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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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  • December 22, 2009 | Daily Business Review

    Will more firms re-defer their incoming first-years?

    After Nixon Peabody announced it would again defer two-thirds of first-year associates already deferred until January, other firms were contacted to see if they were making any last-minute scheduli

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