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  • September 14, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Celebrating Lawyers in the Arts

    Some people are born to be a ys. Despite the fact that I reportedly tried to get out of trouble at age four by refusing to incriminate myself further and demanding to speak with my a

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  • May 30, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Right to Farm Act Resolves Disputes in Most Densely Populated State

    Farmer Smith operates a dairy farm in Warren County on land his family has farmed for four generations. Last year, a developer constructed 30 new houses surrounding the farm. Farmer Smith's ne

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  • September 1, 2003 | Legal Times

    LBJ, the Stars, and Me

    In the fall of 1965, I had an experience that could have happened only in Washington. At the ripe age of 11, I appeared in a musical revue that was put on by LBJ's White House staff to h

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  • March 28, 2008 | The Recorder

    Finger-Lickin' Legislation

    I try really hard not to throw rocks at legislators. For one thing, they have a very tough job, a very boring job, a job most of us wouldn't take unless they'd stopped hiring at the stee

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  • August 19, 2002 | Legal Times

    Henry Hudson's Journey

    Last Monday morning in Fairfax County Circuit Court: A plaintiff's attorney doesn't have the case law to support his client's argument. Judge Henry Hudson orders a 10-minute recess so the attorney

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  • June 6, 2006 | Legal Times

    Being GC of KB Toys Is More Than Fun and Games

    Scott Hochfelder is general counsel and secretary of KB Toys Inc., which calls itself "the nation's largest mall-based specialty toy retailer." The company runs about 650 stores in 44 states, Gu

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  • October 2, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    Lawyer Nonsuited Dallas lawyer Michael Hurst has been nonsuited from a professional negligence and breach of fiduciary duties suit filed by the bankruptcy trustee for former cli

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  • November 5, 2008 | The Associated Press

    A year after SF Bay oil spill, crew still detained

    SAN FRANCISCO AP - For nearly a year, six Chinese crew members of the cargo ship that crashed into a bridge and spilled 50,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay have been detained by fede

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  • May 4, 2000 | The Recorder

    A Bid for Redemption

    Years of money woes, health problems, prison and virtual exile from the legal world came crashing down on Marvin Mitchelson all at once last week in a witness chair in a California State Bar Court

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  • May 21, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Regulating Fracking: Zoning and States' Interests

    In the August 28, 2012, column in this series, "Natural Gas and Zoning: The Commonwealth Court's Act 13 Decision," David G. Mandelbaum discussed Robinson Township v. Public Ut

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