• December 22, 2009 | National Law Journal

    For Associates, a Decade of Thrills and Chills

    It was a wild ride for associates at big law firms during the first decade of the century. In the end, most everyone was a little queasy from the experience. Between 2000 and 2009, law firms

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  • October 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Fallen Star

    In the summer of 1967, police brutality, poverty, and despair led Newark's Central Ward to erupt in racial violence. Six days of rioting left 23 people dead, 725 injured, and the neighborhood

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  • Prostar v. Masachi

    Publication Date: 2001-01-22
    Practice Area:
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    Date Filed: 2001-01-17
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: KING, Chief Judge, and HIGGINBOTHAM and DUHI, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: No. 00-30268

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. PER CURIAM:This case presents us with the task of determining the appropriate statute of limitations for an action

  • December 31, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Legal OnRamp Founder Sells Its Virtues

    "Success is not correlated with legal quality. Because no one knows what that is." Paul Lippe is at it again, jabbing at the conventions of the legal profession. This time

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  • Ruffin v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-12-10
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    Date Filed: 2008-12-10
    Court: Tex. Crim. App.
    Judge: Cochran, J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: NO. PD-1482-07 through PD-1489-07

    OPINIONAppellant was charged with first-degree aggravated assault by shooting at ten police officers during an armed "standoff" on his rural property in Coryell County. He contended that he was suf

  • Oliver v Tanning Bed, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-04-11
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    Court: Appellate Division, 3rd Dept
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 502221

    Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Third Judicial Department Decided and Entered: April 11, 2008 502221 SANDRA OL

  • January 29, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    News in Brief

    A trial court lacks the authority to order the production of an expert witness' federal income tax records as part of an opposing party's attempt to prove the expert is biased, according to a Super

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  • February 3, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Meadowlands Commission Revises Master Plan, Rewrites Zoning Regulations -- Finally

    For the first time in over 30 years, the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission has revised its Master Plan and rewritten its zoning regulations. The new plan and regulations to implement it were a

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  • October 15, 2003 | Daily Report Online

    Iraq Diary, Part I

    Two months shy of his law school graduation, Michael R. Moebes sat in a Decatur, Ga., coffee shop working on a paper about retirement planning. Then his cell phone rang.It was Mi

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  • September 23, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    What Would a Guy Do?

    Sometimes, my life reminds me of that scene in "Goodfellas," where Ray Liotta is rushing around town, trying to coordinate a massive drug deal, being tailed by feds in black helicopters and

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