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  • July 26, 2004 | New York Law Journal

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    Ex-Brokerage Assistant Fined $2,000 in Stewart Case A former brokerage assistant who helped Martha Stewart make her fateful stock trade and later became a government witness was

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  • January 26, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Part of Parents' Obesity Suit Against McDonalds Revived

    A federal appeals court has given parents who blamed McDonald's for their children's obesity a ray of hope for their lawsuit.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday reinstated cl

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  • August 8, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Design Defect Theory Upheld in Tobacco Suit

    The daughter and husband of a woman who died of lung cancer can proceed with their lawsuit against Philip Morris and other tobacco companies under a design-defect theory and can seek punitive

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  • March 26, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Consumer-Created Ads Cause Grief for Companies

    Companies caught up in the YouTube craze are eager to put videos created by consumers on their Web sites and in TV spots -- but their attorneys are trying to restrain them long enough to explai

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  • July 28, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Verizon, Yellow Book Square Off in Court Over False-Ad Claim

    A trial began Monday in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., pitting Verizon's yellow pages unit against its chief independent rival, Yellow Book USA.Verizon Directories Corp., a subsidiar

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  • June 1, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

    He's No PAC Man

    In raising money for his White House bid, Barack Obama has posed as an outsider in a town full of insiders. Instead of cozying up to Washington's influence peddlers, the junior senator from Il

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  • January 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    A Bridge Too Far?

    Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. is destined to enter the annals of merger enforcement law. In mid-November the company appeared before the five members of the Federal Trade Comm

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  • September 10, 2002 | National Law Journal

    S&L Cases Moving, but Government Draws Flak

    After years of litigation, federal judges have begun to issue decisions on liability or damages in more than a dozen individual Winstar lawsuits brought by the owners of savings and loa

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  • August 9, 1999 | Legal Times

    FIRMS SPEND ON BUSH

    According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which gathered the data from filings with the Federal Election Commission, the top five law firm contributors to presidential candidates have overwhelm

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  • June 26, 2003 | The Recorder

    Bingham, Riordan Called 'Fantastic Fit'

    The recently announced merger between Bingham McCutchen and Riordan & McKinzie may not be a merger of equals, but it appears to serve an equally critical function for each firm.For

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