• September 22, 2004 | Daily Report Online

    Ga. Rep.'s Med-Mal Win Doesn't Soften Reform Stance

    Now that U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey has won a suit in which he was the medical malpractice defendant, one might argue that the Marietta, Ga., Republican's views on tort reform should soften.

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  • October 6, 2009 | National Law Journal

    High Court Debates Value of Attorney-Client Privilege

    A Georgia company's efforts to resist disclosure of communications with its lawyer provoked a rare discussion at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday over the importance of attorney-client privilege.

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  • February 27, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Closed Club

    When Joseph Ryan arrived at Marriott International Inc. in December 1994 as its new general counsel, he inherited an Augean stable of well over 200 law firms. At the time, the bloated legal Ro

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  • March 17, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Enron Probe Examines Firms' Roles

    The Enron examiner is back. And a few law firms can't be too happy about it. R. Neal Batson, the court-appointed examiner investigating the exotic financing schemes that contributed to Enron Corp.'s b

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  • April 14, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Most Delta Creditors Could End Up at the Back of the Line

    If a federal bankruptcy judge decides in the coming days that a pilot strike at Delta Air Lines Inc. has irreparably crippled the carrier, companies that Delta owes money to, such as The Boeing Co.

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  • December 20, 2007 | Legal Times

    DOJ Revs Up Export Prosecutions of Individuals, Companies

    For defense contractors and arms exporters, 2007 is the year the feds turned up the heat.Government agencies report a record number of criminal investigations and prosecutions of individ

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  • June 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Dubai Buys Barneys in Transaction Involving Cleary, Cravath, Skadden Istithmar, the investment branch of the Dubai, United Arab Emirates government, has purchased Barneys New Yo

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  • July 31, 2006 | The Associated Press

    Former Qwest CFO Spared Prison Time

    After issuing a tearful apology for an "error in judgment," former Qwest finance chief Robin Szeliga was sentenced Friday to two years' probation, six months of home detention and a $250,000 fine f

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  • February 15, 2001 | Legal Times

    Vocal Chords

    One segment of Ken Burns' marathon documentary "Jazz," which aired last month, makes the case for strings. Specifically, the film suggests that "Charlie Parker with Strings" offers some of the

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  • September 28, 2012 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton has added Kindon Olsen as an associate on the mechanical/medical devices team in the intellectua

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