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  • January 21, 2013 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    NEW ARRIVALS Carter Ledyard & Milburn (New York): Pamela Mann joins the firm's trusts and estates department as partner

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  • December 10, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Economic Reality Bites Into Firms' Rates

    It took a global economic meltdown and a major upheaval of the legal industry, but law firms seemed to get the message that 2009 was not the year to substantially increase their billing rates.

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  • May 15, 2007 | Special To Law.Com

    'Philip Morris' Decision May Be Hazardous to Jurors' Comprehension

    How can a jury increase a punitive damages award for a defendant's "reprehensible" conduct that harmed nonparties to the litigation without crossing the line into punishing the defendant for that c

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  • February 23, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Justices to Define Executive Powers in Terror-Related Cases

    Washington � In his prescient 1998 book on civil liberties in wartime, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote that when bullets fly, "laws speak with a somewhat different voi

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  • October 25, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Part-time culture grows at firms

    Carey Bartell was a fourth-year associate at Sachnoff & Weaver when she took a 14-week maternity leave. When she returned to work, Bartell experienced something that is familiar to many

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  • June 28, 2005 | Legal Times

    Conservative Agenda Stalls Out

    WASHINGTON -- Solicitor General Paul Clement says he's noticed a new trend in the wardrobe of Supreme Court advocates. More and more men who argue before the court are wearing bow ties, a trib

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  • June 21, 2010 | National Law Journal

    WINNING

    A theme kept recurring during our reporting for this year's "Winning," The National Law Journal's annual profiles of successful litigators. It was the thrill of d

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  • February 2, 2001 | Law.com

    NextWave Hires Ted Olson for Court Fight

    Facing what could be its final courtroom battle, NextWave Telecom Inc. tapped Theodore Olson to represent the cellular telephone hopeful next month before the U.S. Court of Appeals for t

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  • January 30, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Attack on Sentencing Commission Website Exposes Weak Defenses

    Privacy and data law firm practitioners said the January 26 attack on the U.S. Sentencing Commission's website fit with a pattern of assaults intended on shaming the government by conveying p

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  • November 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Who Got the Work?

    For big-firm lawyers, there's gold in the privateequity boom. Leveraged buyouts totaling $209 billion were announced in the first eight months of 2006, according to the research service M

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