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  • June 14, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    How Does Your Garden Grow?

    Planting a seed and seeing it grow and bear fruit � that's the joy of gardening. However, as incoming State Bar of Texas president, avid gardener Kelly Frels is looking forward to tending the

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  • February 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The War Comes Home

    A year after Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers tore down the towering statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdous Square, a few dozen American civilians at a U.S. military base in Iraq climb

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  • November 5, 1999 | The American Lawyer

    Gimme Shelter

    The tax implications of "accelerated charitable remainder trusts" might seem as exciting as a pot of drying glue. But when Carlyn McCaffrey, a partner in New York's Weil, Gotshal & Manges, bega

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  • March 13, 2006 | Legal Times

    New Life For A Salesman

    John Boehner likes to insist he's just a regular guy in a big job.The newly elected House majority leader — already a front-runner to become the next speaker of the House &#

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  • December 23, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    2005: A Competitive Time for Area Firms

    Editor's note: This is one of several articles taking a look at how Pennsylvania firms, courts and legal institutions fared during 2005. Last year's look back at events in the P

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  • September 21, 2000 | Corporate Counsel

    How Can I Help You?

    Ignoring a steady drizzle and his blue-gray suit, a trim, 40-year-old lawyer squats in a Chicago parking lot behind a big yellow school bus. He carefully folds a handkerchief in quarters

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  • September 17, 2003 |

    The Client Comes First

    Kmart Corp.'s request for a proposal for a new national labor counsel was just a little different from anything Foley & Lardner's chief information officer, Douglas Caddell, had seen befor

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  • January 28, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    5th Circuit to Hear Appeal in Military Contractor Case

    A year after Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers tore down the towering statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdous Square, a few dozen American civilians at a U.S. military base in Iraq climb

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  • May 29, 2003 | The Recorder

    Quinn's Quest

    One morning in December, Kenneth Chiate got a frantic phone call from a man who was suing Prudential Life Insurance Co. for defamation.Two weeks into a jury trial, he feared his

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  • Fair v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2012-02-07
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-02-03
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Jerry E. Smith, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 11-30467

     United States Court of Appeals Fifth CircuitSummary CalendarLyle W. Cayce ClerkBefore REAVLEY, SMITH, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.Iris Fair,