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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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  • April 30, 2004 | Legal Times

    After Wilmer-Hale Merger, Who's Next?

    Wilmer Cutler Pickering's merger with Boston's Hale and Dorr has lawyers buzzing about the possibility of a string of similar unions involving D.C. firms.Law firm managers and consulta

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  • November 5, 2008 | Legal Times

    Justices and lawyers debate TV expletives, without uttering any

    The Supreme Court appeared far from a consensus Tuesday on whether the Federal Communication Commission's crackdown on broadcasters who allow "fleeting expletives" to reach the airwaves shoul

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  • August 23, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Lawyers Learn From HomeBanc's Demise

    Even though a bankruptcy judge in Delaware this week saved them from financial ruin, real estate closing attorneys said they learned a powerful lesson from the collapse of HomeBanc Corp. -- never a

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  • October 18, 2004 | Daily Report Online

    The Battle to End Free Music

    There's a Jefferson Starship song from 1970 where Paul Kantner imparts his vision of a space colony Utopia. "Free music, the day is on its way," he intones on a Jerry Garcia-meets-Robert Hein

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  • August 5, 2003 | The Recorder

    Justices Bless Method Gays Use to Adopt

    Second-parent adoptions, widely used by same-sex couples to form families, were declared legal Monday by the California Supreme Court.The 6-1 ruling legitimizes as many as 20,000 adopt

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  • December 1, 2010 | Daily Report Online

    Unfair trial ruling for attorney reversed

    A Georgia Court of Appeals panel has reinstated a $2.757 million legal malpractice verdict against Dahlonega lawyer Steven K. Leibel, whose former client said he missed a key deadline in her

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  • January 13, 2003 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    OCEAN-GOING ATTORNEY CAN'T KEEP CASE AFLOATAfter joining the Marin Yacht Club in San Rafael in 1981, now-retired lawyer John Ford registered several complaints over the years.

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  • October 11, 2004 | The Recorder

    Time to Cram?

    In its recent decision in Till v. SCS Credit Corp., 124 S. Ct. 1951 (2004), the U.S. Supreme Court has waded into murky waters over the meaning of the Bankruptcy Code's "cram-down" prov

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  • August 22, 2005 | Daily Report Online

    Just so many Hours

    If you were to construct a Venn diagram of this year's On the Rise picks, you'd be hard-pressed to find an obvious, singular trait they share. As you might expect, there are those on the list

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