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  • March 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    The Crack-Up

    At the end, when his longtime client had found out about the phony promissory notes and the auditor's lawyer was threatening to turn him in, when the client escrow accounts had been p

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  • Davis v. Strack

    Publication Date: 2001-10-31
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    Date Filed: 2001-10-29
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: Leval, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 00-2286

    Argued: April 20, 2001Petitioner appeals from the denial by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Berman, J.) of his petition to set aside his New York state convi

  • May 7, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Contingency cases buoy Boies Schiller

    David Boies makes it out to Las Vegas a few times a year. In February he checked into the Encore, the newest hotel developed by Steve Wynn a client on the Strip. Boies had some legal business

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  • Anonymous v. JPMorgan Chase Co.

    Publication Date: 2005-11-16
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    U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Judge Koeltl This is a motion to stay these proceedings pending arbitration. The plaintiff, Anonymous, filed the Comp

  • Horton Homes, Inc. v. Brooks

    Publication Date: 2001-07-23
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    Date Filed: 2001-07-13
    Court: Ala. Sup. Ct.
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    Case Number: 1000346

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. HOUSTON, Justice.In July 1998, Scott Brooks sued Southern Manufactured Homes, Inc., and Horton Homes, Inc. (herein

  • Hooker v. California Department of Transportation

    Publication Date: 2002-02-06
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    Date Filed: 2002-01-31
    Court: Cal.Sup.Ct.
    Judge: Brown, J.
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    Case Number: No. S091601

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. Filed January 31, 2002 This is the latest in a series of cases in which we have considered whether an employee of

  • October 10, 2008 | Legal Times

    Recusal Report

    In a 1952 Supreme Court decision, the late Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote, "It is desirable to state why one takes himself out of a case." The justices on the curren

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  • China National Chartering Corp. v. Pactrans Air & Sea, Inc., 06 Civ. 13107 (LAK)

    Publication Date: 2012-09-05
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff: Patrick F. Lennon, Nancy R. Siegel, Lennon,Murphy, Caulfield & Phillips, LLP
    for defendant: Attorney for Non-Party PAC Logistics Service Co., Inc.: James M. Maloney Attorney for Defendant-Third-Party Plaintiff Pactrans Air & Sea, Inc.: Bill Xian Feng Zou
    Case Number: 06 Civ. 13107 (LAK)

    Cite as: China National Chartering Corp. v. Pactrans Air & Sea, Inc., 06 Civ. 13107 (LAK), NYLJ 1202570271765, at *1 (SDNY, Decided July 31, 2012)Dist

  • August 23, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Paula Deen Race Case: From Demand to Dismissal

    On July 22, local solo practitioner Wesley Woolf and Matthew Billips, of four-lawyer Atlanta employment litigation shop Bi

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  • December 22, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Tried, But True: Mergers Still Topped Law Firm Changes in 2006

    Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of year-end articles on the Philadelphia legal scene. The next article will focus on thePhiladelphia Bar Association.If you aren't receivin

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