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  • October 3, 2005 | New York Law Journal

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    Law Firm to Pay Part of KPMG Tax Shelter Settlement Law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and accounting firm KPMG have agreed to pay $225 million to settle class actio

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  • December 10, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Patent malpractice claims hit firms

    The high level of liability exposure in patent work and the growing complexity of the practice area are making law firms increasingly vulnerable to malpractice lawsuits that blame attorn

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  • October 5, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Star turn for Hollywood newcomers

    When Summit Entertainment LLC needed an attorney to help promote its new vampire movie, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, General Counsel David Friedman turned to someone he knew w

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  • June 12, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Silver's Counsel Arrested on Rape ChargesOne of the most prominent lawyers in state government — J. Michael Boxley, counsel to the Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver —

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  • March 20, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Panel Reinstates Lawsuit by Lawyer Against Banks

    The Appellate Division, First Department, has reinstated the lawsuit of a lawyer against several Wall Street banks for allegedly conspiring to block a form of airport financing she devised. L

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  • May 22, 2007 | Daily Business Review

    Departing Squire Sanders Shareholders Raise Issues

    Shareholders who have left the Florida offices of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey recently are raising issues about what they see as the law firm's centralized control and lack of support for their p

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  • October 15, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Toward True Deterrence of Government Misconduct

    On July 6, Law Journal columnists Elkan Abramowitz and Barry Bohrer discussed three recent Eastern District decisions involving perjurious or discredited testimony of government witnesses,sup

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  • June 25, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Corruption law use limited

    A U.S. Supreme Court opinion Thursday narrowing the scope of the honest services fraud law will significantly affect the way federal prosecutors attack public corruption, South Florida attorneys sa

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  • June 30, 2003 | Legal Times

    How University Got Support of Military Leaders

    It began four years ago in a private conversation between James Cannon, a retired journalist and political operative, and former President Gerald Ford, whom Cannon served as a domestic a

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  • September 25, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Post-'Rapanos' Rulings

    In a July senate hearing examining the effect of the recent U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Rapanos v. U.S., 126 S. Ct. 2208 (2006), on federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA

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