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  • August 2, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Old-Style Union Buster a Dying Breed

    Some people would call Cliff Nelson a union buster, but he thinks of himself as a gladiator -- and says he's part of a dying breed.I asked Nelson, a labor lawyer at Constangy Brooks & Sm

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  • August 1, 2005 | Alm

    How to Handle a Case When the Client Is a Pariah

    When public defender Stephen Osburn told his Kansas-native wife that he'd be representing the infamous "Bind-Torture-Kill" suspect, she told him, "The BTK guy was my boogie man growing up." b

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  • Gomez v. Quarterman

    Publication Date: 2008-05-29
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    Date Filed: 2008-05-27
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Jerry E. Smith, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 04-70047

    Before DAVIS, SMITH, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.Ignacio Gomez, a Mexican citizen, confessed that he shot and killed three teenagers in Texas. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to dea

  • Sandula v. District of Columbia Police & Firefighters' Retirement & Relief Board

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Date Filed: 2009-08-27
    Court: D.C. Ct. App.
    Judge: Kramer, Associate Judge
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    Case Number: 07-AA-622

    Argued November 12, 2008Before KRAMER and FISHER, Associate Judges, and SCHWELB, Senior Judge.Officer Darla Sandula was appointed to the Metropolitan Police Department on January 23, 2006. On Ja

  • August 9, 1999 | The Recorder

    L.A. Raw

    EDITOR'S NOTE McKenzie Brockman is a pseudonym for an associate who works in the Los Angeles office of a New York-based international law firm. In a series of diary entries origina

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  • June 2, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Admissibility of Statements of Pain and Physical Condition

    Federal Rules of Evidence 803(3) and 803(4) except from the hearsay rule statements of present physical condition a

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  • April 14, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    The power of peer pressure

    Peer pressure is one of the less-frequently discussed fuels propelling the Big Firm machine. Many Big Firms have figured out ways to harness the power of peer pressure so that they can inspir

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  • September 27, 2010 | The Careerist

    My Date with Speed Mentors

    Honestly, I thought Sarah Palin might breeze into the conference room at any moment. That would have been a hoot. But to my profound disappointment, it turned out to be just wishful thinking.

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  • Jane Doe, C/O Her Guardian and Next v. Dean Boland

    Publication Date: 2011-01-24
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    Date Filed: 2011-01-19
    Court: 6th Cir.
    Judge: Sutton, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 09-4281

    RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATIONPursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206File Name: 11a0016p.06Argued: December 8, 2010Before: SUTTON and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges; BERTELSMAN, District Judge.

  • October 15, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Panetta Aims to Get U.S. Businesses More Involved in Cybersecurity

    As Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta vividly described a potential “cyber Pearl Harbor” during a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/world/panetta-warns-of-dire-threat-of-cyber

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