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  • August 15, 2011 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF

    CRACK RULES RETROACTIVE A federal appeals court has ruled that the new, more lenient sentencing rules for crack cocaine must be applied retroactively so that every

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  • People v Morrison

    Publication Date: 2010-03-11
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    Court: Appellate Division, 3rd Dept
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    Case Number: 101805

    Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Third Judicial Department Decided and Entered: March 11, 2010 101805 THE PEOPL

  • June 3, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Thomas classmates doubt '15-cent degree'

    Why couldn't Clarence Thomas get a job with a big-city law firm when he graduated from Yale in 1974 It's not an idle question. That "time of dashed hopes and expectations," as Thomas

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  • July 13, 2007 |

    IP Litigation: Poised for Takeoff?

    Patent litigation held steady in 2006, but was it the calm before the storm? The top firms in our seventh annual patent litigation survey showed only a slight bump up in work last year. In 2006 to

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  • March 20, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Judge Dismisses Refco Shareholder Suit Against Law Firm, Partner

    WIith Wall Street under attack and investors seeking vengeance, law firms can breathe a little easier following a ruling by Southern District Judge Gerard E. Lynch in the Refco securitie

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  • November 27, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Bankruptcy trustee suits cause increasing concern for law firms

    In April 2003, Steven Garfinkel, the chief financial officer of DVI Inc., wrote a memo to Chief Executive Officer Michael O'Hanlon about the crushing liquidity crisis facing the health care f

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  • April 28, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Mayer Brown Not Liable for Losses of Refco Investors, 2nd Circuit Decides

    Secondary actors such as attorneys can only be held liable for false statements in private damages actions under the securities laws if the statements are attributable to them at the time they are

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  • February 28, 2005 | National Law Journal

    SEC's fair disclosure regulation to face test

    Washington-A California business-software company will face off with the Securities and Exchange Commission in a New York federal court next month over the boundaries of the federal agen

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  • People v. Poulsom

    Publication Date: 2013-02-01
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    Date Filed: 2013-01-31
    Court: C.A. 4th
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julia L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Lilia E. Garcia and Lynne G. McGinnis, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Laurel M. Nelson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. D060779

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 1261THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent,v.MICHAEL POULSOM, Defendant and Appella

  • November 3, 2008 | The Recorder

    Weighing Attorney-Client Arbitration

    SAN FRANCISCO — La Jolla physician Richard Schatz wants his $170,000 fee dispute with Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis to go before a jury. But the l

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