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  • December 29, 2005 | National Law Journal

    SEC Outsourcing Expands, Prompts Queries

    Pamela A. MacLean [email protected] NEW YORK-For at least 30 years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has relied on private lawyers for some corporate misconduct invest

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  • April 2, 2003 | The Recorder

    Coming to Terms

    Soon after getting an offer to sell their 12-year-old audio book business in 1996, Michael and Deborah Raffin Viner retained corporate transactional lawyer Charles Sweet to negotiate a deal fo

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  • August 19, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Tiffany and eBay Clash Over Sales of Fake Goods

    Tiffany and eBay are in court over a major question for Internet commerce: At what point does the online auction house bear responsibility for fake goods sold on its site?EBay is a fle

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  • January 31, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Professional Liability

    Periodically it is quite helpful to review the law of legal malpractice, not only to be able effectively to litigate a claim or defense but, more significantly, in the process of rendering pro

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  • September 15, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Pro Bono: Time Well Spent

    Have you ever heard anyone say pro bono work is a bad thing? Representatives from the 20 firms that supplied their 2002 pro bono statistics to Texas Lawyer say they believe in giving ba

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  • April 5, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Can Outside Firms Get Over the Discount Mentality?

    You could say it’s the epitome of the corporate world’s new normal: The general counsel of a bank that’s suffered no shortage of mortgage-related legal work since t

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  • September 30, 2003 | The Recorder

    Federal Circuit Tweaks 'Festo' Decision Again

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday ruled that judges, not juries, are to decide whether a patent holder can use a key intellectual property protection in patent disput

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  • April 26, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Terror Suspect Loses Bid on U.S. Document Production Defense lawyers for accused U.S. embassy bomber Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani lost their bid Friday to force government pro

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  • December 23, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    Feds Make ArrestsMike Gibson, a veteran criminal defense lawyer and partner in Dallas' Burleson Pate & Gibson, represents all four brothers arrested in Dallas on Dec. 18 on

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  • October 28, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Law firms making layoffs heed lessons of '01

    Clifford Chance's latest round of attorney layoffs unfolded according to a carefully choreographed sequence of events. Law firm leaders spent a month developing a plan for how to tell

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