• September 26, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Law Firms Massing to Help War Vets

    Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr attorney John Harwood, who was a Marine Corps platoon leader in the Vietnam War, and Nicholas Henry, a third-year law student in Chicago and Iraq veteran, don'

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  • April 3, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Justices Agree to Take Up Case on Forum Shopping

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve whether federal courts must enforce agreements between businesses on where to battle out their disputes. In Atlantic Marine

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  • Fox Television Stations, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission

    Publication Date: 2010-07-13
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Leval, Pooler and Hall, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: CARTER PHILLIPS, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC (R. Clark Wadlow, Jennifer Tatel, David S. Petron, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC; Ellen S. Agress, Maureen A. O'Connell, Fox Television Stations, Inc., New York, NY, on the brief), for petitioner Fox Television Stations, Inc. Robert Corn-Revere, Ronald G. London, Amber L. Husbands, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Washington, DC; Jonathan H. Anschell, Susanna M. Lowy, CBS Broadcasting Inc., New York, NY, for petitioner CBS Broadcasting Inc. Seth P. Waxman, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC; John W. Zucker, ABC, Inc., New York, NY, for petitioners ABC, Inc., WLS Television, Inc., and KTRK Television, Inc. Wade H. Hargrove, Mark J. Prak, David Kushner, Julia Ambrose, Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP, Raleigh, NC, for intervenor ABC Television Affiliates Association. Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Parul P. Desai, Matthew Wood, Media Access Project, Washington, DC, for intervenors Center for Creative Voices and Future of Music Coalition. Michael R. Patrick, Renzulli Law Firm, White Plains, NY; Robert M. O'Neil, J. Joshua Wheeler, Eisha Jain, The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, for amici curiae The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and The Media Institute. Nancy Winkelman, Timothy K. Lewis, Carl A. Solano, Mark Fowler, Jerald Fritz, Henry Geller, Newton N. Minow, James H. Quello, Glen O. Robinson, Kenneth G. Robinson, Jr., Schnader Harrrison Segal & Lewis LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for amici curiae former FCC Commissioners and Officials. Christopher Hansen, Benjamin Sahl, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, for amici curiae American Civil Liberties Union, New York Civil Liberties Union, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Directors Guild of America, First Amendment Project, Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, the National Coalition Against Censorship, National Federation of Community Broadcasters, PEN American Center, Screen Actors Guild, Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, Writers Guild of America, West, Writers Guild of America, East. Steven H. Aden, Patrick A. Trueman, Alliance Defense Fund, Washington, DC; Joel B. Campbell, Law Offices of Richard J. Yrulegui, Fresno, CA, for amici curiae Focus on the Family and Family Research Council. Robert W. Peters, Robin S. Whitehead, Morality in Media, Inc., New York, NY, for amicus curiae Morality in Media, Inc. Robert R. Sparks, Jr., Christopher T. Craig, Sparks & Craig, LLP, McLean, VA, for amicus curiae Parents Television Council. Thomas B. North, St. Ignace, MI, for amicus curiae Decency Enforcement Center for Television.
    for defendant: MIGUEL ESTRADA, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C., (Susan Weiner, NBC Universal, Inc., on the brief) for intervenors NBC Universal Inc. and NBC Telemundo License Co. JACOB LEWIS, Associate General Counsel, for Austin C. Schlick, General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C. (Joseph R. Palmore, Deputy General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC; Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Thomas M. Bondy, Anne Murphy, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, on the brief), for respondents.

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    Before: Leval, Pooler and Hall, C.JJ.Decided: July 13, 2010CARTER PHILLIPS, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC (R. Clark Wadlow

  • September 9, 2002 | Legal Times

    PR Pros Amazed by Pillsbury Press Release

    Big law firms send out press releases all the time. Won a big case. Sponsored a charity basketball game. Brought on a new partner. But there's probably never been a release quite like the one

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  • July 18, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    A Kinder, Gentler SEC?

    Bill Christopher Cox, the next head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, go easier on corporate America than previous chairman William Donaldson? That's the expectation of many in the bu

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  • April 7, 2009 | Legal Times

    President Obama bets on trial judges

    The White House has so far announced three choices for circuit vacancies, and all three are sitting members of federal trial courts. The two most recent nominees, sent to the Senate on April

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  • May 19, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Real Estate Marketplace

    Berkshire Capital Group LLC, an affiliate of the CIT Group, a London real-estate investor, and Lend Lease Real Estate Investments Inc., has purchased the Chelsea, a 204-unit apartment building

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  • June 27, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Cameron Findlay Leaving Medtronic for ADM GC Role

    Archer Daniels Midland Company, the agricultural conglomerate, will soon get its second general counsel in less than a year, having lured Medtronic Inc. GC Cameron Findlay from the world&

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  • June 17, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Minority-Owned Firm Makes Microsoft's Premier List

    Microsoft has updated its Premier Provider Program (PPP) slate of preferred outside counsel, and there’s a significant new player on the 2013 roster. Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan, on

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  • April 24, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Motorola Mobility Scores Against Microsoft, Apple at ITC

    Motorola Mobility started the week off on a high note, winning separate rulings at the U.S. International Trade Commission that both Apple's iPhone and iPad and Microsoft's XBox infringe Moto

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