• July 15, 2005 |

    Rules of Attraction

    For a company that makes little industrial magnets, Magnequench International Inc. has a lot of pull. Over the past year, Singapore-based Magnequench, which grossed just $85 million last year,

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  • In re Grand Jury Investigation

    Publication Date: 2008-10-28
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2008-10-10
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Selya, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 07-2353

    Before Howard, Baldock,*fn1 and Selya, Circuit Judges.This appeal requires us to explore the parameters of the district court's authority to hold in contempt those

  • June 2, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Public Interest Projects

    DLA Makes Headway on Asylum After nearly three years of legal proceedings and postponements involving a twice-rescheduled trial, political asylum was granted late last month to

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  • January 20, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Brobeck Slims Staff as Merger Talks Continue

    Continuing to slim down, San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison has axed office administrators in Austin, and Irvine, Calif.; a third administrator in the Dallas office has voluntarily re

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  • March 7, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . John C. Dickey, formerly with Jenkens & Gilchrist, has joined Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham in Dallas as a partner in the firm's corporate practic

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  • August 4, 2000 | Texas Lawyer

    Judge Sues Over Allegations Made in Yahoo Suit

    A Dallas judge has gone on the attack, filing a defamation suit against his own friend and former lawyer amid allegations of bribery and ex parte communications.Judge David R. Gibson's

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  • December 7, 2000 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    The Importance of Being Rodney

    As a native of Wilmington, Del., Sheldon A. Weinstein knows it's not always a case of "build it and they will come."That was evident when Weinstein's law firm, Young Conaway Stargatt &

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  • September 27, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Judge Who Lambasted Lawyer Faces Misconduct Allegations

    A Dallas judge who had publicly accused an attorney of using the type of intimidation tactics "we normally reserved for the mob" appeared Sept. 24 before a special master appointed by the T

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  • June 12, 2006 | Special To Law.Com

    U.K. Bill Predicted to Cause Shake-Up of Global Legal Services

    In an action expected to reverberate across international borders, the U.K. government announced last month that lawyers may soon be able to go into business with other professionals and outside in

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  • November 15, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Clifford Chance, Nutter McClennen Advise $2.2 Billion Insurance Deal Mapfre S.A. of Spain has purchased Massachusetts-based insurer The Commerce Group Inc., for $2.2 billion in

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