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  • September 21, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Cool It With the Hype: FTC Prepares Crackdown on 'Astroturfing'

    The controversial promotional practice of "astroturfing" — flooding the Internet with bogus product reviews — is about to hit the dirt. The a href="http://www.

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  • April 25, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Judge Orders Release of Document Showing 'Hellhole' PR Strategy

    For years, the courts in Madison County, Ill., were regular stars of the American Tort Reform Association's annual list of "judicial hellholes." While no longer on that notorious list, th

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  • August 8, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Design-defect theory upheld in tobacco suit

    The daughter and husband of a woman who died of lung cancer can proceed with their lawsuit against Philip Morris and other tobacco companies under a design-defect theory and can seek punitive

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  • February 21, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Protecting valuable designs

    Name and title: Corinne Kevorkian, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary Age: 46 The company: New York's F. Schumacher & Co. designs a

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  • January 1, 2005 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San FranciscoJeffrey McKinney has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as special counsel in its intellectual property group. Most recently with

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  • July 21, 2008 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO Kimberly Baker has joined ELLMAN BURKE HOFFMAN & JOHNSON as a senior associate. A 1999 graduate of Harv

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  • March 23, 2009 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    COOLEY GODWARD KRONISH Connie Bertram, 43, has joined Cooley Godward Kronish as partner in the firm’s employment and lab

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  • March 13, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    New partners Baker & Daniels (Indianapolis): Nicholas E. Mathioudakis joins the emerging companies and private capital group as a partner in the firm's Indianapolis offic

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  • April 25, 2007 | Alm

    Court Refuses to Revive Smoking Suit Filed After Limitations

    A man who started smoking when he was 9 and did not quit until he underwent throat cancer surgery 30 years later is time-barred from suing cigarette companies for his disease, a New York Appel

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  • November 28, 2005 | Lawfirminc.

    CRM: Love It or Loathe It

    Does your firm truly understand that law is moving from an "eat what you kill," private club modus operandi to a collaborative, corporate model? If you aren't using client relationship management s

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