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  • March 10, 2008 | Legal Times

    Obama Charms Some Former Clinton Stalwarts

    On a warm fall evening in 2004, not long after he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois, Barack Obama attended an intimate Washington dinner party. Seated next to him was Covingto

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  • December 18, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Will More Firms Re-Defer Their Incoming First-Years?

    After Nixon Peabody announced on Tuesday that it would a target="new" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=12024

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  • June 23, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    Bowery Residents Committee (BRC), a not-for-profit organization that serves the homeless and those with addictions, has signed a 33-year lease for a Chelsea property that it plans to turn into a &q

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  • May 16, 2005 | Alm

    Law Firms Face Sharp Rise in Malpractice Suits

    It's getting more expensive for corporate lawyers to defend themselves. A soon-to-be-released study by the American Bar Association shows that the number of big-ticket suits - those w

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  • August 18, 2008 | Legal Times

    Civil Actions

    The following cases were recently filed in the local district courts. This information is provided by the district courts’ official online bulletin boar

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  • June 22, 2009 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS Burner, Smith & Associates (Setauket, N.Y.): Alison Arden Besunder joins the firm as managing partner of the New York office. Besun

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  • November 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Scanning the Future

    It was a tough summer for the Google book search settlement. The proposed deal, which would give Google Inc. the right to scan and display millions of copyrighted books, was lambasted as anticompe

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  • November 14, 2006 | The Recorder

    Win Gets Lawyer Only Fraction of Fees

    It might just be the most expensive phone call never made.Allen Kent, a Corte Madera attorney, ran up more than $250,000 in legal fees defending against inquiries by the state Supreme

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  • April 5, 2010 | National Law Journal

    CALENDAR

    Tuesday, April 6 INVESTOR RIGHTS: Six sections of the District of Columbia Bar present "The SEC's Investor Protection Mission: What Is on the Horizon for the Div

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  • September 29, 2008 | The Recorder

    Heller Starts Dissolution Process

    A day after telling employees that the firm would close its doors, Heller Ehrman has dissolution counsel and a dissolution committee in place, San Francisco Managing Partner Barry Levin

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