• August 9, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Where Have All the Securities Class Actions Gone?

    The era was marked by mysterious envelopes. When opened, the official-looking documents inside informed the reader that, because he owned three shares of, say, Microsoft Corp. stock some years

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  • February 23, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Six King & Spalding Partners Join McKee Nelson

    McKee Nelson has recruited a six-partner litigation group from the New York office of King & Spalding.Led by Jeffrey Q. Smith, the group also includes partners Steven G. Brody, Susan F.

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  • July 21, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Take-Home Pay

    New York's corporate general counsels continue to benefit from lucrative compensation. Last year, 12 of them were among the top 100 highest-paid general counsels at Fortune 500 companies accor

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  • September 27, 2006 |

    Beefing Up Tyson's IP Department

    Christine Daugherty has a strong stomach. Back when she was a Ph.D. candidate in plant physiology, Daugherty spent two years with NASA conducting experiments aboard the "Vomit Comet," the same Boei

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  • July 27, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Well-Paid Advisers

    New York's corporate general counsels continue to benefit from generous compensation packages. Last year, 16 were among the top 100 highest-paid general counsels at Fortune 500 companies, acco

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  • American Transitional Care Centers of Texas Inc. v. Palacios

    Publication Date: 2001-05-11
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    Date Filed: 2001-05-10
    Court: Tex. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Judge HANKINSON
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    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. Justice Hankinson delivered the opinion of the Court.In this medical-malpractice case we determine the standards f

  • August 14, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Firms start mad dash for fresh talent

    IT'S A SCARY PROSPECT, meeting with partners at a big firm about a job. But, as one law student who landed a summer position at Latham & Watkins quickly realized, the preinterview jitters

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  • July 26, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    Texas' Top Deals of 2003

    CAREMARK RX INC. Acquisition of ADVANCEPCS Description: Acquisition of AdvancePCS, of Irving, by Caremark RX Inc., of Birmingham, Ala., in a deal valued at about $6 billion. Completed

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  • April 23, 2001 | Law.com

    Movers & Shakers

    New York's Proskauer Rose announced that two litigators from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Jack DiCanio and Anthony Pacheco, have joined the firm to expand the white-collar criminal

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  • June 5, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Letter: Fee-paid judiciary presents constitutional problems

    Cary Ichter is to be commended for his thoughts on a self-funding judiciary "A self-funding judiciary," May 28. However, two of his four planks-restitution by criminal defendants and a "tax"

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