• July 9, 2007 | Legal Times

    Conservatives Fear 4th Circuit Slipping Away

    When Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Arlen Specter asked that Leslie Southwick's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit be a href="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/20

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  • March 2, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Viewpoint: Partner Involvement Needed in Pro Bono Cases

    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Maples v. Thomas contains several important lessons and reminders for those of us who maintain an active pro bono practice at large law firm

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  • February 2, 2009 | Legal Times

    Justice Begins Stocking Ranks

    Eric Holder Jr. and David Ogden, two men who have split their time since the mid-1990s between Main Justice and Big Law, are drawing on that experience to recruit their top assist

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  • June 30, 2006 | Alm

    High Court Upholds Controversial Texas Redistricting Plan

    By a cascading series of mix-and-match majorities, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld most of the controversial mid-decade Texas Republican redistricting plan spearheaded by former Hou

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  • November 12, 2007 | Legal Times

    High Court May Shift in Cases Over Bad Lawyering

    The Supreme Court in 1984 established new standards for assessing whether a lawyer's performance was so bad that his or her client's right to a fair trial was compromised."An acc

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  • September 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    An Ornery Flock

    If this was the new look of harmony and consensus at the U.S. Supreme Court, it needs work. There, on the final day of the Court's term, June 29, was Justice John Paul Stevens, calmly

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  • March 3, 2008 | Legal Times

    Not Too Hot to Handle

    Like many issues before it, global warming has begun to cross over from the public-policy arena into litigation. In the last few years, a wide range of plaintiffs have brought actions ag

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  • January 13, 2003 | Legal Times

    January 2003 Docket Watch

    Below are the cases before the Supreme Court in the coming weeks and the lawyers who will argue them. "Docket Watch" appears at the beginning of each two-week argument cycle when the high c

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  • February 23, 2004 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky has promoted three associates to partner in Washington, D.C. Eric Bensky, 33, focuses on securities

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  • January 28, 2008 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF

    Unopposed Ill. judge to return campaign funds Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne M. Burke, a Democrat, will return some of the $1.48 million in campaign contributions she

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