• May 28, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Judge orders Toyota to perform document dump

    The federal judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation against the Toyota Motor Corp. ordered its lawyers to turn over tens of thousands of pages of internal documents that the company

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  • August 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Introduction: 1986

    "Is this work �tremendously satisfying?'" an associate mocked in response to a question in The American Lawyer's 1986 survey of third- and fourth-year associates. "Come on, what kind of questi

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  • June 10, 2010 | National Law Journal

    California Toyota litigation coordinated in Los Angeles

    Dozens of sudden-acceleration lawsuits filed against Toyota Motor Corp. in California's state courts will be coordinated in Los Angeles. California Chief Justice Ronald George iss

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  • August 8, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    Promotions Duane Morris (Philadelphia): Three attorneys in the intellectual property practice group have become partners: Gary D. Colby (biotechnology, medical and

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  • May 12, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Toyota economic damages could surpass $7 billion

    Plaintiff's counsel could seek as much as $7.35 billion from Toyota Motor Co. to compensate consumers for the diminished value of their vehicles in light of problems with sudden unintended acce

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  • January 31, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New Partners Hiscock & Barclay (Syracuse, N.Y.): John P. Lowe Jr. comes on board as partner in the firm's Rochester, N.Y., office. He serves as of counsel to CMS Bu

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  • April 3, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    HealthSouth coughs up healthy profits for attorneys

    By Andy Peters, Staff Reporter HealthSouth Corp. has helped lots of lawyers become more prosperous in recent years. The Birmingham, Ala., company expects eventually to pay a to

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  • December 30, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Call It L.A. Law

    Hollywood spent the holiday season giving us a pile of litigation to chew on. • First, a federal judge in California made a surprise ruling on the copyright dispute between Warner

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  • January 19, 2012 | Daily Business Review

    Are bananas a symbol of racism? Judges to decide

    It took Judges Edward E. Carnes and William H. Pryor Jr. years to come around to the side of a black plaintiff who claimed he was discriminated against by a manager who allegedly called him "b

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  • May 30, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Civil Rights staffs up

    Some of the lawyers who left the U.S. Depart­ment of Justice's Civil Rights Division during George W. Bush's presidency and complained they were the target of ideological warfare have ret

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