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  • November 23, 2005 | National Law Journal

    The Bird Flu of Corporate Liability

    Every corporate chief executive officer and corporate counsel should read the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in Reynolds v. Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., nos. 03-35

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  • July 31, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    A Sense of Relief George Parnham, a lawyer for Andrea P. Yates, says what felt like a 50-pound weight was lifted off his shoulders on July 26 when a jury in 230th District Judge

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  • March 25, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

    Litigator of the Week: A Whooping Victory

    James B. Blackburn Jr. and his five-lawyer team won a water-rights victory benefitting a flock of whooping cranes that fly each year from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast for winter refuge. But

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  • June 8, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Abortion case garners attention

    Attorneys S. Fenn Little Jr. and Jonathan D. Crumly earn most of their money from construction law and criminal defense cases. But their passion is pressing litigation to protect religious fr

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  • December 1, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    Eight Is Enough

    ow lawyers do their jobs—from the type of advice they give clients to the calculation of fees—moves to the fore in the new U.S. Supreme Court term in eight cases that could dram

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  • May 2, 2008 | The Recorder

    Calif. ruling addresses arbitrator disclosures

    Arbitrators can't be disqualified from a case for disclosing information about themselves that wasn't required to be revealed in the first place, a a class="linelink" href=" http://www.court

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  • August 27, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    On The Rise: Saba Ashraf

    Like the general manager of a team seeking that single, pivotal athlete who will get the team to the playoffs, Troutman Sanders partner Stephen E. Lewis needed a tax lawyer for his corporate

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  • March 5, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Prepacks reduce time and costs of business filings

    Prepackaged business bankruptcies, or "prepacks," can dramatically reduce costs and increase the likelihood of success compared to normal business reorganizations. In 2005, the average prepack r

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  • May 20, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Public Interest Projects

    Fighting BiasArmy National Guard Major and attorney Mathew B. Tully, who nearly lost his life in Manhattan on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, will be honored by the Ame

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  • March 12, 2013 | Daily Report Online

    Med-mal expert doesn't have chops to save suit

    The Court of Appeals of Georgia has upheld the dismissal of a medical malpractice suit over the death of a 10-month-old boy, saying the physician who verified the plaintiffs' complaint did no

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