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  • April 11, 2005 | Legal Times

    Civil Actions

    The following selected cases were recently filed in .S. District Court for the District of Columbia; .S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Greenbelt division; and

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  • February 2, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Foundation aims to fill legal-aid void

    CHICAGO � Chicago attorneys Anton Valukas and Kimball Anderson are heading up a Chicago Bar Foundation effort to raise funds to alleviate a "crisis" in the city's legal aid workforce, they s

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  • January 21, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Defending the home

    Public housing agencies and the federal government are facing some tough legal foes: litigators from top-tier law firms who are working to protect the housing rights of the poor.

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  • March 23, 2009 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    COOLEY GODWARD KRONISH Connie Bertram, 43, has joined Cooley Godward Kronish as partner in the firm’s employment and lab

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  • March 1, 2008 |

    Do Authors Get to Pick Their Heirs?

    Among the many important provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976 was the creation of "recapture" rights, designed to enable artists and their families to reclaim copyrights on works that

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  • October 24, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    General Mills Feasts on Victory in Food Labeling Case

    Rick Palmore, general counsel of cereal-maker General Mills, Inc., got his Kix this week when a class action suit related to labeling on the company's Fiber One breakfast bar was dismissed. And t

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  • October 22, 2007 | Legal Times

    Honors and Appointments

    AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION Barbara Brown has been named woman-elect of the American Bar Association's Section of Labor and Employment Law. Brown is a partner and

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  • June 18, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Exit, Women

    People were always asking San Francisco attorney Mae O'Malley how she lined up so much contract legal work as she juggled continuing her law career and raising three children. Her secret: As a f

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  • January 26, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Court shuts corporate liability case

    WASHINGTON — Business and white-collar defense groups have lost an effort to convince a federal app court to reconsider the "erroneous" approach of lower federal app

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  • October 13, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Settlement close in Native American farmers' discrimination suit

    The Justice Department is nearing a comprehensive class settlement with a class of Native American farmers who filed a discrimination suit against the federal government in 19

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