• December 9, 2002 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible

    Michigan's Bipartisan Team in Race CaseAs it braces for a difficult battle in defense of its affirmative action programs before the Supreme Court, the University of Michigan has added new

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  • July 9, 2012 | National Law Journal

    The Legal Times Awards: Champions & Visionaries

    For the fifth year, we're recognizing Washington lawyers for work that has advanced the practice of law. The trailblazers profiled here have won cases at the U.S. Supreme Court and influenced

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  • July 29, 2003 | Legal Times

    DOJ Seeks Dismissal of POW Award Against Iraq

    The Justice Department has asked a judge to throw out a $959 million judgment levied against Iraq for torturing American prisoners of war in 1991 -- arguing that President George W. Bush has r

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  • April 12, 2005 |

    Lawmakers Seek Probe of Tyco Deal

    A key U.S. lawmaker is pressing federal regulators to expand their probe into India-based Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.'s $130 million acquisition of undersea fiber-optic cable assets from Tyc

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  • October 9, 2006 | The Recorder

    Inside the Hollywood Shuffle

    LOS ANGELES � A law student posted the question on an online message board last month: "Anything going wrong with Alschuler these days?"The well-regarded shop had dropped out of his sc

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  • February 16, 2005 |

    Verizon, MCI Face Tough Choices

    For years, Verizon Communications Inc.'s position on MCI Inc. was that crime shouldn't pay, a criticism of the bankruptcy case that allowed the former WorldCom Inc. to shed tens of billions of

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  • May 19, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

    U.S. Deported Suspected Terrorists Whose Trials Could Jeopardize Probes

    Individuals in the U.S. with links to terrorism were deported to their home countries even though investigators believed they posed a danger to national security and could be prosecuted, accor

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  • September 13, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Who's Responsible for the Biovail 'Shareholder' Suit?

    On Friday, March 24, 2006, Thomas Gentile, a partner at the 15-lawyer West Orange, N.J.-based trust, tax and estate boutique of Lampf, Lipkind, Prupis & Petigrow, filed a shareholder class acti

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  • September 14, 2007 | National Law Journal

    How Associates Become Rainmakers

    By the time most law firm associates have reached the senior level (six to nine years out of law school), they have developed the technical skills and proficiency necessary to be good lawyers and t

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  • October 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Top Job

    Fall brings several new legal chiefs to the world of higher education. Kent Nelson, Idaho's senior deputy attorney general, starts work as GC at the University of Idaho in mid-September . . .

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