• March 24, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Lips Unsealed: Third Circuit Ruling on Privilege Worries Defense Bar

    Corporate executives may need to be more careful about what they say to outside counsel during internal company probes. And they'll want to make sure that the lawyers they talk to are representing

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  • March 2, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Coudert IP Group Joins Alston & Bird Four lawyers from the New York intellectual property group of Coudert Brothers, including the group's head, Philippe Bennett, have joine

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  • May 12, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Laying Someone Off? Better Check That Laptop

    The company-issued laptop has ignited yet more workplace litigation as a growing number of exiting employees are being sued for swiping or wiping data from their portable computers. Employm

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  • June 1, 2011 | Law.com Corporate

    A Rebuilding Year

    At first glance, it might appear that the economic recovery stopped with The Am Law 100. While the nation's 100 highest-grossing firms rebounded from a disastrous 2009 by posti

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  • December 8, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Fact Witness Preparation

    Trial counsel must perform two basic tasks in order to prepare a fact witness to testify at trial — counsel must identify what the witness knows about the issues in the case

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  • October 2, 2006 | Legal Times

    Civil Actions

    The following selected cases were recently filed in .S. District Court for the District of Columbia; .S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Greenbelt division; and

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  • September 16, 2008 | The Recorder

    Sunny Forecast for GC Jobs in Clean-Tech Industry

    As the hot, young clean-tech industry matures, companies are hiring and searching for general counsel that have the hard-to-come-by blend of energy business and startup lawyer skills. b

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  • July 1, 2008 | The Recorder

    Covington Takes Heller Pair

    Covington & Burling has picked up two top litigators from Heller Ehrman's insurance recovery practice. David Goodwin, who joined Heller in 1986 and helped found and lat

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  • May 23, 2008 | National Law Journal

    RIAA Cases Music to Defense Lawyers' Ears

    Defense lawyers in copyright infringement cases brought by members of the Recording Industry of America are trumpeting as victories three recent court decisions that rein in the assoc

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  • June 21, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Confused Juries Can Lose Cases

    Dwelling on the dull minutiae of complicated communications technology is a sure-fire way to lose a jury. Such was the risk that Dan K. Webb knew he faced when he took on Vonage Holdings Cor

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