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  • March 16, 2011 | Daily Report Online

    Professor vetted for 11th Circuit

    Daisy Hurst Floyd's resume 't fill many of the boxes that are common for nominees for federal appellate judgeships. The Mercer University law professor has never been a judge. She

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  • March 2, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Portrait of a New Partner

    Piece together the observable components of Atlanta's typical new partner, and you get someone a lot like Sutherland Asbill & Brennan's Avital "Avi" Stadler.Granted, some new partners ma

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  • January 26, 2010 | The Recorder

    Smart-Phone Rivals Fight With Patent Suits

    SAN FRANCISCO — The latest hot spot for patent litigation is in your pocket. Smart-phone makers like Apple Inc. and Research in Motion are the target of a recent volley of patent i

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  • January 29, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Judge approves $4 billion criminal plea over BP oil spill

    A U.S. district judge in New Orleans has accepted a $4 billion criminal guilty plea by BP plc over its role in the cata

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  • September 26, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Webcasters Face Retroactive Royalties in October

    Amid much controversy, radio stations attempt to continue to stream their radio broadcasts over the Internet without the consent of the record companies and artists that own the performance ri

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  • November 19, 2012 | National Law Journal

    BP Agrees to Record Penalty in Gulf Oil Spill

    In the summer of 2010, several months after an explosion and fire on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana killed 11 crew members, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. publicly declared, "We

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  • July 13, 2006 | The Associated Press

    ConAgra Recommends PETA-Approved Way to Kill Fowl

    ConAgra Foods Inc., one of the nation's largest packaged foods companies, said Monday it is urging its poultry suppliers to consider slaughtering chickens in a way the People for the Ethical Treatm

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  • Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. v. Franchise Tax Board

    Publication Date: 2012-04-26
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    Date Filed: 2012-04-26
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg, Thomas R. Freeman, Paul S. Chan; Dakessian Law Firm, Akerman Senterfitt, Reed Smith, Mardiros H. Dakessian; The California Credits Group, LaShelle T. Wilson and Mark Danscecs for Plaintiff and Appellant. Winston & Strawn, Charles J. Moll III, Krista M. Enns and Linda T. Coberly for California Taxpayers? Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant. Silverstein & Pomerantz, Amy L. Silverstein and Edwin P. Antolin for Deluxe Corp. as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Edmund G. Brown, Jr., and Kamala D. Harris, Attorneys General, David S. Chaney and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gordon Burns, State Deputy Solicitor General, Paul D. Gifford and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, W. Dean Freeman, Felix E. Leatherwood, Mark P. Richelson and Ronald N. Ito, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. S173860

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 4569 DICON FIBEROPTICS, INC. Plaintiff and Appellant, v. FRANCHISE TAX BOARD, Defendan

  • August 14, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Firms start mad dash for fresh talent

    IT'S A SCARY PROSPECT, meeting with partners at a big firm about a job. But, as one law student who landed a summer position at Latham & Watkins quickly realized, the preinterview jitters

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  • March 4, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Jenkens & Gilchrist In New York Joins Troutman Firm

    Atlanta-based Troutman Sanders has acquired the 91-lawyer New York office of Dallas' Jenkens & Gilchrist. The acquisition is a bold move for Troutman Sanders, which has about 600 l

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