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  • July 12, 2007 | Alm

    Chicago's Midsized Firms Aim to Stay Independent

    Midsized Chicago law firms are staking out plans for staying independent but are still open to mulling merger options, following moves during the past year by rivals to hook up with larg

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  • October 2, 2012 | Daily Business Review

    Federal judge hears challenge to voter purge so close to election

    An affiliation of union, minority and civil rights groups asked a federal judge Monday to stop the state from going forward with its latest a href="http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/dbr/purge1002

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  • March 26, 2012 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    NEW ARRIVALS BALLARD SPAHR (Philadelphia): Joseph La Barge joins the firm's business and finance department as of counsel to the Philadel

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  • August 2, 2006 | Special To Law.Com

    Supreme Court Eases Standard for Title VII Retaliation Claims

    In Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White, 548 U.S. --, No. 05-259 (June 22, 2006), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the anti-retaliation provision of Title VII of the Civil

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  • May 30, 2013 | The Recorder

    Cascades Takes Another Run at RPX

    Cascades Computer Innovation, a nonpracticing entity descended from the original "patent troll," is back in federal court waging a legal assault against self-described troll-f

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  • February 6, 2002 | Legal Times

    Why Bush Won't Let Go

    The showdown between the White House and the General Accounting Office over records related to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force may be the Bush administration's most high-p

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  • February 23, 2004 | Alm

    High Court to Examine Wartime Executive Powers

    In his prescient 1998 book on civil liberties in wartime, Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote that when bullets fly, "laws speak with a somewhat different voice." He could not have k

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  • May 10, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Finding office space is a full-time job

    ATTORNEY ROBERT IVANHOE spends up to 1,000 hours each year working on high-stakes real estate deals involving some of the choicest property in the world for a single commercial tenant.

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  • September 20, 2002 | Corporate Counsel

    Paula Boggs

    It was early 1999. Matthew Neumeier from Chicago's Jenner & Block was cross-examining a key witness in a big insurance coverage arbitration for his client Dell Computer Corp. Things were g

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  • December 12, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Firm-by-firm sampling of billing rates nationwide

    The National Law Journal asked the respondents to its 2005 survey of the nation's 250 largest law to provide a range of hourly billing rates for partners and associates. The

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