• May 15, 2012 | Daily Business Review

    'Pandemonium,' tears prevail as Dewey cuts staff

    New York employees of beleaguered Dewey & LeBoeuf collected their belongings and said goodbye to colleagues on their last day after the firm a href="http://nylawyer.nylj.com/adgifs/d

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  • Headley v. Church of Scientology International

    Publication Date: 2012-07-24
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    Date Filed: 2012-07-24
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dale S. Fischer, District Judge, Presiding Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathryn Saldana, Metzger Law Group, Long Beach, California, argued the cause and filed the briefs for the plaintiffs-appellants. With her on the briefs was Raphael Metzger, Metzger Law Group, Long Beach, California.
    for defendant: Eric M. Lieberman, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., New York, NY, argued the cause and filed the brief for the defendants-appellees. With him on the brief were Bert H. Deixler, Kendall, Brill & Klieger LLP, Los Angeles, California; Harold M. Brody and G. Samuel Cleaver, Proskauer Rose LLP, Los Angeles, California; and Robert E. Mangels and Matthew D. Hinks, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP, Los Angeles, California.

    Case Number: No. 10-56266 No. 10-56278

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 8300 CLAIRE HEADLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL; RELI

  • March 26, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Labor & Employment

    When Politics and Popular Debate Enter the Workplace   img alt="" src="http://www.newyorklawj

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  • July 31, 2009 | The Recorder

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    CUTS — CRUEL AND KINDAs a part of our annual midlevel survey, we asked associates whether their firms had conducted layoffs. We also asked them to assess--on a 1-to-5 scale, with 5

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  • July 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Social Networks and Blogs: Managing Chatter

    If the Internet is regarded as a "worldwide conversation,"[FOOTNOTE 1] blogging and social networking applications are, increasingly, the language in which that conversat

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  • August 13, 2008 | National Law Journal

    ABA Rule Change on Conflicts Fails by One Vote

    NEW YORK — A bid to relax attorney ethics rules regarding conflicts of interest in private law firms was rejected by one vote at the American Bar Association House of Delegates

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  • October 13, 2006 | National Law Journal

    IBM's New Initiative Could Change the Patent Process

    Intellectual property lawyers are praising a recent decision by IBM Corp. to publish its patents on the Web as an important first step in reforming the patent process and reducing litigation.

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  • March 9, 2004 | Alm

    Likely Sentencing Equations in Stewart Case

    After absorbing the shock of a guilty verdict on all counts for Martha Stewart, lead defense attorney Robert Morvillo has three priorities: Move to set aside the verdict as against the weight

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  • April 9, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Stanford GC's Resignation Offers Lessons

    Lawyers with experience in securities investigations and white-collar criminal law say important lessons can be found in the experience of P. Mauricio Alvarado, who resigned as general counsel of t

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  • May 15, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Lawyer's Repeated Failures Lead to Reversal of Conviction A law school student's appeal has resulted in the reversal of a man's felony conviction on drug charges. In June 2002,

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