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  • August 26, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Pataki to Soon Announce Appellate Division Picks Governor George E. Pataki is soon expected to announce his choices for four Appellate Division vacancies � two each in th

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  • August 9, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Where Have All the Securities Class Actions Gone?

    The era was marked by mysterious envelopes. When opened, the official-looking documents inside informed the reader that, because he owned three shares of, say, Microsoft Corp. stock some years

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  • June 5, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Letter: Fee-paid judiciary presents constitutional problems

    Cary Ichter is to be commended for his thoughts on a self-funding judiciary "A self-funding judiciary," May 28. However, two of his four planks-restitution by criminal defendants and a "tax"

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  • January 13, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Survey Points Up Big Firms' Increasing Diversity

    Slightly more than 2 percent of the lawyers at 23 of New York City's largest firms identify themselves as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to a New York County Lawyers' A

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  • March 3, 2003 | The Recorder

    Lawyer Discipline

    SUSPENSION FOR NOT PASSING PREThe following persons have been suspended by the State Bar Court for not passing the professional responsibility exam effective on the dates indica

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  • December 20, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Fired University Administrator Loses Appeal Over Editorial

    A university administrator fired for writing a newspaper editorial asserting that homosexuality is a choice has lost an appeal in her retaliation lawsuit against the school. The

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  • August 17, 2009 |

    Gaming

    Restricted gaming revenue, which accounts for 1 percent of a casino's total cash receipts after paying out winnings, must be awarded to the county, the municipality that hosts the casino or that mu

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  • June 3, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    Deep Freezing Terror's Assets

    In the last days of his term, former president Bill Clinton signed into law a little-noted bill that accomplished something quite unprecedented in our nation's history. The legislation -

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  • June 27, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Challenge to Compensation of Viacom Officials Proceeds

    A state judge in Manhattan has declined to dismiss a suit by Viacom shareholders alleging that the company's board of directors had paid its top three executives exorbitant compensation at the same

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  • June 6, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Davis Polk Corporate Partner Joins Latham Latham & Watkins has made a rare lateral partner recruitment from Davis Polk & Wardwell. Witold Balaban, w

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