• May 21, 2007 | Legal Times

    On the Record with Craig Parker

    Craig Parker has been general counsel for Catholic Unive of America since 1987. He calls himself a "lifer" with the unive

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  • August 1, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Cases deluge Boston court

    In recent years, whistleblowers have flooded Boston's federal court with health care-related False Claims Act cases. As a result, some cases have languished, and judges have started en

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  • December 9, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Key Witness Against Ex-Judge Expected to Plead Guilty Paul Siminovsky, the key prosecution witness against former Brooklyn Justice Gerald P. Garson, is expected to plead

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  • March 20, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Firms Search for Deferred First-Years' Public Interest Posts

    As more law firms announce deferral dates for incoming associates, questions are piling up about just how the firms will find and manage the volunteer opportunities they're hoping to send their new

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  • May 18, 2006 |

    Companies Try New Approach: Settling for More

    Lopping three years off a patent to settle litigation doesn't seem like the kind of strategy investors would applaud. But in December 2005, when Cephalon Inc. announced that as part of an agreement

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  • May 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Profits Up, Partners Out

    The bi-coastal firm Thelen Reid & Priest has a lot to crow about. Fiscal year 2005 saw profits jump by a third, growth unparalleled since the firm was created in a 1998 merger. Both averag

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  • January 17, 2007 | Legal Times

    Supreme Court Hears Texas Death Penalty Cases

    The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in three Texas death-penalty cases that were billed as a test of wills between the high court and lower-court judges who have effectively defi

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  • October 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Tilting at Windmills

    It doesn't look like Houston will go the way of Detroit anytime soon. Lawyers who specialize in energy projects are leading the development of power from nontraditional, renewable source

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  • May 12, 2004 | The Recorder

    Contribution Quagmire

    As the election year gets under way, it's important for general counsel at politically active corporations to review federal election laws and to look at how the Bipartisan Campaign Refo

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  • February 28, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Zuckerman Spaeder (Washington): Francis Carter joins as partner in the firm's home office. Most recently a solo practitioner, he is a former director

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