• November 19, 2007 | Legal Times

    Liberal Lawyers Strike Back — Slowly

    When Lisa Brown was a student at University of Chicago Law School in the early 1980s, some of her right-leaning peers got together and started a little conservative law club. Brown

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  • April 5, 2010 | National Law Journal

    NLJ Appellate Hot List

    The National Law Journal's annual Appellate Hot List denotes law firms that made singular contributions to appellate practice during the past year. We asked our readers to nominate

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  • May 17, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    First State Blues

    Its Blue and Gold license plate proclaims Delaware to be "The First State," but a more up-to-date slogan might be "The First Corporate Enabler." I found myse

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  • July 19, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New Partners Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton (Los Angles): Daniel Seikaly, the chief of the criminal division for the U.S. attorney's office of the District of

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  • January 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Litigation Department of the Year 2006: The Lifesavers

    The last two years were a crucible for Citigroup Inc., the New York-based financial services behemoth and the biggest client of the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Whar

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  • January 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    The Lifesavers

    The last two years were a crucible for Citigroup Inc., the New York-based financial services behemoth and the biggest client of the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &

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  • September 1, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Mass. case may be key in gay marriage fight

    While the high-profile, Ted Olson- and David Boies-managed legal fight against California's Proposition 8 captures headlines, a carefully planned case quietly underway in Massachusetts federa

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  • May 4, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Before Joining Bench, Stevens Molded Antitrust Law

    On April 9, Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court. Stevens, 90, has served on the high court for nearly 35 years — the fourth longest tenure in the c

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  • June 27, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Civil Rights Groups Celebrate Rulings By Supreme Court

    The U.S. Supreme Court's rulings Wednesday on same-sex marriage were met with cheers of "victory" from civil rights organizations nationwide, while conservative gro

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  • July 10, 2006 | Alm

    Presiding Over a House Divided

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

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