Filter This View

  • January 4, 2010 | Focus Europe

    Book of Business

    table xmlns:saxon="http://saxon.sf.net/" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:k4="http://www.vjoon.com/K4Export/1.4.2" xmlns:map="urn:ma

    1 minute read

  • Brown v. Philip Morris, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2001-05-17
    Court: 3rd Cir.
    Judge: Roth, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 99-1931

    Argued January 19, 2001OPINION OF THE COURTMentholated tobacco products apparently pose greater health risks than non-mentholated ones. Plaintif fs, a group of African-Americans, brought a civil

  • May 5, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Firms looking to the next lease

    CHICAGO — Baker & McKenzie and Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal have Chicago building leases that run past 2010, but that doesn't mean they can afford to put off planning for

    1 minute read

  • February 14, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    New Office Update: DLA, McDermott, Sidley Add Outposts as Singapore Weighs Opening Its Doors

    A trio of Am Law 100 firms chose Valentine's Day to announce office openings in new locales. DLA Piper has hired four partners from Thompson & Knight to establish an outpost in Mex

    1 minute read

  • April 14, 2000 | Corporate Counsel

    Testing, Testing A-D-A

    Every day, science is developing better ways to evaluate our physical abilities and even to predict the future course of our health. The Human Genome Project, which has scientists all over th

    1 minute read

  • April 15, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Consumer Products Bill Sets Off a Furor

    The lawmaking process is normally where heated debate and lobbying over a wanna-be law take place. When that wanna-be becomes law by overwhelming vote margins and a presidential signature, the heat

    1 minute read

  • July 18, 2011 | National Law Journal

    How AmLaw 100 Firms Are Using Twitter

    There was a time when big, respectable law firms would never use silly words like Tweet, Twitter and Twitterverse, but that seems to be changing, at least for some firms. In J

    1 minute read

  • May 6, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Firms Facing Tougher Loan Terms

    Law firms needing extra capital from banks to weather the rough economy are finding that the times -- and the terms -- have changed. Many law firms are seeing a slowdown in work and a lengt

    1 minute read

  • October 27, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    This Might Hurt a Bit

    It was a cold day for a beauty contest. On a blustery morning last December, a small army of product liability lawyers tried not to slip on the ice as they made their way to the Plaza Ho

    1 minute read

  • June 28, 2012 | National Law Journal

    In health care and immigration cases, vindication for Verrilli

    Toward the end of his much-criticized oral argument over the health care individual mandate on March 27, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. made a spirited pitch for a little-noticed argum

    1 minute read