• August 18, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Existing Clients Mean Business

    Dooley is an attorney and freelance writer in Atlanta. Though strut-your-stuff maneuvers such as branding campaigns, fancy logos and elaborate public relations events are now co

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  • May 12, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Lawyers See Data 'Fear Factor' Rising

    The recent wave of personal data thefts from companies across the United States has lawyers bracing for a new round of lawsuits over how businesses safeguard the information. Attorneys

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  • July 30, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Verdict in Ladder Design Cut by $100 Mil.

    A judge has cut one of the largest civil verdicts in Virginia history - $116 million over the design of a fire escape ladder - by about $100 million. In 1999, after Walter Kidde Po

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  • June 11, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    Courts Struggle with Immunity Issues in Employment Discrimination Suits

    Two New York federal courts recently issued conflicting opinions concerning one of the most vexing issues in employment law -- whether states are immune under the Eleventh Amendment from federal st

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  • March 6, 2003 | National Law Journal

    New Web Site Disclosure Rules From SEC

    Perhaps the Securities and Exchange Commission already knew it was time to be as technologically savvy as the business and financial world it regulated. Perhaps all of this would have happened

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  • November 12, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    Dangerous Liaisons

    An American executive supervising the building of a dam in South America is kidnapped by Marxist revolutionaries who have turned to hostage-taking and drug-running to finance their opera

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  • December 19, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Business Is More His Calling Than Law

    IN-HOUSE COUNSEL: Francis X. Frantz, Alltel Corp., Little Rock, Ark.TITLE: Executive vice president of external affairs, general counsel and secretaryAGE:

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  • September 3, 2002 | Legal Times

    The Law Firm Targets

    Forty-five law firms from Dusseldorf to Omaha now find themselves targets of a major discovery effort by Neal Batson, the court-appointed examiner investigating Enron's fall. Batson has asked

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  • October 13, 2003 | Legal Times

    Ruffin Cordell

    Although Ruffin Cordell is not yet 40 years old, he has already built a reputation as one of the top intellectual property litigators in the D.C. area, if not the nation.The soft-spoke

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  • November 20, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    Paper Tigers

    When the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed earlier this year, opponents of multidisciplinary practice danced a jig. The law seemed to be the death knell of MDP -- that grand vision of accountants

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