• May 14, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Strong v. Dubin

    Before: Andrias, J.P., Sweeny, Nardelli, Catterson and DeGrasse, JJ. Decided: May 13; 350078/05 Lee A. Rubenstein, New York, and Blank Rome, LLP, New York (Leonard G

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  • September 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Powers of Appointment: An Introduction

    Powers of appointment are versatile estate planning tools that permit the donor and his or her family to modify or adapt an existing estate plan to meet the family's changing economic and personal

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  • May 25, 2007 | Legal Times

    Smaller law firms mull associate salary hikes

    In the first weeks after a couple of local stalwarts raised their starting salaries for first-year associates to $160,000, Washington, D.C.'s largest firms are in a holding pattern, all nervo

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  • October 6, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    Public broadcasting pioneer WNET will be relocating its headquarters to 825 Eighth Ave., known as Worldwide Plaza, by the start of 2011. WNET, the parent company of stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21, wi

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  • May 22, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Secret for Success on District Court: Serve First as a Magistrate

    The federal bench in New Jersey has more former magistrates than any of the 93 other district courts in the country, and it looks like the state's practitioners like it that way. T

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  • May 7, 2007 |

    News in Brief

    Ignoring the recommendation of the State Ethics Commission, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has entered an order that paves the way for Montgomery County Republican Mike L. Krancer to remain on this

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  • May 14, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Reality of Wolf Block Closing Starts to Hit Home

    The halls are almost ghostly and tears are still being shed by those who remain, but the humor of the staff members still scattered throughout the floors of Wolf Block's Philadelphia office is evid

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  • December 23, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    In 2011, New Offices, Leaders for Midsized Firms

    After a relatively uneventful year in 2010, 2011 saw the creation of several new firms, as well as a number of new office openings and leadership transitions among midsized firms across the

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  • February 4, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    ABA Votes to Favor Curbs on Bush's Military Tribunals

    Despite a plea to table the motion from the U.S. Solicitor General, the American Bar Association house of delegates overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging President Bush to set guid

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  • March 28, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Arbitration

    Arbitration is a "creature of contract." A party cannot be compelled to arbitrate, absent agreement, and parties generally may determine the scope and method for the arbitration proceedings to

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