  • April 15, 2013 | Daily Report Online

    The lateral affair: It's more than a casual romance

    Making a lateral move to another law firm is a lot like having an affair.You meet clandestinely. And if the stars align and you feel sure the match is right, you face the difficult tas

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  • August 2, 2010 | National Law Journal

    The iron man of import battles

    In the early hours of a Saturday morning, you might find Paul Luckern manning the guard desk at the U.S. International Trade Commission, buzzing in the teams of lawyers arriving to appear be

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  • June 19, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    ITC Survey 2012: A Niche With Staying Power

    It's almost become a lawyer meme that the International Trade Commission, a once-obscure quasi-judicial body, is a hot forum for patent disputes because it handles cases quickly

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  • August 9, 2002 | The Recorder

    Another IP firm, Lyon & Lyon, Closes Up Shop

    After several years of losing partners and big-ticket litigation work to general practice firms, Los Angeles-based Lyon & Lyon announced Thursday that it is closing its doors at the end of

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  • October 30, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Law firms, courts and schools struggle to cope in Sandy's wake

    East Coast legal communities were mopping up on October 30 as the "superstorm" Sandy finally began to quit the region. Power outages, mass transit shutdowns and wind and water damage

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  • April 3, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Jeffrey I. Nicodemus has been named a shareholder in Cowles & Thompson in Dallas. He practices in the areas of commercial litigation, professional liability, pr

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  • May 9, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    CIENA v. Corvis

    Sometimes a verdict allows both sides to claim victory. This March, Maryland-based telecom equipment makers CIENA Corporation and Corvis Corporation were able to do just that when a jury broug

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