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  • March 27, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    No Bias in Firing of Former Partner, Ropes Claims

    An attorney representing Ropes & Gray insisted at a Wednesday hearing that the firm fired a 63-year-old female partner in the fall of 2010 because it no longer made economic sense to keep

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  • Biediger v. Quinnipiac University, 10-3302-cv

    Publication Date: 2012-08-09
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Winter, Raggi, and Chin, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellees: Kristen Galles, Jonathan B. Orleans, Alex V. Hernandez, Pullman & Comley, LLC, Bridgeport, Connecticut; David McGuire, Sandra J. Staub, ACLU Foundation of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut; Lenora M. Lapidus, Galen Sherwin, Women's Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York, on the brief, Equity Legal, Alexandria, Virginia. For Amicus Curiae United States of America, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees: Dennis J. Dimsey, Holly A. Thomas, Attorneys, Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C. For Amici Curiae National Women's Law Center; American Association of University Women; Asian American Justice Center; Business and Professional Women's Foundation; California Women's Law Center; Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund; Feminist Majority Foundation; Legal Aid Society — Employment Law Center; Legal Voice; National Association for Girls and Women in Sport; National Association of Commissions for Women; National Association of Social Workers, National and Connecticut Chapter; National Council of Jewish Women; National Council of La Raza; National Education Association; National Partnership for Women & Families; Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law; Southwest Women's Law Center; Women's Law Center of Maryland; Women's Law Project; and Women's Sports Foundation, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees: Lauren B. Fletcher, Craig E. Davis, Jasmine S. McGhee, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; Fatima Goss Graves, Dina R. Lassow, Neena K. Chaudhry, National Women's Law Center, Washington, D.C.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Edward A. Brill (Susan D. Friedfel, Rebecca L. Berkebile, on the brief), Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, Inc., in support of Defendant-Appellant: Lawrence J. Joseph, Esq., Washington, D.C. *1
    Case Number: 10-3302-cv

    Cite as: Biediger v. Quinnipiac University, 10-3302-cv, NYLJ 1202566595593, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided August 7, 2012)Before: Winter, Raggi, and Chin, C

  • September 9, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Attorneys, Bar Groups Draw on 9/11 Experience To Aid Legal Community Devastated by Katrina

    Fifty lawyers experienced in emergency pro bono service after the terrorist attacks on Manhattan four years ago held a summit yesterday to begin planning organized aid to victims of Hurricane

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  • April 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Let's Get Small

    The economy has emerged from recession—but some Big Law litigators are still downsizing, leaving Am Law 200 digs to join boutique firms or to start their own shops. In

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  • September 7, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Desperately Seeking Seniors

    When Howrey decided to open a New York office, CEO Robert Ruyak knew that the firm needed lawyers wise to the ways of the city. So three months after the November launch, Ruyak convinced three self

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  • June 21, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    News in Brief

    Phila. Lawyers Settle Texas Whistleblower Suit for $2.15 Mil. Two Philadelphia lawyers litigating alongside the attorney general of Texas secured a $2.15 million settlement last

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  • Vig v. The New York Hairspray Co. LP, 114613/07

    Publication Date: 2009-09-21
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    Date Filed: 2009-09-15
    Court: Appellate Division, 1st Dept
    Judge: Rolando Acosta
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    Case Number: 114613/07

    Before: Saxe, J.P.; Buckley, McGuire, Moskkowitz, Acosta, JJ. APPELLATE DIVISION FIRST DEPARTMENT Spizz & Cooper, LLP, Mineola (Harvey W. Spizz of counsel), for appel

  • January 30, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Under New Management: Edwards Wildman Announces Leadership Change

    Born of an October 2011 merger, Edwards Wildman Palmer announced the election of a new leadership team triumvirate Monday. The firm's new leaders are spread between offices in Chicago, Hartfo

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  • March 29, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Corporation Counsel Clerkship Is Announced

    New York City's Law Department has announced that Andrew Fine is the second clerk for its new, privately funded one-year clerkship program. Fine, a third-year student at New York University S

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  • October 27, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Practically Speaking: Mediation

    As an employment lawyer, Proskauer Rose partner Bettina Plevan has become something of a convert to mediation. In the last five years, she has short-circuited dozens of lawsuits by reaching me

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