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  • September 7, 2010 | Legal Times

    Dick Cheney's Lawyer Lands a New Gig

    WASHINGTON - David Addington, a longtime top aide and lawyer to former Vice President Dick Cheney, has kept a low profile since his boss left public office in January 2009. Now, he is taking a job wit

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  • February 6, 2009 | Daily Business Review

    Ruden McClosky revenue drops nearly 9 percent

    Fort Lauderdale-based Ruden McClosky saw its revenue drop nearly 9 percent to $85.3 million last year as the firm responded to the economic slowdown with layoffs, according to financial data recent

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  • February 4, 2010 | National Law Journal

    For Estate Lawyers, Expired Tax Raises Questions

    On Jan. 5, after it sunk in that Congress hadn't reinstated the federal estate tax that lapsed on Dec. 31, Chicago lawyer Thomas Handler sent an e-mail to about 2,000 clients for whom his firm prov

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  • October 9, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Dreier Loses Law License Marc S. Dreier, 59, the former sole equity partner of 250-lawyer Dreier LLP who in May pleaded guilty in federal court to selling more than $700

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  • May 31, 2005 | Legaltech News

    Outsourcing Mail Rooms

    What advice would you offer a firm that is considering outsourcing its mail room operations? Bruce WindedahlKraft Foods Global Inc. Northfield, Ill. We outsource

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  • August 4, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Court of Appeals Changes Trusts and Estates Landscapes

    A slight tremor was felt within the trusts and estates bar this past June following the issuance of two significant decisions by the Court of Appeals;

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  • January 26, 2006 | Alm

    Rolling Dice on Indian Law

    Native American law, long a well-established practice area west of the Mississippi, is gaining ground at eastern law firms as tribes displaced in the 19th century seek to reclaim ancestral lan

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  • September 9, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    9/11 and the Law

    On Sept. 11, 2001, commuters streamed into Manhattan under a clear-blue late-summer sky. By the end of the day, a pall of acrid, dark smoke hovered over downtown. Ten years later, the toxic

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  • April 19, 2011 | Rhode Island Law Tribune

    IBM, Represented by Goodwin Procter, Wins Rights to Patents on Employee's Invention

    Companies looking to claim ownership of the inventions of their employees got a boost on Monday when Manhattan federal district court Judge John Koeltl held that IBM owns three patents on an inve

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  • March 22, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Some Banks Time-Barred from WorldCom Class Action The federal judge overseeing securities class action litigation arising from accounting fraud at the former WorldCom Inc. has d

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