• June 27, 2011 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF

    RENZI'S NOT IMMUNE The probe into whether former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) traded a vote for his own benefit falls outside the Constitution's speech or debat

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  • March 1, 2009 |

    TOP 10 Litigation Wins of 2008

    By Pamela Sherrid, Theodora Blanchfield, Susan Hansen, Joe Mullin, Joe Rosenbloom, and Todd Stone In the landscape of civil litigation, where only a tiny fraction of disputes are conc

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  • May 17, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    False Marking Frenzy

    Since December, plain-tiffs have sued nearly 150 companies for false t marking, charging that packaging for their products includes references to expired or, in a few cases, inapplicable

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  • August 14, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Antitrust Views of Roberts, Alito Are Still Unclear

    By Carl W. Hittinger Special to the Legal The U.S. Supreme Court is blitzing the country's antitrust laws. Three major antitrust opinions were decided last term

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  • September 26, 2012 | Daily Report Online

    Existence of email evidence in contention

    Contractor Heery International claims that DeKalb County school officials destroyed incriminating emails, but lawyers for the school district say Heery is just upset that it hasn't found the

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  • July 26, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Storming Congress' high walls

    A federal appeals court in Washington rebuked the U.S. Department of Justice three years ago after its raid on the office of then-Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.). Federal investigators had ne

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  • December 28, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Comment Period Begins For Revised Nomination Rules Revisions to procedures to be followed by the Commission on Judicial Nomination when selecting candidates for openings

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  • July 8, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Class Action Web Sites Untested

    A recent decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals bodes well for the legions of plaintiffs' law firms that host class action Web sites, but much remains untested for attorneys using

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  • October 13, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Court Affirms Deferential Role in Reviewing Class Certification Decisions

    Antitrust defendants should pay close attention to the 3rd Circuit's late August decision in Behrend v. Comcast Corp.In Behrend, the court, in an opinion by Senior

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  • May 4, 2012 | Daily Report Online

    Alston & Bird

    A year that started with a lot of uncertainty ended about the same as the prior year for Alston & Bird. The firm's revenue and profit were flat. Profit per equity partner slid from $914,5

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