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June 20, 2006 | Daily Report Online

The Billable Hour's Staying Power

As Abraham Lincoln once said, "A lawyer's advice is his stock in trade." That short phrase has been repeated by attorneys throughout the years and is etched on brass plaques hanging in law firms wo

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November 17, 2010 | The American Lawyer

BofA Settles Sex Discrimination Claim by Million-Dollar-A-Year Female Merrill Broker

We've spilled plenty of ink over the alleged disclosure failures in Bank of America's shotgun marriage to Merrill Lynch in January 2009--from a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/digestTAL.jsp?id=12024

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Buettner v. Arch Coal Sales Co., Inc.

Publication Date: 2000-06-30
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Date Filed: 2000-06-26
Court: 8th Cir.
Judge: BOWMAN and HANSEN, Circuit Judges, and CARMAN, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade
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Case Number: No. 99-3348

The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. CARMAN, Chief Judge.Appellant, Mary Buettner (Buettner), appeals from the order of the United States District Co

January 26, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

With Charity for All?

In early 2003, Barron "Buzz" Tenny, the executive vice president and general counsel of the New York-based Ford Foundation, sat down with the text of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the 2002 corporate

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In Re: Silva; Ford Motor Credit Co. LLC v. Silva

Publication Date: 2012-11-12
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Court: Federal Court
Judge: Weil, J.
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Case Number: 10-33586

March 27, 2002 | Daily Report Online

H&K Partner: Firm Is 'in Peril,' Faces Exodus

Tony Doris [email protected] MIAMI-Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride, the former managing partner of Holland & Knight, took the microphone last mon

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November 22, 2004 | National Law Journal

Big Firms Growing, But Just Barely

Is this what they mean by a jobless recovery? The nation's 250 largest law firms continued to grow last year, but just barely. The attorney head count inched up by 1.5 percent, compar

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September 2, 2003 | Alm

Parties Gear Up For Early Supreme Court Start

On most September days, the majestic U.S. Supreme Court chamber is empty except for the occasional lecture given to tourists about the architecture and history of the courtroom. But on

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February 17, 2000 | The American Lawyer

The Backstage Bar

Flashes exploded, and camera motor drives clattered like machine guns every time Bonnie Eskenazi stepped from the mahogany-paneled inner sanctum of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger

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Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc.

Publication Date: 2010-09-10
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Date Filed: 2010-09-10
Court: 9th Cir.
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory A. Beck (argued) and Deepak Gupta of the Public Citizen Litigation Group, for plaintiff-appellee Timothy S. Vernor. Randi W. Singer, Mark J. Fiore, and Lisa R. Eskow of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, for amicus curiae eBay Inc. Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Sherwin Siy and John Bergmayer of Public Knowledge, for amicus curiae American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, Consumer Federation of America, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, and U.S. PIRG. Scott E. Bain, Keith Kupferschmid, and Mark Bohannon, for amicus curiae Software & Information Industry Association. Robert H. Rotstein, Patricia H. Benson, and J. Matthew Williams of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, for amicus curiae Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
for defendant: Jerome B. Falk (argued), Clara J. Shin, and Blake J. Lawit of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin P.C., and Michael A. Jacobs and George C. Harris of Morrison & Foerster LLP, for defendant-appellant Autodesk, Inc.
Case Number: No. 09-35969

Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 11903TIMOTHY S. VERNOR, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. AUTODESK, INC., Defendant-Appellant. p