• February 22, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    2028: An Inmate Odyssey

    More than three years after former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling reported to federal prison to begin serving a quarter-century sentence, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in his ap

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  • Grand Canyon Trust v. United States Bureau of Reclamation

    Publication Date: 2012-08-13
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-08-13
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: David G. Campbell, District Judge, Presiding Before: Ferdinand F. Fernandez, Ronald M. Gould, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: McCrystie Adams (argued), Earthjustice, Denver, Colorado, and Neil Levine, Grand Canyon Trust, Denver, Colorado, for the appellant-plaintiff.
    for defendant: Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General, Mark R. Haag and David C. Shilton (argued), Environmental & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the appellees-defendants. Kenneth C. Slowinski and Nicole D. Klobas, Arizona Department of Water Resources, Legal Division, Phoenix, Arizona; Kamala D. Harris, California Attorney General, Kathleen A. Kenealy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Gary E. Tavetian, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California; John W. Suthers, Colorado Attorney General, and Karen M. Kwon (argued), First Assistant Attorney General, Denver, Colorado; Catherine Cortez Maso, Nevada Attorney General, and Jennifer T. Crandell, Senior Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Las Vegas, Nevada; Dana R. Walsh, Southern Nevada Water Authority, Las Vegas, Nevada; Gary K. King, New Mexico Attorney General, Stephen R. Farris, Assistant Attorney General, Anne Moore, Assistant Attorney General, and Amy Haas, Special Assistant Attorney General, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Mark L. Shurtleff, Utah Attorney General, Norman K. Johnson, Natural Resources Division Chief, and Michael M. Quealy, Assistant Attorney General, Salt Lake City, Utah; Gregory A. Phillips, Attorney General, Peter K. Michael, Chief Deputy Attorney General, and Jeremiah I. Williamson, Assistant Attorney General, Cheyenne, Wyoming; Kathy Robb, Hunton & Williams LLP, New York, New York; Jay M. Johnson and Suzanne Ticknor, Central Arizona Project, Phoenix, Arizona; Marcia L. Scully, Joseph A. Vanderhorst, and Peter E. Von Hamm, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; John P. Carter, Horton, Knox, Carter & Foote, El Centro, California; Bennett W. Raley, Trout, Raley, Montaño, Witwer & Freeman, P.C., Denver, Colorado, for the intervenors-appellees.

    Case Number: No. 11-16326

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 9178 GRAND CANYON TRUST, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES BUREAU OF RECLAMATION;

  • October 8, 2013 | Daily Report Online

    Video Spy Exception Doesn't Exist, Say Justices

    A decision issued Monday by the Georgia Supreme Court raises questions about the legality of home video surveillance. The issue came up in a peculiar divorce case in which a woman rec

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  • April 25, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Am Law Alums Mike Lee and Ted Cruz Give GOP Feisty Face

    During the oral arguments last year in the U.S. Supreme Court case that sought to invalidate the Democratic health care law, Mike Lee watched from a familiar vantage point. The f

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  • April 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    High Stakes, Huge Money

    As with any practice, victory in IP litigation can be defined a number of ways. Perhaps it comes in the form of a multimillion-dollar jury verdict. Or as a judge's ruling affirming the validity of

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  • March 19, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Opinions Approved for Publication

    STATE COURT CASES ADMINISTRATIVE LAW — COMPLIANCE 01-2-3110 Department of Environmental Protection v. Mazza and Sons Inc. , App. Div. (Skillman, P.J.A.D.) (23

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  • October 7, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Q&A: Neil H. Abramson

    Neil H. Abramson, 47, is a partner at a big-time New York law firm, Proskauer Rose, who represents a wide variety of employers in collective bargaining and labor a

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  • April 28, 2003 | Legal Times

    Be Positive About Trusts

    The typical personal trust used in the United States today for wealth transfers is designed to protect against two risks: a loss of value due to estate and gift taxes, and the shortcomin

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  • February 25, 2013 | Legal Tech Newsletter

    10 Tips to Build a Trial Presentation Database

    Back in the analog days, a parade of lawyers and paralegals would march into the courtroom right before a trial started, carrying dozens of bankers' boxes filled with documents and other evid

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  • June 7, 2005 | Lawfirminc.

    Get the Most Out of VoIP

    As law firms upgrade their internal phone systems, many are taking advantage of new technology based on the same standards as the Internet. Known as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), it off

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