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  • December 27, 2004 | The Recorder

    Justices Allow Punitives in Contract Case

    The state Supreme Court on Thursday gave businesses a new incentive to be honest by ruling that they could be hit with punitive damages for fraudulently breaching contracts.The 6-1 dec

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  • June 17, 1999 | The Recorder

    Endangered Species?

    For someone just coldcocked by the financial pitfalls of working for a mid-size law firm, Richard Stratton doesn't show it. Two months ago, Stratton -- along with 63 other lawyers -- was tos

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  • February 23, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    High Court Suspends Brooklyn Surrogate The Court of Appeals yesterday suspended Brooklyn Surrogate Michael H. Feinberg with pay pending a ruling on whether the judge sho

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  • July 16, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firm Roundup

    O'Melveny Sues Maker of Bratz Dolls for Unpaid Legal Fees O'Melveny & Myers has filed suit against MGA Entertainment seeking payment of $10.2 millio

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  • April 24, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Quinn Emanuel Sharpens N.Y. Edge

    The lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges occasionally wear T-shirts and jeans to work, but they have a decidedly New York style.The Los Angeles-based law firm is geari

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  • June 6, 2011 | National Law Journal

    In fee case, frivolity is serious business

    A defendant facing frivolous and non-frivolous claims in a civil rights lawsuit may recover only the portion of his attorney's fees attributable to the frivolous claim, a unanimous Supreme

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  • May 4, 2007 | The Recorder

    Muy RICO! Is Microsoft the Mob?

    Legal Pad � the law blog that refuses to call itself a blawg! View all the latest posts on the main page or read a la carte: b

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  • November 10, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Associates Class of 2011

    Hiring by New Jersey law firms is on a steady swing back nearly to prerecession levels, judging by the anecdotal evidence assembled in this, our annual new-associates magazine. This year's

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  • August 22, 2003 | The Recorder

    Fights Loom Over Changes in Sentencing

    It doesn't quite rival Napoleon versus the Duke of Wellington, but it could come close.Defense attorneys in the Northern District are gearing up for a fight over the so-called Feeney A

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  • October 27, 2004 | The Recorder

    Burglar Gets a Third Crack at Lawyer's Drug Charge

    The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday announced that it would rehear for the third time a case involving a man who claims his burglary conviction is flawed because his trial court

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