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  • Robert Writt v. Shell Oil Company and Shell International, E&P, Inc

    Publication Date: 2013-02-25
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    Date Filed: 2013-02-14
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 1
    Judge: Harvey Brown Justice
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: NO. 01-11-00201-CV

    DISSENTING OPINIONFor more than one hundred years, Texas defamation law has artfully balanced two fundamental interests: a citizen's right to his good name and a citizen's right to free speec

  • December 1, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Final Enron Report Criticizes V&E and Andrews & Kurth

    Nearly two years after Enron Corp. filed a Chapter 11 in the wake of a massive drop in its stock price, a bankruptcy examiner's fourth and final report concludes that outside lawyers at Vinson

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  • June 1, 2003 | Legaltech News

    Consultants & Training

    It's sometimes said that a consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is, and charges you for it. That is exactly what a consultant to small law firms does — eve

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  • May 26, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Verdicts & Settlements

    Houston-based Hanover Compressor Co. announced on May 13 it had reached a settlement in a shareholder class-action suit. Attorneys for the shareholders and the company estimate the settlement

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  • September 23, 2003 | Legal Times

    The Fight Within

    Since its creation in 1957, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has pushed to deliver the racial equality promised by landmark civil rights legislation.But 46 y

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  • September 20, 2004 | Special To Law.Com

    A Decade as a Solo

    Eleven years ago next month, I founded my law firm, the Law Offices of Carolyn Elefant. As I write this retrospective on my practice as my introductory column for smallfirmbusiness.com, I'd li

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  • April 1, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    The IRS and the Avian Flu

    Editor's note: The following are hypothetical case studies, with fictional managers and fictional businesses, which provide a way for executives to learn more about some of the situations t

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  • Outsource International, Inc. v. Barton and Barton's Staffing Solutions, Inc.

    Publication Date: 1999-09-17
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    Date Filed: 1999-09-17
    Court: The United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit
    Judge: Posner, Chief Judge, and Bauer, and Kanne, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: No. 98-2808

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. Bauer, Circuit Judge. In May 1998, Outsource International, Inc. ("Outsource," "OSI," or the "EMPLO

  • May 1, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Paul Weiss, Jones Day, Akin Gump, Winston & Strawn on Fast Food Deal Pushed by investor Nelson Peltz, Ohio-based Wendy's International Inc. has agreed to be purchased for $2

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  • January 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Twitter's Hard Lesson

    Twitter has been in the news recently for its efforts to protect the term "tweet" as a trademark in the face of uses of the word by a number of companies offering complementary services i

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