• August 20, 2007 | Alm

    ERISA Ruling Revives Benefits Claim by Partner

    A lawyer who rose from secretary to "partner" at a Long Island, N.Y., law firm will get a second chance to show that she is entitled to benefits under the firm's profit-sharing and cash-balanc

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  • October 3, 2005 | Legal Times

    One Lawyer's Amazonian Adventure

    Intellectual property attorneys are used to bucking the odds when suing companies for patent infringement. But for James Gatto, a partner at a href="http://www.influence.biz/cgi-bin/dis

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  • August 22, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    Promotions Greene Broillet & Wheeler (Santa Monica, Calif.): Associate Scott H. Carr has been elevated to partner. The plaintiffs' trial attorney represents client

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  • March 8, 2004 | Alm

    High Court to Weigh HMO Suits

    If a book were written titled HMO Nightmares, Juan Davila and Ruby Calad could have their own chapters. But Davila and Calad are not characters in a novel. They are key figures

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  • April 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firm Roundup

    WilmerHale Outsources Back-Office Functions to Ohio Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr will move back-office functions to Dayton, Ohio, in September. The center is ex

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  • December 20, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Ben Elmore has joined Watt, Beckworth, Thompson & Henneman in Houston as of counsel. . . . The following have joined Lloyd Gosselink Rochel

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  • January 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Good Samaritans, Muddy Waters

    On a sunny day in late November, Marisa Katz drives east from downtown New Orleans to Chalmatte, one of the areas most ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Houses stand forlornly along the road, thei

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  • October 11, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Merchants Sue N.J. Over Funds From Unused Gift Cards, Travelers' Checks

    New Jersey's attempt to grab an extra $79.5 million per year by expanding its authority to seize funds from unused gift cards and travelers' checks is running into legal trouble. Three suit

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  • April 5, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Patterson Belknap Acquires Bingham McCutchen Group Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler has acquired an 11-lawyer real estate practice from the New York office of Boston's Bingh

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  • January 9, 2006 | Legal Times

    Helping Others, Helping Themselves

    On a late-November sunny day in Louisiana, Marisa Katz drives east from downtown New Orleans to Chalmette, one of the areas most ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Houses stand forlornly alon

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