• April 7, 2003 | Legal Times

    O'Connor on Center Stage at Arguments

    At the end of two hours of oral arguments before the Supreme Court on April 1, the fate of affirmative action appeared to be in the hands of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor 

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  • June 11, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Munger Tolles Bails Out as 'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Faces Contempt Motion

    A federal judge has allowed lawyers at Munger, Tolles & Olson to withdraw as counsel to Joe Francis, founder of the "Girls Gone Wild"

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  • June 1, 2009 |

    IP People on the Move

    Brett Healy, formerly senior IP counsel at eBay, was among five partners to join Web-based firm Virtual Law Partners in March (the others were Dianna DeVore, Gregory Kim, Daniel Meyers, and M. Sharon

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  • October 26, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Jennifer N. Lewis has joined Farrow-Gillespie & Heath in Dallas as an associate. . . . Robert S. Ballentine has joined Burl

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  • June 12, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Hunton & Williams Lures Core Of Rival's Bankruptcy Group

    The fast-growing Miami outpost of Richmond, Va.'s Hunton & Williams has lured away Holland & Knight's three-man bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice group, part of a push to

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  • October 3, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    DeLay Rap Stirs Bad Blood

    The indictment of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) for alleged criminal conspiracy sets up a rematch between the Texas prosecutor pursuing the congressman and his hometown defense lawyer, both o

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  • February 28, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Zuckerman Spaeder (Washington): Francis Carter joins as partner in the firm's home office. Most recently a solo practitioner, he is a former director

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  • June 17, 2002 | Alm

    The Incredible Shrinking Law Library

    Law is a learned profession. Judges and clerks read case reporters. Law students lug around treatises that look thicker than they are long. Litigators flip through codes, digests, legal e

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  • November 1, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Scandal Handlers

    This fall, a web of scandals is emerging in Washington, D.C.-and while that's bad news for the politicians, it means a big payday for top criminal defense lawyers. This time, it's the

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  • September 29, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Florida $145 billion wipeout survives

    A Florida appeals court has announced that it will not hear any more arguments about its decision to throw out a record-setting $145 billion verdict won by a group of Florida smoker

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