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  • September 6, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Computer Voir Dire

    A new computer software program that helps weed out biased jurors is raising a dilemma for lawyers: Should they go with their gut instinct when picking jurors, or listen to a computer?Do

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  • February 8, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Plaintiffs' firms mount mass attack on Toyota

    A contingent of small firms with expertise in class actions and products liability litigation are behind a legal onslaught against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. following reports of sudden accelerati

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  • February 7, 2007 |

    SEC Delays Rulemaking on Director Nominations by Shareholders

    Confusion over dissent director nominees and their access to corporate ballots will continue for at least one more round of annual meetings.A measure aimed at clarifying rules for shareholde

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  • December 2, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    For Climate Work, Firms Have High Expectations

    A few years ago, clients asked Peter L. Gray if climate change was real. These days, the McKenna Long & Aldridge attorney in Washington fields questions about the business and law of cl

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  • March 8, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    City Bar Forms Judicial Selection Task Force The New York City Bar Association has created a task force to study the judicial selection process in New York and issue reco

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  • August 7, 2006 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    UPDATESRonald S. Cooper has left his post as a partner with Washington-based Steptoe & Johnson to become general counsel of the U.S. Equal Emp

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  • February 6, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    FDA Move May Aid Defense

    The Food and Drug Administration may only be blowing smoke by prefacing a new drug-labeling rule with a purported pre-emption of state court suits against drug makers, but it's gotten so

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  • May 4, 2012 | Daily Report Online

    Smith, Gambrell & Russell

    Last year was a solid one for the firm, a sentiment echoed by its managing partner Stephen M. Forte. The firm maintained its size, posting revenue numbers just north of flat but netting healt

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  • December 27, 2004 | Daily Report Online

    No Pollyanna

    Jonathan Ringel [email protected] A visitor to the chambers of Presiding Justice Leah Ward Sears of the Georgia Supreme Court probably will notice a framed copy of the Ten Comma

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  • May 14, 2013 | Daily Report Online

    Large Firms' Ethical Screens Jeopardized by Ruling, Two Say

    The Georgia attorney general and a private lawyer are asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling that prohibits public defenders within the same circuit from representing co-defe

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