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  • August 22, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Crack Resentencing Controversy Comes Before 11th Circuit

    Today, two of the most controversial issues in sentencing law -- the length of sentences for crack cocaine offenders and judges' ability to go outside the federal sentencing guidelines -- will inte

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  • February 20, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Bankruptcy and Arbitration: Like Oil and Vinegar?

    Uncertainty lurks at the crossroads of arbitration and bankruptcy law. It is well settled that bankruptcy courts will permit arbitration of non-bankruptcy issues, but when it comes to 

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  • August 8, 2006 | The Recorder

    Watching the Tech-Media Whirlwind

    Weil, Gotshal & Manges partner Kenneth Steinthal is at the center of the latest copyright battle to pit traditional media against emerging and established companies involved in online cont

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  • February 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Moves

    High-Flying Legal Eagles She had already reached cruising altitude, but now KRISTIN BROWN is ascending to new heights. At the end of November, gategroup Holdi

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  • December 5, 2005 | National Law Journal

    In Brief

    Head of DOJ tobacco trial team calls it quits The lead trial lawyer in the government's landmark lawsuit against the tobacco industry has quit the case and left the U.S. Departme

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  • April 6, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Attorney Found Guilty In Immigration Conspiracy An immigration lawyer and his wife were convicted Friday of conspiring to commit immigration fraud by coachi

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  • August 1, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Federal Circuit rules that isolated human genes are patentable

    Isolated human genes are patentable subject matter, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled in a closely watched controversial case. The divided July 29 panel ruli

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  • August 4, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Juries may take up future damages in patent cases

    Lawyers for patent infringement cases in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas were put on notice this month that juries in their trials may take up the question of &q

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  • June 28, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    New Task Force The name of Jay W. Burnett, a retired senior criminal district court judge in Harris County and adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law in Houston, went i

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  • January 13, 2009 | National Law Journal

    A Circuit Ripe for a Remake

    The fate of high-stakes legal battles over intellectual property law is the prize for those in the early jockeying to fill looming vacancies for as many as half of the 12 judges on the Federal Circ

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